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Iow, "get over" your own pious nonseriousness, posing as something more than it is, and cease shoving your own intolerance and prejudicial views down others 'throats.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Writing a book about serious ideas for the general reader was common a hundred or more years ago, but today it lays you open to a charge of nonseriousness.
The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009
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But more often, and almost exclusively by the 1990s, Mr. Nielsen showed up in movies, series and commercials, representing in his own archetypal silver-haired persona an ideal of genial, deadpan nonseriousness.
NYT > Home Page By A. O. SCOTT 2010
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or that anything is all right -- smacks of overenthusiasm and nonseriousness and other journalistic no-no's.
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or that anything is all right -- smacks of overenthusiasm and nonseriousness and other journalistic no-no's.
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