Sentence examples for a seemingly earnest from inspiring English sources

He is a seemingly earnest man with a self-deprecating and often biting sense of humor.

The game ended with a seemingly earnest kid in attendance yelling "Good job!

Hopwood has made a full and honest confession of all his crimes and can point to two years of service in the Navy, his past as a basketball star in high school, and a seemingly earnest repentance and desire to change.

He managed to restrain himself from poking fun at the opening act (one imagines it wasn't easy), but his own band mates were fair game: he told women in the audience that his bassist was ready, willing -- and contagious, and a seemingly earnest speech about prisoner rehabilitation soon became a tongue-in-cheek endorsement of his keyboardist.

And in Brad Anderson's "Transsiberian," opening Friday, which also stars Ben Kingsley and Woody Harrelson, she plays a seemingly earnest and ordinary young woman with a past and a secret; you can see her troubles flickering over her face; and as the movie progresses, she unpeels herself in layers.

Sfoglia is where it is because of what it is: not a showy bid for greatness but a sensible attempt at goodness by two seemingly earnest restaurateurs who want to make a go of it in Manhattan, where success doesn't come easy.

Yet, despite what looked like his lead role over many years in a political theater of the absurdly corrupt, Mr. Blagojevich, the seemingly earnest son of a Serbian steelworker, was not charged with any wrongdoing.

Yet it is the name of Mr. Kean -- with his seemingly earnest demeanor and a high-profile voice on ethics issues -- that keeps emerging as Mr. Christie conveniently declines to comment while he pursues several long-running investigations of McGreevey fund-raisers and former aides.

This seemingly earnest proposal provoked a reaction so vitriolic from sections on the political right that I began to wonder whether I was missing a point to wonder, in fact, that I, as a recent immigrant to this country, had failed to integrate well enough to grasp the nuances of American political debate.

When Zeno first meets Brett Kincaid, he is bemused by his prospective son-in-law's seemingly earnest wish to serve his country.

Just look at this seemingly earnest music video for his single "2 Be Simple" featuring music "production-writing team" N.U.M. (aka Nuthin' Under a Million).