Sentence examples for earnest among from inspiring English sources

The actors as well are laboriously earnest; among other things, from their performances you would think life on Tristan da Cunha discouraged the cultivation of a sense of humor.

And the jockeying for invitations -- not to mention the battles for a lunch reservation at Le Cirque 2000 -- has begun in earnest, among a crowd that includes few people used to hearing the word "No".

Now that Serbia will have a new democratic government, to be led by Zoran Djindjic as prime minister, talks will begin in earnest among the Serbian, Montenegrin and Yugoslav federal authorities on the future of the state.

After that, the competition to discover the smaller paintings of the predella of Domenico Veneziano's Santa Lucia de' Magnoli Altarpiece in the Uffizi Gallery began in earnest among scholars from various countries in Europe, and I recall that among them Mr. Berenson and the aforementioned professor from the University of Rome had the most respective discoveries in number.

The tradition of national piety continues in earnest among Georgians.

Up until this year (it may have started earlier, but this year is when it began to be talked about in earnest among politicians), the most marijuana advocates have hoped for was a "rescheduling" of marijuana, down from Schedule I to perhaps Schedule II.

"Is there an earnest desire among people to change the current Constitution at all costs?

That this phenomenon may represent something new under the sun has become a subject of earnest debate among fire scientists and meteorologists.

This leads to some earnest palaver among the sinister chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) and the Jedi elders, who include Samuel L. Jackson, Jimmy Smits, Ewan McGregor and Yoda, as well as assorted masked and computer-animated space knights and politicos.

The long, sometimes painful post-mortem of the election — where Republicans were widely repudiated, losing the White House and more seats in Congress — began in earnest here among Republican governors, a group that has traditionally served as a wellspring of new ideas and talent for the party.

Amazingly, we have seen almost no innovation in student loan lending from the traditional banks, while there has been tremendous innovation in the market from startups like SoFi, Earnest, CommonBond, among others.