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Example sentences for: seriousness

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Will picks over the interview Bush gave to Talk , seeing it as suggesting that Bush "has a seriousness deficit."
A national phone survey found that blacks were more likely than whites to report that their physician did not inquire sufficiently about their illness, did not tell them how long it would take for prescribed medicine to work, did not explain the seriousness of their illness or injury and did not discuss test or examination findings.
Today, the seriousness is missing.
Billed as the first feature film by Native Americans, this picaresque tale wins reviewers' admiration for being "palpably authentic" (Richard Schickel, Time ). Critics like the story, about a young man and his friend who set out to retrieve his father's ashes, for eschewing "the high seriousness and dubious mysticism" of most films about the Indians' plight (John Anderson, Newsday ). Although everyone enjoys its wry humor and cutting observations about life on the reservation, a few say its aimless plot betrays its makers' inexperience.
The New York Board of Education's "Citywide Standards of Conduct and Uniform Disciplinary Measures," an eight page brochure issued to all students, lists 37 infractions in ascending order of seriousness.