21.   Clinton has faced an escalating series of serious accusations--serious in the sense that they were all plausible and some were true.

22.   Despite his bizarre onscreen personae, Guest seems surprisingly serious in person.

23.   Discussions became serious in June.

24.   Fully clothed, waist deep in the water and vainly brandishing weapons, they seem more absurd than serious in their threat to the Church.

25.   He plays Sonny, a Southern preacher of vast charm and volcanic energy, as serious in his faith as he is flawed in nature.

26.   He is certainly serious in his general view.

27.   He was more serious in discussing the play of Barton in that game.

28.   Iranian Oil Minister Gholamreza Aghazadeh said Azerbaijan was serious in offering Iran a stake in its offshore Shakdeniz oil field in the Caspian Sea.

29.   It is part of a larger sexual scandal that the Army regards as the most serious in its history.

30.   It made me more serious in everything in the life of a professional athlete.