Sentence examples for earnest acceptance from inspiring English sources

Then she launched into an earnest acceptance speech.

Still, I'm scratching my head over the earnest acceptance (both in the book and in the essay) that these techniques, or whatever you might call them, are French.

In the beginning -- or rather, at the end of a very lo-o-ng beginning -- George W. Bush made an earnest acceptance speech and urged our nation to "rise above a house divided".

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 — After an earnest appeal for acceptance from Rudolph W. Giuliani, Christian conservatives ended their two-day summit here Saturday still divided about which of the Republican presidential candidates to marshal their collective might behind.

Hamm seemed relieved by the win, crawling onto the stage and joking that there had been a "terrible mistake," before switching to a more earnest tone in his acceptance speech.

In his acceptance speech, Al Gore came across as earnest and knowledgeable.

As her first (and hopefully not last!) foray into musical theatre composition, Lauper's score is filled with catchy pop tunes and earnest ballads that get straight to the heart of the piece: acceptance needs to come from within.

The Democratic leaders went to Mr. Reid's suite, and negotiations began in earnest around 10 p.m. Democrats were initially incredulous that Mr. McCain was offering acceptance to any nominee they would come up with for the labor board, but Mr. McCain insisted he would stick to that.

But whereas Fossey's love for the gorillas seemed to heighten her misanthropy, Prince-Hughes parlayed her trans-genus bond into an earnest, if hesitant, appreciation for her own kind, and a desire for their acceptance and admiration.

It was only after Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's and Charles Darwin's theories of adaptation and natural selection gained wider acceptance, in the nineteenth century, that writers began to speculate in earnest about the sorts of creatures that might flourish in environments beyond Earth.

In his acceptance speech, Delp, who is known as Bud, thanked most of the influences in his career, which began in earnest when he saddled his first winner at Laurel outside Baltimore in 1962.