Sentence examples for A bit earnest from inspiring English sources

It's all a bit earnest, isn't it?

I know this is all a bit earnest.

But the atmosphere is guardedly elegant, faintly precious and a bit earnest.

If all this sounds a bit earnest, Mathew Horne provides comic relief as a rented provider of fantasy sex and as a wide-boy editor.

Lovely Keira Knightley's Gwyn is a bit earnest, and she doesn't look at all like a boy, even after she cuts her hair and dresses in what looks like a Peter Pan costume.

As a speaker, he's hyperactive and a bit earnest, but they like that sort of thing in the Lib Dems (remember Paddy) and if he holds his seat (majority 267) we'll be hearing much more from him.

The Iron Lady, only here he was a bit more earnest and a bit less posh.

The new title "sounds a bit more earnest for my taste".

Overheard: "Our young designers today are, dare I say it, a bit too earnest.

Sure, The Breakfast Club is schematic, sentimental and a bit too earnest for its good.

Indeed, Alex Conant, a spokesman for Mr. Rubio, suggested that the golf lobby might be a bit too earnest.