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semi-serious and is
The program is the second attempt of Bailey to produce a semi-serious nature documentary and it has received good reviews.
The tension implicit in this uncommitted tone is reminiscent of a flirt, and in fact, the semi-serious, semi-ironic form is ideally suited to Ovid's subject matter.
During a light-hearted, semi-serious dialogue, he asks her to marry him, and she agrees, although he is in the navy and will be away on his ship for six months before they can marry.
The building is one of the semi-serious visionary buildings meant to be an alternative to the increasing urban sprawl occurring in most cities.

semi-serious and if
Apparently, despite losing one of his tin legs in the aircraft, Bader, in a semi-serious way, asked if they wouldn't mind if he took it on a test flight around the airfield.

semi-serious and for
a semi-serious introduction admitted that while Reader A reads the tabloid for real news, Reader B will read it for laughs.
In the early 1970s, the Imagineers gave some semi-serious thought to resurrecting many of the creatures and effects that Rolly Crump had originally created for the Haunted Mansion's pre-show as part of Professor Marvel's Gallery, which was "... a tent show of mysteries and delights, a carousel of magic and wonder ".
Sports broadcaster Howard Cosell hosted or co-hosted almost all of the specials, and commented on the action with a semi-serious version of the style for which he was famous.
With his depression making it difficult for him to work, Linder returned to France in 1922 and shortly afterwards made a semi-serious film: Au Secours!

semi-serious and on
* April 24 – Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels makes a semi-serious on-air offer to pay the Beatles $ 3000 to reunite live on the show.

semi-serious and .
However, 18th century theatrical dance had at least two other styles: comic or grotesque, and semi-serious.
In the early 1940s, Siskiyou County was home to the semi-serious State of Jefferson movement, which sought to create a new state from several counties of northern California, and several counties of southern Oregon.
He has also written a body of serious or semi-serious work, including stage plays such as An Evening with Gary Lineker.
By the time of editor Graham Taylor, the magazine included the cartoon character Kamikaze Bear, and the tone of the publication changed from a semi-serious magazine to something aimed more at children.
For the most part, these adventures were done with a semi-serious slant, with a goodly portion of action and comedy mixed in.
Matt had previously played in the local group We Ate Plato and was presently a member of Honcho Overload ; Andy had performed in the semi-serious live band Obvious Man and had studio experience with Designer Mustard Gas.
Drummer Steve Jocz stated that they wanted a semi-serious video.

literary and document
A false document is a literary technique employed to create verisimilitude in a work of fiction.
It is not known when Yiddish came to be written down, but the oldest surviving literary document in Yiddish is a blessing in the Worms mahzor, a Hebrew prayer book from 1272 ( with a scalable image online at the indicated reference ; described extensively in Frakes, 2004 and Baumgarten / Frakes, 2005 ):
A lost work is a document or literary work produced some time in the past of which no surviving copies are known to exist.
This is because we must rely on literary, interpretative accounts of performance practice in those days before such time as audio recording was implemented, and even then, only a composer's personal or sanctioned recording could directly document usage.
The Jewish Encyclopedia cites a 12th-century Karaite document as the earliest Jewish literary source to mention the symbol.
The first literary reference to Nokia is in a 1505 document in connection with the Nokia Manor.
It is among the first non-religious Romanian literary texts ; due to its size and the information that it contains it is, probably, the most important Romanian document from the 17th century.
Bruce Mitchell notes that “ The Dream of the Rood ” isthe central literary document for understanding resolution of competing cultures which was the presiding concern of the Christian Anglo-Saxons ”.
Specifically excluded from epigraphy are the historical significance of an epigraph as a document and the artistic value of a literary composition.
After Lewinsky revealed to Tripp that she had been in a physical relationship with President Clinton, Tripp, acting on the advice of literary agent Lucianne Goldberg, began to secretly record phone conversations with Lewinsky while encouraging Lewinsky to document details of her relationship with the president.
The Catalan translation of this document is the oldest literary text found in that language ( c. 1150 ).
James then went to England for about a year, and returned in 1838 to New York, where he prepared an edition of Robert Sandeman's Letters on Theron and Aspasio, which has been called the principal literary document of a Scottish sect that opposed the Presbyterian Church.
The Documentary Hypothesis and the Composition of the Pentateuch offers itself as an elegantly phrased examination of the " five pillars " of the Documentary Hypothesis: 1, the claim that the use of the divine names Yahweh and Elohim testified to at least two different authors and two entirely distinct source documents ; 2, the claim that each literary style and distinctive grammatical usage found in the Pentateuch must be viewed as the product of a different writer and distinct " document "; 3, the claim that there were different world-views, theologies and ethics in each of the hypothesized documents, each independent and not complementary to each other, proving their different authorship and provenance ; 4, the claim that the existence of repetitions and even seeming contradictions proved there were different documents cut-and-pasted into the text, sometimes even as bits and pieces within single sentences ; and 5, the claim that descriptive passages can be analyzed into composite narratives drawing upon overlapping but different documents.
Archaeology now supplements literary sources to document the transformation followed by collapse of cities in the Mediterranean basin.
2533, where a literary text dated to the early second century in a hand very close to < sup > 52 </ sup > has been written on the back of a re-used document in a late first century business hand.
Levin was one of the first American journalists to become aware of the existence of Anne Frank's diary, and he was also one of the first people to recognize the literary and dramatic potential of this document ; he wrote the book review, which appeared on the front page of the New York Times Sunday Book Review.
In Airframe, as in most of his novels, Crichton uses the false document literary device, presenting numerous technical documents to create a sense of authenticity.
Additionally, friendship albums and school yearbooks afforded girls in the 18th and 19th centuries an outlet through which to share their literary skills, and allowed girls an opportunity to document their own personalized historical record previously not readily available to them.
This literary and photographic record of life under Joseph Stalin's rule is a valuable historical document.
It goes on to document Michael Field as a figure, amongst ' his ' literary counterparts, and a pet dog.
It's a parody of the old literary technique of the false document found by chance, probably influenced by the fact that, in real life, Álex de la Iglesia writes his film scripts on a laptop computer, which he's lost at least twice.
A literary agent persuaded Dyer to document his theories in his first book called Your Erroneous Zones.
This letter is considered the first document of the Brazilian history as much as its first literary text.
It probably is the only literary document from within Dar al-Manasir.

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