Sentence examples for certain earnestness from inspiring English sources
Though playful, there was a certain earnestness to the project.
Back home, top of the list of Things People Seem to Like These Days is a certain earnestness and sincerity in their music: Home Again ticks that box as well.
"There is a certain earnestness of these audiences towards humor that creates red lines," he said.
There's a certain naive earnestness to my mom's appeals, the authority she has granted me.
A certain folk-like earnestness to her singing firmly pushes the song into alt-country territory.
There were magazines aplenty like Road & Track and Hot Rodding on the newsstands when a periodical called Automobile Quarterly introduced itself in 1962 with a certain neo-Edwardian earnestness.
What distinguishes this kind of dystopian fiction from its adult counterpart — beyond its being less dire and apocalyptic — is a certain element of earnestness, even preachiness, and the moral is pretty transparent: be yourself.
The sentiments are earnest, but earnestness has its price.
Is his "contemporary sacred art" any less inventive or more conservative than most of the figurative painting around today? Earnestness and a certain clunky pictorial literalism set his work decisively apart, but those are also qualities that make it so transcendently zany.
The Indian newspaper the Telegraph bemoans in an editorial "This mix of political correctness and fantastical over-interpretation" which leads to a tendency "to miss the spirit of a certain manner of putting things because of misplaced earnestness about matters pertaining to gender, sexuality and race".
