Sentence examples for almost earnest from inspiring English sources

In fact, it seems almost earnest, conveying a kind of scrupulousness about documenting many levels of the truth.

"I have," says Hill, leaning forward in a way that's almost earnest, "a kind of naïve enthusiasm.

Now, with most of the problems behind him, the grouchiness has been replaced by a Frenchman's charm and an enthusiasm about the company's prospects that appears almost earnest.

It's quite hard to reconcile her fiercely edgy supermodel image with this sweetly shy, almost earnest ingenue, and she agrees: "I think I was able to put on more of a brash front a lot more when I was younger.

Despite its comedic title, the song "Rock'n' Roll Nerd" is similarly heartfelt, a semi-autobiographical, almost earnest, lament for a man too safe to ever be edgy: "He always dreamt of being a star/But he learned piano instead of guitar/Which in the Nineties didn't get you very far".

Initially, he pulls off making his character suave, charming, and almost earnest.

They were almost painfully earnest and idealistic.

Freddie Mercury could be mischievous, but there are moments, particularly when he sings about love, that he is almost unbearably earnest.

Looking almost painfully earnest, Jim May and Lorry May, the troupe's artistic directors, portrayed such demonstrators while Joshua Morphew read a sobersided lecture on ragtime.

Not long afterward, NASA rolled out a carefully orchestrated, almost irritatingly earnest marketing campaign around the blockbuster film "The Martian," in which Matt Damon plays a NASA astronaut stranded on Mars.

Created by the dancer Mthuthuzeli November, it's a bold, almost ceremonially earnest one-act work inspired by the hardships and resistance among South African miners and their families in both the distant and recent past.