Sentence examples for earnest about it from inspiring English sources

"My first reaction was, 'How do you know who I am?' But he was really interested and earnest about it.

A politically charged, anti-racist rallying point in its early days, it is still commited to inclusivity – without being overly earnest about it.

"We really kind of got earnest about it in the late 70's, but it took about three years to do an environmental impact statement," said John D. Solomon, senior assistant aviation director for the City of Phoenix.

… But he looked so clean-cut and he was one of the men who looked like if it would be the first day of the war he still was earnest about it … So I said: 'All right, this will be my last picture of war.' And I put my camera and took a portrait shot of him".

For Frank, who has meanwhile begun a grubby affair with a young woman at the office, the plan is an agreeable pipe dream, but April is in deadly earnest about it, and the marriage proceeds to unravel with the inexorableness of Greek tragedy.

However, interest in metaphysics – the philosophical investigation of the nature of the universe and existence – had become unfashionable by the time Whitehead began writing in earnest about it in the 1920s.

"We've only just now shown that this kind of sound shaping is technically feasible," he adds, so the researchers have just begun "thinking in earnest about where it might be useful in practice".

Or if I did, I must have forgotten by the time I reached for my phone to post an earnest status about it.

The exhibition's name invokes the Eastern exoticism of Scheherazade, but the show is in earnest about its claims.

But the "You're All Caught Up" alerts show Instagram is being earnest about its commitment.

We can examine the effect of automation, and be very earnest about the displacement it creates.