serious-minded
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It is a harmless game, and some serious-minded people play it.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
And it’s easy to see how a bright, cheeky mainstream crowd-pleaser like “Barbie” might have had built-in biases to overcome that a self-evidently serious-minded drama like “Anatomy of a Fall” clearly didn’t.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2024
"I regard acting," she once said, "as a serious job for serious-minded people."
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2023
Growing up, Cindy loved reading and was serious-minded when she needed to be, said David Kim, whose family went to the same Korean church as her family in College Station.
From Seattle Times • May 21, 2023
The serious-minded priest, hearing all that talk about giants and enchantments, imagined that this must be the hero of the book the Duke liked to read often.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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