serious-minded

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• The pulps brought new readers to serious fiction, making it less intimidating with alluring art and low prices.

• I like the idea of Jon Hamm… There have been discussions—though I'm not sure how serious they've been.

• Whatever the reason, and however absurd their beliefs may seem, American evangelicals are deadly serious.

• He said it was okay, that he had been busy too… busy fighting serious intestinal problems.

• The “nature of the crime” was too serious to release him, they said.

• Joe looked at her with a smile, his face still solemn and serious for all its youth and the fires of new-lit hope behind his eyes.

• It is the dramatic impulse of childhood endeavouring to bring life into the dulness of the serious hours.

• Between South and North, the probabilities of a serious, and no very distant rupture, are strong and manifest.

• They will reach you by the hands of Mr. Mackenzie, a worldly-minded Scotch merchant, but honest as to earthly things.

• Never then was there a moment in which there was greater need for sane and serious thought.