His Calvinist faith and quiet, serious disposition meant he had little desire for the fashionable endeavours of an English aristocratic lifestyle.

Bernard advocated a joyful approach to life, instead of the more serious and pious disposition that was encouraged at the time.

From childhood Fox was of a serious, religious disposition.

The children shared tutors and even some lessons, because the young prince was extremely precocious and of so serious a disposition that study was dearer to him than play.

Amused by the raven's comically serious disposition, the man asks that the bird tell him its name.

"His wife may not have cause to laugh very often; but so long as she's of a serious disposition she'll be happy I'm sure."

He was of a serious and rather morose disposition.

He's brusque, and has a serious disposition.

Tornjaks have a clear, self-confident, serious and calm disposition.

Zhao Guangyin was described to be himself also frivolous and self-important, however, compared to the more serious disposition of his brother Zhao Guangfeng.