Pure landscape, like pure still-life or genre painting, reflected an aesthetic viewpoint regarded as lacking in moral seriousness.

Some lost faith in themselves, concluding that a lack of moral seriousness in intellectual culture had been the cause of the rebellion.

#: When one of his wife Paola's students comes to visit him with an interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, Commissario Brunetti thinks little of it, beyond being intrigued and attracted by the girl's intelligence and moral seriousness.

Erik Bruhn was a complete dancer-a far cry from the highly specialized artist he was often made out to be ... His moral example to the rest of ballet came through the concentration and seriousness with which he committed himself to every role.

" This " undertow of moral seriousness provides a crucial tension within novels, but it does not dominate them.

Charles Solomon, a writer for The New York Times and Los Angeles Times, admired the moral seriousness of Gon, a quality that gives the protagonist " an appeal his relentlessly upbeat counterparts lack ".

He published little, and established no school, but was revered for his extraordinary intelligence and moral seriousness.

I was impressed by the underlying moral seriousness.

" The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

' Although he later recanted, this episode was illustrative of Herbert Lewis ' moral seriousness.

Writer Matthew Ross cited White's " unrelenting tone of moral seriousness, caustic dismissal of [...] filmic sacred cows and obsessive championing of [...] relatively ' unhip ' films " as well as his " unlikely compare-and-contrast reviews " as distinctive characteristics of his work.

If at any time the risk from any hazard poses a significant danger ( as a factor of likelihood and seriousness ) to the rescuer, they should consider whether they should approach the scene ( or leave the scene if appropriate ).

If at any time the risk from any hazard poses a significant danger ( as a factor of likelihood and seriousness ) to the rescuer, they should consider whether they should approach the scene ( or leave the scene if appropriate ).

However, the potential seriousness of the shock depends on paths through the body that the currents take.

The seniority of the judge depends on the seriousness and complexity of the case.

The standard used depends on the seriousness of the encroachment.

In criminal cases, this depends on the seriousness of the offence.

It maintains a tone of light seriousness, and it depends on the caper for too much of its entertainment value.

Also, in other states such as Washington, the minimum age depends on the seriousness of the crime.

With colleges and universities carrying a large part of the program, and with students looking toward Peace Corps service, there will be an impact on educational curriculum and student seriousness.

The `` belaboring '' is of course jocular, yet James was not lacking in fundamental seriousness -- unless we measure him by that ultimate seriousness of the great religious leader or thinker who stakes all on his vision of God.

The defense counsel will then make a " plea in mitigation " ( also called " submissions on penalty ") wherein he or she will attempt to mitigate the relative seriousness of the offense and heavily refer to and rely upon the defendant's previous good character and good works ( if any ).

Violations of these rules may be ruled " fouls " by the referee, who may issue warnings, deduct points, or disqualify an offending boxer, causing an automatic loss, depending on the seriousness and intentionality of the foul.

One can categorise crimes depending on the related punishment, with sentencing tariffs prescribed in line with the perceived seriousness of the offence.

This system was based on the perceived seriousness of the offence.

The Oxford English Dictionary ( first edition ) associates it with such onomatopoeic words as flit and flick, emphasizing a lack of seriousness ; on the other hand, it has been attributed to the old French conter fleurette, which means " to ( try to ) seduce " by the dropping of flower petals, that is, " to speak sweet nothings ".

On 3 May 2011, Michael O ' Flaherty with the United Nations Human Rights Committee published General Comment No. 34 on the ICCPR, which among other comments expresses concern that many forms of " hate speech " do not meet the level of seriousness set out in Article 20.

Monroe had been formally expelled from France on his last diplomatic mission, and the choice to send him again conveyed a sense of seriousness.

Friedman wrote extensively on the Great Depression, which he termed the Great Contraction, arguing that it had been caused by an ordinary financial shock whose duration and seriousness were greatly increased by the subsequent contraction of the money supply caused by the misguided policies of the directors of the Federal Reserve.

To demonstrate her seriousness against multi-national companies in Nigeria that violated the economic / trade embargo on the South African regime, the local operations of Barclays Bank was nationalized after that bank ignored the strong protests by Nigeria urging it not to buy the South African government bond.

As of 2003, it consists of 134 professional soldiers carrying on their 500 year old tradition with all the seriousness and élan of their predecessors.

A newspaper article printed in 1887 reveals the seriousness of his claim, stating the lab contained " eight thousand kinds of chemicals, every kind of screw made, every size of needle, every kind of cord or wire, hair of humans, horses, hogs, cows, rabbits, goats, minx, camels ... silk in every texture, cocoons, various kinds of hoofs, shark's teeth, deer horns, tortoise shell ... cork, resin, varnish and oil, ostrich feathers, a peacock's tail, jet, amber, rubber, all ores ..." and the list goes on.

The Court of Appeal confirmed a sentence of nine months ' imprisonment to reflect the seriousness of the abuse of trust and the traumatic effect on the victims.

To accept jail penitently as an accession to ' the rules ' is to switch suddenly to a spirit of subservience, to demean the seriousness of the protest ... In particular, the neo-conservative insistence on a guilty plea should be eliminated.

Thus Rambling Syd Rumpo may say " Green grows the grunge on my Lady's posset ", making it difficult to approach the murder scene in Macbeth ( Lady Macbeth: " I have drugged their possets ") with the seriousness it deserved.

The Court is made up of a Judge Advocate, and between three and seven ( depending on the seriousness of the offence ) officers and warrant officers.

Oliver argues that in the speech, there is no clear evidence of either seriousness or irony but instead " this lecture by Kate on the wife's duty to submit is the only fitting climax to the farce – and for that very reason it cannot logically be taken seriously, orthodox though the views expressed may be [...] attempting to take the last scene as a continuation of the realistic portrayal of character leads some modern producers to have it played as a kind of private joke between Petruchio and Kate – or even have Petruchio imply that by now he is thoroughly ashamed of himself.

His speech was dignified, but he engaged in repartee on occasion and his seriousness did not exclude a sense of humour.

Susan Sontag argued in her 1964 Notes on " Camp " that camp was an attraction to the human qualities which expressed themselves in " failed attempts at seriousness ", the qualities of having a particular and unique style, and of reflecting the sensibilities of the era.

A major influence on Reed's recording, and an important source for an understanding of Reed's seriousness with the album, was the mid-1960s drone music work of La Monte Young's Theater of Eternal Music ( whose members included John Cale, Tony Conrad, Angus Maclise and Marian Zazeela ).< ref > The album listed ( misspelling included ) " Drone cognizance and harmonic possibilities vis a vis Lamont 74465 99752 2 ( reissue ).

The letter ( still cited in all seriousness in a number of textbooks ) was apparently a response to a report on the phenomenon of vaginismus reported three weeks previously in the Philadelphia Medical News by Osler ’ s colleague Theophilus Parvin.

Finally appraised of the seriousness of the situation, Edward II had on 1 September ordered an assembly of the leading Anglo-Irish, which met at Parliament in Dublin in late October, but no decisive action was taken.

Though Sartre's conclusion seems to be that being diminishes before nothingness since consciousness is probably based more on spontaneity than on stable seriousness, he contends that any person of a serious nature is obligated to continuous struggle between: