Sentence examples for Earnest seeking from inspiring English sources

The two have taken the challenge in earnest, seeking a true collaboration, blurring and even concealing differences in style and technique.

They seemed like earnest people seeking a dream.

The band Live sat among living-room furniture and played a largely acoustic set of painfully earnest songs seeking spiritual fulfillment.

When Carlson is talking to someone he agrees with, he pulls back, adopting the role of an earnest student seeking edification from a wise professor.

Brazil and other developing nations chose to negotiate in earnest and seek a realistic deal.

In the '60s, he began in earnest to seek out family-run firms in Italy like Piatelli that made fine, hand-tailored garments.

Earnest repeatedly sought to shift all responsibility for the email controversy to Clinton's team and State Department officials, stressing that Obama's own emails were "properly maintained" in line with presidential records laws.

He may offer a faintly acidic ­picture of the earnest Helen, who in seeking to rescue David wrecks his ­marriage and virtually destroys him.

Some of the more earnest went to Rome, seeking a meeting with the pope (who had never blessed their crusade) and perhaps release from their promise to carry it out.

"I think the results speak for themselves," Earnest said on Monday, seeking to draw a line between Obama's own efforts in this area and the vision Clinton set out at the last Democratic convention in 2012.

Take a wrong turning and a delegate seeking an earnest symposium on minimum wages might innocently end up in the conference session devoted to the market for paid sex.The star attraction there was Steven Levitt, an economics professor at the University of Chicago and co-author of "Freakonomics", a best-selling book.