To describe these debates is to make them sound more rigorous and intellectually serious than they really are.

But though intellectually serious, Pantheon's books were rarely big sellers, and today Schiffrin is best known for having resigned under pressure.

After all, she remembers when some of her professors at Brown warned her that hip-hop was fleeting and certainly not intellectually serious.

He described Pantheon under Mr. Schiffrin as "a gathering place for writers whose works were controversial and intellectually serious."

Christians have long had to live with wildly iconoclastic portrayals of Jesus, some of which were undeniably artistically and intellectually serious attempts.

Finally and recently, he became the most (possibly the only) intellectually serious non-neocon supporter of George W. Bush's Iraq war.

Lee is a pacifist and an intellectually serious one.

The culture wars produced some intellectually serious books because there were principles involved.

Anyone who is intellectually serious and honest will not dismiss or run away from this obvious and enormously important question.

But now that the Republicans need to posit a coherent, intellectually serious alternative foreign policy vision, they have none.