Meanings of serious element in English

Ford had never considered the man as a serious element in the problem.

Now another and more serious element than the loss of money was involved.

The serious element has developed itself, and you look the embodiment of an Ideal.

In fact, there seemed to be no serious element whatever in the monarch's character.

After all, sex stands alongside death as the profoundest, most serious element in human life.

There was another serious element in their grief.

We are such an excessively frivolous party that we can easily afford to be leavened with a little serious element.

The thinking of Europe was done for it by Frenchmen, and French literature, penetrating and predominant everywhere, was a serious element of influence.

But all serious elements in their affair changed abruptly and to our instant jeopardy.