The phrase
"deadly seriousness" means taking something very seriously or being extremely serious about a particular matter.
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«deadly»
«seriousness»
Sentences with «deadly seriousness»
- He may be a hell - raiser off the job but he takes his notification work with deadly seriousness. (csmonitor.com)
- Writer - director Thom Eberhardt (Captain Ron, The Night Before), who had just come off of a similar survivalist horror tale, Sole Survivor, imbues his film with a tongue planted firmly in his cheek, and a genuine love for the various B - movie genres that gives the film the necessary sense of fun needed in order to not get bogged down in deadly seriousness that would have done the film in for sure. (qwipster.net)
- Then, when you read them more, you start to realize that there's a kind of deadly seriousness about the whole thing.» (artspace.com)
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