Sentence examples for earnest competition from inspiring English sources

It's one thing to stand out from the earnest competition in a flamboyant four-minute segment of "American Idol".

Terms and Conditions The Guardian Box Office Importance of Being Earnest competition is open to residents of the UK aged 18 and over.

The miniature golf land of pirate ships, castles, windmills and jungle volcanoes — Americana by the roadside — is the setting for heated and earnest competition in dozens of cities and towns across the country.

What captures and holds viewers like Ms. Yaeger is the show's combination of kitsch and craft and the way it cloaks earnest competition and serious cooking in the goofiest trappings, including English dubbing that seems modeled on the exclamatory rhythms of kung-fu movie translations.

There's also earnest competition coming for the MP3.

But in reality, this is just what they have done by rewarding gun jumpers and punishing more earnest competition.

Wade is one of the many, likely millions, who take part in a new game for earnest stakes: a competition to find three Easter eggs, or embedded tricks, in a virtual game.

THE TASTE (ABC, Jan . 22 Anthony Bourdain's post-"No Reservations" TV career begins in earnest with this cooking competition series, which he will host with Nigella Lawson.

"Paterson" is Jarmusch's credo of artistic, romantic, and class fidelity, but it's also a fruitfully friendly wrangle with Anderson's films, a work of anxiously unwanted influence, earnest homage, and gentle competition.

PAGE B16 ARTS AN ORDER OF CHEFS, Sans Expletives "The Chopping Block," the new NBC reality show starring the British chef Marco Pierre White, is a much more earnest take on kitchen competition.

Griffiths has only been entering competitions in earnest since last year, but her biggest win was an iPad (which she sold for a few hundred pounds).