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Frankie Celenza approaches the Feast with a kind of joyful unseriousness — the exact mix of reverence and looseness that makes the tradition so lovable.

From Salon • Dec. 14, 2025

When Bregman was announced as the 2025 Reith Lecturer, the BBC said his series, titled Moral Revolution, would "delve into the current 'age of immorality', exploring a growing trend for unseriousness among elites".

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2025

Musk’s fundamental unseriousness, though, may limit the extent of the scurrying.

From Slate • Jun. 4, 2025

There’s no reason to equate beauty with unseriousness; you dismiss Kim, Cardi, and the uses and meaning of charm at your own peril, Comstock-Gay argues.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2020

Breckon, of course, does not admit this, but he has suggested that she was first attracted to him by a certain unseriousness which reminded her of Bittridge, in enabling him to take her seriousness lightly.

From The Kentons by Howells, William Dean