Sentence examples for earnest child from inspiring English sources

He is an earnest child who seems to kick hard to keep his chin above water in the world, but his mother has a certain lack of sympathy that is good for him.

I'm one of those people who tears up at the slightest little things -- a tidbit of news, an earnest child, the national anthem playing in the distance, a touching television commercial.

The lunch had the feeling of any fund-raiser: rubber chicken, an earnest children's chorus (to which no one listened) and lots of schmoozing.

The view recalls those meticulous yellow-brown reconstructions you get in old, earnest children's books, and you half expect to see men carrying spears and dead deer, and the smoke of a campfire.

Everybody's so earnest around children.

And, because we don't have the adult vocabulary to be our usual cynical selves, we are as open and earnest as children.

Defensive tackles Dewayne Robertson of Kentucky and Johnathan Sullivan of Georgia went in the first six picks, and when Minnesota picked Oklahoma State defensive tackle Kevin Williams ninth, the rush for linemen began in earnest, like children scrambling for Easter eggs.

Fitzgerald, you suggest your husband treats you like a child," earnest doctor observes earnestly.

On the other hand, he was earnest, humanistic, a child of the Great Tradition.

"The Harvest/La Cosecha," an earnest documentary about child migrant farmworkers in the United States, has a muckraking agenda but a melancholy soul.

No matter how you look at it, Nights in Rodanthe was The Notebook with horses, Dear John was The Notebook with tin helmets and The Last Song is The Notebook with a dreadfully earnest big-eyed child in it.