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Jeers to Two and a Half Men for treating its star's dead-serious self-destruction as a joke.
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While not set in Discworld (for plot reasons that are obvious in retrospect), Nation fits the Pratchett template: a rather farcical background, a quip-infused text, and a narrative as carefully crafted as in any dead-serious novel.
Stromata Blog: 2009
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What comes out of the European art scene tends to take itself dead-serious.
Carmen Zella: GERMANY on the STREETS of LA Carmen Zella 2010
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While not set in Discworld (for plot reasons that are obvious in retrospect), Nation fits the Pratchett template: a rather farcical background, a quip-infused text, and a narrative as carefully crafted as in any dead-serious novel.
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What comes out of the European art scene tends to take itself dead-serious.
Carmen Zella: GERMANY on the STREETS of LA Carmen Zella 2010
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What comes out of the European art scene tends to take itself dead-serious.
Carmen Zella: GERMANY on the STREETS of LA Carmen Zella 2010
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In fact, though, he was something completely different, a dead-serious artist who enjoyed playing well-crafted music that was accessible to a popular audience.
Both Good and Popular Terry Teachout 2011
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After winning a 2005 Tony as Best Actor for the knock-down, drag-out drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? he's landed gutwrenching roles on a pair of dead-serious shows.
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What comes out of the European art scene tends to take itself dead-serious.
Carmen Zella: GERMANY on the STREETS of LA Carmen Zella 2010
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He also makes for a welcome respite from too much dead-serious Jedi-speak.
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