"earnest appeal" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used in a variety of contexts, but it is typically used to describe a serious or heartfelt request or plea for something. Example: The victims of the natural disaster made an earnest appeal to the government for aid and assistance.
This was not a piece of art; it was an earnest appeal.
Instead I will focus on their earnest appeal, made more compelling every time a patient asks if I or my colleagues blog, tweet or have a Facebook page.
I don't know whether my earnest appeal made any impression on her; she seemed skeptical of affirmative action during the question-and-answer period that followed.
Looking like a mix of Clash 1979, Springsteen 1973 and Robert Pattinson 2008, they're out for populist fame, with singles Listen To Your Love and Trouble On The Way demonstrating an earnest appeal to a heartland audience.
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.
Boge's earnest appeal for improving the life of women and girls in her country brightened the dark interior of the limo where it was all too easy to imagine the razor blades and crude make-shift knives that mutilate girls too young to understand or consent because of a centuries old ritual.
We've seen famous people in front of a plain backdrop making earnest appeals before.
Promotional campaigns on site include a series of earnest appeals, highlighting the terminal's bowling alley ("Bus lanes. Bowling lanes.
The men expressed some bewilderment at finding themselves in the crosshairs, and more than a few directed earnest appeals to President Obama to alleviate their plight.
And what about how they feel when the cadences of their speech and their earnest appeals to the public are subject to a ruthless reconfiguration in the daily sketch?
Signs of the French capital's transformation into a war zone — the bodies draped in white sheets, the blood-soaked streets, the night raids, the curfews, the suburban caches of AK-47s, the evacuations of world-famous landmarks, and the earnest appeals of Parisian taxi drivers to "Have courage!" — have now dissipated.
