The important and final opinions, the ones to be taken seriously, that can be acted on, will be the opinions of those who get over being scared and hateful first.
But what he thinks about everything beyond that point cannot be taken seriously.
What he thinks about how the world should be run, about what other people want, what labour and capital want, cannot be taken seriously.
We do not want the man who is merely hungering for himself to rule the world--not because we feel superior to him, but because a man who is merely hungering for himself cannot be taken seriously as an authority on worlds.
He can't be taken seriously, and plainly he has never taken any one else so.
The life-long vanity of a woman used to be treated with consideration, to be taken seriously, was aroused.
The efforts of Engels (Ursprung der Familie) and Bebel (Die Frau) would scarcely be taken seriously as scientific monographs even by hot-headed socialists if it were not for the lack of anything better.
With some later writers it is an equivalence of exchange values; but as this latter reduces itself to tautology, it need scarcely be taken seriously.
The solid and respectable statesman of that type does really leap from position to position; he is really ready to defend anything or nothing; he is really not to be taken seriously.
It is said that he cannot be taken seriously, that he will defend anything or attack anything, that he will do anything to startle and amuse.
The lyrics are, if that term for them were to be taken seriously, a crying shame, for the words of the songs usually mean absolutely nothing.
The dedication is too highly coloured to be taken seriously, and the list of virtues possessed by the Duke, according to the conversation of Zano as recorded by the author, only speaks to the writer's ingenuity.
The Cardinal Bishop of Winchester has appealed to the sympathy of posterity by reason of his supposed constitutional attitude, but his pose cannot be taken seriously.
I know you are not to be taken seriously; almost everybody knows that!
Hence the principle of liberal freedom in science can only then be taken seriously, when one advances to atheism.
Every one is free to form his own notions of life; they are not to be taken seriously anyway, whether they be this or that; they are all equally true and equally false.
It is a continental form of pleasantry, and an artistic experiment in blasphemy which is taken seriously by the unwise.
No one in England would dream of publishing in this form a work which was to be taken seriously, nor am I acquainted with any precedent for it abroad.
Of course I expect the play to be taken seriously.
Why in the name of my alleged great sagacity should I publish a play which I did not expect to be taken seriously?
Young simpletons who, twenty years ago, would have been writing vapid magazine verses about moonrise and roses have discovered that they have only to become incoherent, incomprehensible, and unmetrical to be taken seriously.
Love should be taken seriously," she said, with a wistful look in her dark eyes.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taken seriously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
