Morally serious people can have different views of his personal culpability.

They are proud, independent and strong-willed; they are worldly-wise and morally serious.

After Leavis, students and teachers of English need no longer feel that their activities were trivial: on the contrary, theirs was the only morally serious university subject.

To quote the late Mr Hitchens: "Can you for one second be morally serious?"

Previously a thoughtful, morally serious woman, she increasingly became a vocal racist and anti-Semite.

In general, the joke only has moral value in the mouth of a morally serious person.

I think the American people will see this through, but they want a pragmatic, strategically optimistic, morally serious plan to get behind.

She contributed to and supported as an editor Scrutiny (1932-1951), an influential journal that sought to promote a stringent and morally serious approach to literary criticism.

When Blevins's mischievous bluster lands him in morally serious trouble, the film finds its only genuine moment of strong feeling.

Her personality was more mercurial than Steve's, at once quick-witted and morally serious.