Sentence examples for capable of earnest from inspiring English sources
This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood So in my veins red life might stream again, And thou be conscience-calmed--see here it is I hold it towards you.
The three-part poem "Chanson d'Aventure", describing a journey by ambulance after suffering a stroke, invokes with gentle reverence John Keats, who wrote in a late poem of "This living hand, now warm and capable / of earnest grasping".
A politician capable of projecting an earnest, simple, unstinting love of a spotless and superior America is either a treacherous rabble-rouser or so out of touch that he is not qualified to govern.
And yet he has the air of a political Candide — he is always earnest, capable of disappointment but not cynicism.
As corny as these actors are, they're capable of flourishes that the earnest Ms. Potter is not, though she lets them fly their silks, which shows she recognizes her deficits.
But what also emerges is the notion of an artist rooted in country music and the blues, capable of writing in any style, from earnest Appalachian ballad to topical broadside, from hillbilly lament to whimsical children's song.
Kind of earnest and dull, actually.
Though he is capable of great pathos, nothing is ever quite in earnest in his music.
I'm capable of medalling.
