Sentence examples for at earnestness from inspiring English sources

Such are the ironies in which Mills, at his most winning, likes to deal; rather than take sarcastic shots at earnestness, he stays with it and waits for the comic overreach.

"What I can do is look directly into the camera and tell you how I feel — 'I have to apologize for that joke.' I'm not good at playing earnestness, but I feel that I am an earnest person".

She is the best thing about the new film; she both calms it down and sexes it up, and — together with the endearing Paul Bettany, who plays Nash's British roommate at Princeton — she manages to chip away at the earnestness of Howard's project.

I laughed out of politeness and slight embarrassment at the earnestness of the exhibitions.

If I made a sexist joke now and then, it should be understood as nothing more than amiable joshing at feminist earnestness.

It was easy to chuckle at the earnestness of it all, of course, but the more interesting fact is that the deeper flaw in the plan does not often get mentioned in China: the relationship between innovation and expression.

"Funny People," the latest from Judd Apatow, the director of the hit comedies "Knocked Up" and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and a prolific producer, is being pitched as a bid at gravity, earnestness, adulthood, whatever.

My boyfriend has begun watching it several times a week; he laughs at the earnestness with which the young Russian reporters usually attractive and fluent in English strive to conform to the official stance on various issues.

The author of the Slate article wrote that she often finds herself rolling her eyes at the earnestness of YA characters.

It's art as a meme that can be endlessly reproduced in the non-physical space of the internet, art that sniggers at the earnestness of our social media usage.

And some may even be laughing at their own earnestness.