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  • adjective solemn

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  • adjective acting with or showing thought and good sense

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Examples

  • But the state's egg producers, who confine about 6 million birds, could not get to a place where they supported a serious-minded animal welfare reform in egg production.

    Wayne Pacelle: Cage-Free Campaign Takes Wing in Washington State Wayne Pacelle 2011

  • So in those portraits, she comes across as a very - almost frightening-looking, serious-minded woman.

    Cleopatra: 'A Life' Misunderstood 2010

  • With the loss, however, an element of Salita—a serious-minded 29-year-old with a wife and baby daughter—seems to have snapped.

    The Long Road Back From Boxing Oblivion 2011

  • But the state's egg producers, who confine about 6 million birds, could not get to a place where they supported a serious-minded animal welfare reform in egg production.

    Wayne Pacelle: Cage-Free Campaign Takes Wing in Washington State Wayne Pacelle 2011

  • While critics and the tamer movie fans dismiss horror movies, I tend to give them a more serious-minded consideration.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • The serious-minded, athletic power forward is expected to be a 20-point, 10-rebound player.

    Team-by-team analysis: T'wolves have guards covered 2009

  • As the impetus for group forming matures from Justin Bieber fan clubs and funny kitty videos to more serious-minded groups of craftspeople, office workers, skilled laborers and temp workers, watch out.

    Tom Hayes: Will Facebook Replace Labor Unions? Tom Hayes 2011

  • As the impetus for group forming matures from Justin Bieber fan clubs and funny kitty videos to more serious-minded groups of craftspeople, office workers, skilled laborers and temp workers, watch out.

    Tom Hayes: Will Facebook Replace Labor Unions? Tom Hayes 2011

  • Something more tangible than "appreciation" has to be the fruit of literary study or it does indeed become such a "soft" discipline that few serious-minded students will want to pursue it and even fewer scholars from other disciplines will consider it a respectable practice.

    Principles of Literary Criticism 2010

  • While critics and the tamer movie fans dismiss horror movies, I tend to give them a more serious-minded consideration.

    Fave Five: Horror Flicks 2009

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