From what I can see by the feedback, even hard-core readers (not to mention serious-minded conservatives everywhere) were aghast.
As the contemporary-art market roared upwards in the 1980s, serious-minded connoisseur collectors were joined by multi-millionaires with huge amounts of disposable income.
To serious-minded 17th Century men and women, the ephemeral bloom of the gorgeous tulip, and the high price attached to it, symbolised the moral dilemma of conspicuous spending.
Justin Chang, Variety: This hugely ambitious action-drama nonetheless retains the moral urgency and serious-minded pulp instincts that have made the Warners franchise a beacon of integrity in an increasingly comicbook-driven Hollywood universe.
The report has plenty of comfort for more serious-minded journalists, as well as for the campaigning groups, scientists and others who worry about the chilling effect of libel law on press freedom.
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It also seems unlikely that a foreign government would have got involved in such an escapade, though some normally serious-minded Ukrainians believe that America is eager to replace Mr Kuchma with Mr Yushchenko.
But she is so good to look at and so forthright about her sexuality that some of the band's serious-minded natural audience suspect she is a pop starlet on the make, like Rihanna or the pitiable Britney Spears.
These corporations tend to see Africa simply as the bottom of the supply chain rather than a market for serious, business-minded investments.
This almost absent-minded gorging had serious mental consequences.
Yet to widespread surprise, including his family's, Mr Chandler soon set about turning the Times into a serious, intelligent and broadly fair-minded paper better suited to the increasingly varied people now pouring into southern California, not all of whom were as vacuous and unlettered as their reputation supposed.
But for now, neither Ibrahim Rugova, the ethnic Albanians' peace-minded leader, nor Mr Milosevic seems willing or able to talk serious peace terms.
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