And then the scene is abandoned, because they are looking at each other with deadly seriousness, realising something important.

She understood the deadly seriousness of the moment perfectly.

"It'll make the ground mighty hot," Dan grinned with deadly seriousness.

A look of deadly seriousness came over his adolescent face.

I approve the deadly seriousness, the piety, the need for something sacred in your life.

As that fact became known, the deadly seriousness of the situation became apparent for the first time.

Wading through the muck, the actors take it all with deadly seriousness.

He tried to cover his grin with an expression of deadly seriousness.

He looked different from the man she met every night in the club; his easygoing manner was replaced by deadly seriousness.

To have brought them with her proved that she was taking this whole problem with deadly seriousness.