Sentence examples for earnest authenticity from inspiring English sources
Leaving aside High School Musical - which is not really an album so much as part of a masterful exercise in cross-media branding - all the rest are big on earnest authenticity, be it in the form of Linkin Park's loudly expressed angst or Norah Jones's much-vaunted jazz chops.
❦ Emerging after the earnest, authenticity-obsessed late 60s, glam was a period in which rock rediscovered a sense of showbiz and spectacle.
Suddenly Salle's harsh artifice seemed heroic, an earnest of authenticity — without ceasing to seem perverse, against the grain.
Like much of Sunset Television's work the humor is poker faced, and most of the 3,865 comments posted online involve earnest questions about authenticity.
To his fans, the singer-songwriter is a beacon of earnest integrity and punk authenticity.
To understand Father John Misty you have to remember that Josh Tillman spent a decade chasing a phoney idea of authenticity, making several earnest, ascetic albums under the name J Tillman.
But "This Unruly Mess" is most fascinating as a document of Macklemore's quest for authenticity, from his earnest dissertation on structures of privilege to the personal demons of "Kevin," a spiky blues-funk number about a friend lost to a prescription-drug overdose.
There's just like an authenticity, there's an earnest vibe.
No matter how earnest the performance, actors can't fake the authenticity of some of these moments.
And we earnest Americans, raised to value hard work and plain talk, will always choose faux authenticity over real artifice.
