Sentences with phrase «deadly serious»

What follows is playful, but also deadly serious in a laugh - out - loud way.

It's all make - believe, of course — but with deadly serious purpose.

The rest of us should simply laugh — and would, if this weren't so deadly serious.

When you're dealing with the end of the world, things can get deadly serious.

But it also tells a story about the premier's deadly serious approach to defining himself against his rival for the Number 10 crown.

I should have been more clear that I think we'd be better off if theologians were more playful and less deadly serious.

I was being deadly serious whereas anti was not being serious in the least.

Even... The military and its supporting defence industry are quite literally deadly serious.

Here he becomes deadly serious and the role suffers just a little bit because of it.

One case that I dealt with involved deadly serious death threats between academic colleagues.

And although we're deadly serious about the business of law, we don't take ourselves too seriously.

They're so deadly serious, it gets dull after a while.

What starts as a lark turns deadly serious as the number of players is whittled down, temptations beckon, and the bonds between partners strain and unravel.

These are deadly serious issues.

Dining hierarchy is, after all, deadly serious business: priests at the top, then Levites, then other people according to rank.

But we get deadly serious when McCarthy uses one of our favorite words to describe the newish site he produces for Santa Clara, Calif. - based Yahoo! Inc..

Our theory is that people actually want both (which is why we try to balance the fun and the serious here in film conversations) and the celebrities that are best equipped to actually deal with tonight's mood are probably the celebrities who are inherently «fun» but can also turn deadly serious without feeling like a buzzkill.

Where «Mirror Mirror» was more whimsical and silly, like a big budgeted version of a 1970s Hallmark Movie of the Week, «Snow White and the Huntsman» is very dark and serious... deadly serious at times.

The problem, though, much of it is supposed to be taken deadly serious, but the situations are so patently ridiculous, the acting is so far over the top, the characters are so cliché and the denouement so violently ludicrous that one has no choice but snicker their way through this drivel — just to get through it.

Peter Yates, director of the acclaimed films Bullitt and Breaking Away, has a hard time handling the sometimes jarring mix of zany comedy and deadly serious drama, never really making a real impact in either department enough for the tone to gel.

Goofy, to be sure, these fiercely civilized abstractions are also deadly serious about putting painting's repressed pleasures back into the picture.

Finally, in 1 Samuel 15, we read of a very humorous, but deadly serious story.

Externalization, a linguistic practice at the core of this approach, is inherently playful and lighthearted even in the face of deadly serious problems.

Winging between deadly serious starts (this is a film that opens with an incinerated baby, for chrissakes), heartbreaking lost loves, kingdom - destroying action scenes and Blunt and Theron yelling at each other to the point of camp, the film never even comes close to striking a balance.

Square - jawed and always deadly serious, Shannon exemplifies exactly the person you don't want knocking on your door.

For Leff, readers «can attest to the rhetorical power of this blend,» of mixing «playful attacks against the professional and philosophical pursuits (but not the persons)» of the prosecutors, including the powerful Cato, «deadly serious emotional appeals,» and «deft maneuvering around the specific legal issues.»

What was hitherto a notional understanding becomes a full - blown, deadly serious reality.

And if you want to amuse yourself for an hour, look at the first few issues of their journal The Philosophical Transaction, filled with deadly serious experiments and a whole lot of various sort of flakey, gentlemanly figures who sent in all kinds of, well, just observations.

After a heist intended to pay off Standard's protection money spins unpredictably out of control, Driver finds himself driving defense for the girl he loves, tailgated by a syndicate of deadly serious criminals (Albert Brooks and Ron Perlman).

It all fades quickly, however, into deadly serious sequences of people being devoured, crushed, baked, tossed about, stabbed, killed by bees, falling to their deaths, torn asunder and castles and cities being sieged, uprooted and demolished.

Everything in the film has deadly serious consequences — every smile, every look, and every action of Katniss (the always excellent Jennifer Lawrence) carefully considered and used for or against her, and these stakes, big or small, are pitched perfectly.

When you watch each of these characters being interviewed, you might think of the movie riffs on speed - dating in which each guy gets a limited time to define himself and moves on to the next — except that Father James hears deadly serious and mordant cries of despair.

Half of the film is played deadly serious, while the other half swerves back and forth between camp and broad comedy.

Director Gillespie infuses «I, Tonya» with a risky mix of dark comedy, deadly serious dramatic moments and having its characters often breaking the fourth wall to speak directly to the audience.

He successfully mocks suicide bombers in an otherwise deadly serious film.

THE WITCH Deadly serious, and utterly committed to its period of 17th century New World puritan misery.

Josh Brolin brings the same intensity to the character of Cable that he delivers in deadly serious roles in films such as «No Country For Old Men» and «Sicario,» and that makes for a great and fascinating performance.

But for all Watkins» sincere statements that Bastille Day has nothing to do with terrorism, the spectre of 2015's devastating attacks in the French capital looms large over a film that evokes deadly serious subject matter (the Occupy movement, immigration policy, anti-police protests) to no real purpose.

We can deduce that the town has been stricken by some remarkable phenomenon, potentially airborne contagious and at the very least deadly serious.

Here's how deadly serious Audi is about boosting the R8's supercar bona fides: The V10 Plus model, the one just about anyone can buy — as long as you have the requisite...

Crouching with its 0.8 - inch lower stance on the pit lane at Sonoma Raceway in Northern California, the new RS5 looked mechanically imposing and a little menacing, and the sounds it made when it started up and accelerated away onto the track fully backed up the car's deadly serious specifications.

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Wasn't Damien Hirst deadly serious when he floated that shark in a tank of formaldehyde?

The most fascinating response was that of Philip Guston, who seemed to come out of the other side of abstraction into an alternative world of figuration, ironic, often amusing, but at heart deadly serious about human failure, and how hollow the pose of artistic heroism had become.