And, I ask, as a serious commentator on the art of late-20th-Century rock and roll: what's it?

Kelly is a serious commentator who makes some excellent points about Scottish lit.

No serious commentator with even the vaguest grasp of the facts on the ground would have been surprised, in fact they weren't.

Almost no serious commentator gave Major a chance after 13 years of divisive Conservative rule.

Of course, music appreciation long ago became a derogatory term, the very idea plausibly reviled by serious commentators as a vulgar and useless alternative to musical education.

Most serious commentators regarded the German move, which had long been anticipated by British and French foreign policy experts and military leaders, as a necessary one.

The people who pretend to be serious commentators who wrote about this are among the most ignorant I've ever heard in my life.

Although a serious political commentator (i.e., his site is not satire), bartcop sometimes describes himself as primarily a comedian.

I know of no serious commentator on the Middle East who argues that we would all be better served if the Palestinian authority was brought to its knees.

This is very undignified and if I were a serious commentator I would here decry such silliness.