Sentence examples for earnest boy from inspiring English sources

Friedman seems to have been a smart and earnest boy.

Rron, a solid, earnest boy who loves computers and drawing, speaks only Serbian in Belgrade and said firmly that he did not care if he never went back to Kosovo.

She remembered asking her friends: "Does anyone remember if he was cute or not?" But over lunch the following week she found herself charmed by his earnest "Boy Scouty" qualities.

Like so many of Mr. Canin's earlier characters, Corey is dutiful and conscientious, and Liam not only admires these qualities but also seems to feel a sense of emotional kinship with this earnest boy.

There's the bespectacled egghead (Kel O'Neill), his nose buried in a book; the square-jawed, earnest Boy Scout type (Rob Devaney); and a pair of brutes (Daniel Stewart Sherman and Patrick Carroll), whose volatility will spark the film's central dramatic event.

Two of the gunmen chilled her: Tukur had once been her brightest student, a earnest boy who had never missed a school day.

A writer agonizes to make even his villains human, so one would have to be heartless not to feel the genuine conflict in the soul of this earnest Catholic boy, the son of a Marine drill sergeant, who had devoted his life to public service.

For Marcus, unlike most earlier Roth heroes, is a complete innocent: an earnest, dutiful boy, who remains an earnest, dutiful boy until the day he dies — a boy whose only goals in his brief, truncated college career are to get straight A's, lose his virginity and go on to law school.

After the polenta and birthday cake I went into the bedroom where a dim nightlight showed up an earnest little boy in bed drawing, Neill.

Mr. Thomas primarily plays both the hero and the earnest stable boy Diego de la Vega, who is Zorro's Clark Kent; Ms. Hoey portrays Isabella, the governor's feisty daughter and Diego/Zorro's Lois Lane and Mr. Settlee incarnates everyone from Diego's father to Esteban, a corrupt military captain and the piece's archvillain.

Year after year, contestants display not just talent and poise, but a remarkable adaptability to the roles assigned to them: Mr. Allen never fell out of character as the humble, earnest country boy from Arkansas; Mr. Lambert always maintained his confident, good-humored aplomb.