Sentence examples similar to Earnest sought 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.

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.

They seemed like earnest people seeking a dream.

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.

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.

The struggle for China's soul is over, for China today is not the earnest socialist redoubt sought by hard-liners, but the modernizing market economy sought by Zhao Ziyang, the leader ousted in 1989.

Mr. Koizumi called the suspension "regrettable" and pledged to seek "earnest actions" from the North to resolve the issue.

Sam Durant's concession of the intellectual property rights to the Dakota people also demonstrated an unprecedented willingness to listen and seek earnest reconciliation.

An earnest legislator who seeks to legislate across a broad range of big, looming issues, Hagel managed to pass a couple of bills that offered corporations loan guarantees and tax breaks to come up with processes and devices that limit greenhouse gases.