Sentence examples for Less earnest from inspiring English sources

Less earnest news outlets are running items about light subjects like cookies with the candidates' faces on them or a poll of which candidates' wives looked better when they both wore pink to the debate.

Russell's ambitions are much less ambitious but no less earnest.

But they were less earnest and more whimsical.

Let Jack Nicholson, the survivor of a less earnest time, announce the winner.

The reader would be 15% less grubby than the Cosmo girl, 15% less earnest than Marie Claire.

Other Van Peebleses also populate the movie, and all are serviceable enough as actors; it would be nice to see them in less earnest, more original material.

Making a virtue of the story's anachronisms, he plays the whole thing more or less in earnest.

"Spectres of the Spectrum," which opens today at the Cinema Village after being shown at the New York Underground Film Festival on Sunday, is like a 90-minute compendium of conspiracy theories, propounded more or less in earnest and with great urgency by Craig Baldwin.

"Some Nights" by Fun.: The Fun. song that is just infinitely better and less irritatingly earnest than "We Are Young".

Batiste's breezy funk and R&B could sometimes meander and occasionally drifted over the top, as with one song that swelled to a bombastic lead from mustached saxophonist Eddie Barbash, but the band was never less than earnest in looking for a good time.

If her book is more earnest, less coruscating, less eager to K.O. the reader than theirs, it's wonderful in a way that theirs can't touch.