Sentence examples for earnest anger from inspiring English sources

Rather than keep his persona under careful control, he risked naïveté and earnest anger.

At the same time, he has occasionally dropped the nightly gagfest to reveal flashes of earnest anger and unironic heart.

In the meantime, they're groping their way to oblivion with a touchingly earnest anger, confusion and whatever forms of self-medication come to hand.

The idealism, the earnest anger, the democratic, sometimes clumsy way of mixing styles and sounds — I am almost as susceptible to it now as I was at 15.

And when we can't escape the post-ironic way in which we view the world, or let go of the earnest anger we feel towards the news cycle, dogs do the trick.

For that, she'd have used a period, which in addition to its other functions has taken on the role of notating earnest textual anger.

So there are sweet-sounding, wandering pop ballads steeped in premature nostalgia (from Will); earnest personal confession (from Jack); resentful anger (via Andy); and cool disgust (from Skip, who sings about "a new world order: generation apathy").

But Earnest was confident that he "would be angered by the images that are depicted on that video".

26 October This hyper-earnest military shooter has angered some by seeking to portray real-life combat zones and a range of authentic spec ops units.

She flinches a bit when I describe her work as rooted in anger, thinking of it as something lighter, less earnest, though concedes that she sometimes feels she has no choice but to give certain stories a voice.

Still, with a crustily avuncular Hal Linden milking the central role of a survivor who masks his lingering grief and anger in wiseacre wit, the production does achieve an earnest pedagogy.