Sentence examples for earnest about her from inspiring English sources

No one was bragging about his accomplishments or being earnest about her problems...

Stevens, about whose upbringing we learn little beyond its ordinary Englishness, is deftly comic about her predicament, while also being deeply earnest about her aspirations.

Like a rock star, I guess!" It's a random segue, but then Saldana has a habit of going off on brain-spinning tangents, when she's not being super-earnest about her "craft".

He had seen her films several times and was in deadly earnest about casting her.

What made those appearances interesting was that she also made heartfelt, earnest statements about her life.

Luther was desperately earnest about his standing before God and Christ.

Mr. Wong is earnest about his locavore convictions, to the point that he won't sell bottled water.

He was especially earnest about his Russian, consulting grammars, Dahl's dictionary (a more antiquarian sort of Russian O.E.D ., and, quite often, his émigré friend.

They were earnest about their mission, and by gum, you found yourself, over and over, buying marble peaches and weathered wood dough bowls.

Immediately after this revelation, she grew uncomfortable, worrying that she sounded too earnest and precious about her job.

My kid's anguish began in earnest about six weeks ago, when she realized she'd soon be saying goodbye to her preschool friends.