serieux

• A natural aesthete, heritage warrior and homme serieux with a glint of mischief, he had already visited all 300 National Trust houses while researching his magnificent tome —  Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
• Ram Zenit: "Le probleme c'est que des foules les prennent au serieux!" septembre 14, 2008 à 18: 12 —  ExtremeCentre.org
• This is not abhorrence of French, but abhorrence of the mangling of the language by those who don't know it, and the misuse by those who know it but want to impress their audience by sounding "profond," "serieux," "malin", etc ... always trying to make an effect even if they have to torture the language. —  StrategyPage.com
• I barely got a seat for the Tolstoi play, and the doorkeeper said that the house was always sold out The Bulgarians, in short, are simple, and what the Rumanians would call "serieux"--you must abandon all notion of finding here anything like the little comic-opera kingdoms invented by some of our novelists. —  Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them
• The French were enlightened, he said, but without morals, the English civilized but jealous; if he had any sons he would send them to America, the only place where young men were both civilized and properly "serieux." —  Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them

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