| He had worried that my printing his quote as spoken, without proper annotation, was an act of mock-serious irony. |
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| It is complicated by the almost indistinguishable line between being serious and mock-serious. |
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| The amusing and mock-serious lyrics also contain many clever inner rhymes, and especially those that associate with the key word, kiss. |
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| Introducing sports into a conversation produces, if it does not already exist, a non-serious or mock-serious tone to social interaction. |
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| The club's program included lectures and serious or mock-serious discussions at its weekly meetings, as well as beer-drinking parties, outings, and dances. |
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| The following passage, with its Greek chorus effect, expressing the collective view of Opal's fellow workers about her, illustrates the story's mock-serious tone. |
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| Danny produces a highly stylized mock-serious interview, replete with such features as exaggeratedly elevated diction, sing-songy intonational contours, and slow, deliberate pacing. |
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| He also festooned Weisman's original letter with mock-serious footnotes, which added to the fun but further obscured the composite character of the whole. |
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