Sentence examples for earnest art from inspiring English sources

But if Mariza, with her haute couture and platinum marcel hairdo, comes across as a sort of fado dominatrix, Ms. Branco, with her beatific eyes and Mariel Hemingway bone structure, has the demure appeal of an earnest art student.

The internet can be a very earnest art space, like performance art, as it's not dominated by the art market.

He's the anti-earnest art dealer.

He won a Super Bowl ring with Washington in 1992 and learned most from the former Redskins Earnest Byner, Art Monk and Wilber Marshall.

The Eagles publicly poked fun at the Redskins, with Eagles defensive tackle Jerome Brown telling reporters, "They acted like they didn't want to play us anymore". At Redskin Park, that game became known as The Body Bag Game, and it would be hard to underestimate its effect on a proud team filled with veterans like Joe Jacoby, Jeff Bostic, Earnest Byner, Art Monk and others.

Martin may never completely escape the "wild and crazy guy" tag, but he has certainly put it behind him with movies such as "Pennies From Heaven," "Parenthood," "Grand Canyon" and "The Spanish Prisoner," which veer from family-film earnest to art-house unexpected.

These books are not middlebrow; that is, they are not earnest pretenders to art and edification.

There are some wrong moves: fussy hanging chandeliers that look a little too much like the glowing-globe fixtures that were popular in modern buildings in the nineteen-sixties, and a lot of earnest, dreary representational art.

On camera, the chefs are earnest about their art.

Since he seems to be one of them, they invite him up to Sally's for a ritual of post-party gossip and deeply earnest conversation about art ("the Surrealists were just a bunch of social climbers") or the bleak future of their class.

I question whether there are too many earnest-but-leaden art house movies in the Oscar mix today.