Sentence examples for about earnestness from inspiring English sources

In this seminar, we will examine works by several accomplished writers of fiction, and a few crackerjack poets, in order to determine what, precisely, we mean when we talk about irony on the page and what, precisely, we mean when we talk about earnestness.

In the playwright-director Tina Satter's latest work, part of P.S. 122's "COIL" festival an incomprehensible but intriguingly far-out riff on Chekhov's "The Seagull," about a playwright whom no one understands Satter continues her march toward an aesthetic that is, like Chekhov's Konstantin Treplev, as anxious about earnestness as it is obsessed with its own stylishness.

There is something mesmerizing about earnestness on this scale.

The article ridiculed her as naïve, sanctimonious and incoherent, but it also captured something real about her earnestness and motivations.

There's something nostalgic and reassuring and sweet and silly about the earnestness with which we looked at things.

There is something jarring about this earnestness, which telegraphs "importance" in a way that makes the heartfelt speech seem like the only real gimmick in the show.

Most often, they are funny about the earnestness of big-budget musicals, ripping into the patronising politics of Miss Saigon and The Lion King.

Though he might look a little silly, there's definitely something heartwarming about his earnestness here, resilient in the face of the absurdity of the average club experience.

At the event, scholar, author and game designer Ian Bogost suggested that those interested in using games to change the world think not about seriousness, but of earnestness.

September 1 2009 September 27 200909 "Are we white trash?" an Army wife asks with a fearful earnestness about ninety minutes into Bekah Brunstetter's new play about a young North Carolinian military family.

I'm not saying that my show offers that necessarily, but I'd like to try for it". On paper it sounds pretentious, but in person, there's a quiet earnestness about the statement that makes doubting his sincerity feel about as good as kicking a puppy.