But ultimately, the IS 300 seems to lack the BMW's maturity and seriousness, a quality that political pundits might call gravitas.

Overall, Fancy lacks seriousness, wearing frivolous, impractical, attention-grabbing (though not overly revealing) clothing and displaying a fun-seeking attitude.

Others lack seriousness or rely gratuitously on shock value, as if the Holocaust needed any assistance there.

If this were the way Mr. Astorino tried to attack the problem as county executive, he would deserve derision for lacking seriousness.

Sify wrote:"This one lacks the tempo and seriousness of the original and is packaged more like a song 'n' dance, fun entertainer".

And the whole French game on Iraq, spearheaded by its diplomacy-lite foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, lacks seriousness.

Some reviewers criticized Dharma Bums for being spiritually crude and lacking seriousness.

It is not that Mr. Daly's film, which begins with a tour of the desolate modern-day landscape of Auschwitz, lacks seriousness.

A very energetic girl often lacking seriousness.

But that does not mean the debate should lack seriousness or tough questioning or that it should amount to a blank check.