serious-mindedness

He delivered the Ives with unusual clarity and utter serious-mindedness.

The abiding impression is of stillness, silence and serious-mindedness.

The worry with the new tabloids is that they represent yet another step on the British papers' long, steady march away from serious-mindedness and toward entertainment.

Her husband admired her serious-mindedness, and at the same time saw that her absence of humour held comic promise for his act.

In its balance of ambition and abandon, serious-mindedness and ebullience, there's a crystallization of what jazz, at its best, is about.

His drily funny commentary can't hide a serious-mindedness, and he encourages, rather than undercuts, the reverence in which his once-anarchic comedies are now held.

A lot of that serious-mindedness can be attributed to how Ms. Flores, 49, has raised Kevin and his brother, Ashton, 13, despite their tumultuous childhoods.

With a serious-mindedness that belies its whimsical appearance, these games brilliantly embody the essence of Hayao Miyazaki's directorial ethos.

In his spare time — have we made the point that his serious-mindedness is a rarity in Hollywood? — he has been pursuing a grad certificate in international security from Stanford.

How England could have used his professionalism – his reliability, his application, his serious-mindedness – in New Zealand, for there are precious few senior players capable of bringing those qualities to bear in quite the same way.