How to Use serious-minded in a Sentence

serious-minded

adjective
  • But a bigger problem is that his earnest, hard-working performance can’t help but utilize the same tools now familiar from much less serious-minded contexts.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Gore then spent eight years earning a reputation as a smart, serious-minded governing partner to Clinton.
    — Time, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Despite decades of asking them in online forums, on social media and to search engines, humans still seem to have an infinite supply of these less-than-serious-minded queries.
    — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Still, this is an admirably serious-minded attempt to go inside a troubled community that most of us would go out of our way to avoid — showing compassion for a struggle that can frequently be one step forward, two steps back.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The number of places in the world where someone can earn a living making serious-minded fine art has shrunk drastically—now the number of places where people go to prison for rigorous creative action is rising at an alarming speed.
    — Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Consider the career arc of Lane Monte Kiffin, son of esteemed and very serious-minded defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 28 Nov. 2025
  • In this more serious-minded (and Madea-free) movie from Perry, Idris Elba plays Monty, a hard-working father who loses custody of his daughters to his drug-addled wife (Tasha Smith).
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Shane Hollander, the serious-minded captain of the Montreal Meteors, and star and playboy Ilya Rozanov of the Boston Bears are played by Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie, respectively.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie star as the serious-minded Canadian captain of the Montreal Meteors, and Russian star and playboy Ilya Rozanov of the Boston Raiders, respectively.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2025

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