Sentences with phrase «high moral seriousness»

Most test - of - faith pictures are painfully solemn, even Ingmar Bergman — esque, but writer - director John Michael McDonagh is the brother of playwright (now also filmmaker) Martin McDonagh, and they share a penchant for high moral seriousness enlivened — often jarringly — by an antic Hibernian spirit.

Accordingly, the common life of a theological school that educates those who lead and nurture communities of Christians in that life must in high moral seriousness focus above all on the nature and demands of that activity and on analysis of the society in which it must be lived.

Not exact matches

However much I admired its moral seriousness and formal audacity, Funny Games struck me as the work of a presumptuous lecturer who couldn't fathom that the movie's audience might actually be as smart and ethical as its high - minded maker.