Sentence examples for earnest debate from inspiring English sources

The commission on presidential debates served up an earnest debate between two longtime politicians.

We have allowed vitriol to replace earnest debate and we have somehow deluded ourselves into thinking that wealth is wisdom.

That culinary oversight — and the untapped fortune it represents — was once the subject of earnest debate at Chowhound.

Last week, a long and earnest debate on the EU was finally held in the House of Commons.

Tonight he is hosting a night of "polemedy" in Limerick: this mix of satire, comedy and earnest debate about Ireland's future, which continues until well after midnight.

None of the earnest debate over the BBC charter renewal or the future of Channel 4 that grace the Edinburgh or Cambridge festivals featured in Cannes this week.

Mukto Mona's comments section often drew irate Islamists, and Roy waded into earnest debates with them.

Crashing and banging saucepan lids, whistle-blowing and rude chants against companies works where years of pamphlets, meetings and earnest debates cut no ice.

(It's unicameral!) I once covered the Connecticut Legislature, where people took their jobs very seriously, holding endless public hearings on every bill and then having long, earnest debates in which the outcome was not preordained.

For one thing, the idea of the "spectacle" has been for some young designers at odds with the earnest debates they had at college about the menace of capitalism and whether "consumer culture" would undermine their art.

Who after all would object to a political process dominated by earnest, productive debates and decisions made by an engaged, reflective citizenry?