Sentence examples for earnest desires from inspiring English sources

But one of the most enjoyable things about "Parks and Recreation" is how it uses comical events -- a debate that threatens to descend into chaos, a public forum that goes awry, a town festival that doesn't go quite right -- to celebrate the earnest desires and aspirations of its characters.

"It is our earnest desire".

It was also an earnest desire six miles away in Dublin village.

Each morning, the earnest desire to "give him a chance" dies a little more.

Like Sandra, they just had an earnest desire to help another couple to have children of their own.

He attains an appearance of supplication, an earnest desire that men and women need to listen, as God surely listens.

"My most earnest desire," he once wrote, was "for the complete and triumphant success of universal liberty to all men without regard to race, color or condition".

The film's strategically vague title gestures toward a lofty, earnest desire so familiar and unobjectionable that it is scarcely recognizable as an ideology.

She loves him for his sweetness, his earnest desire to understand the human species and his fumbling, Ricky Ricardo way with American words.

Gyllenhaal's performance is more opaque, yet he infuses Roland with decency and an earnest desire to communicate with the better-educated, more emotional Marianne.

Rachel Jenkins York The only thing missing from Cameron's Miss World-style bucket list (Polly Toynbee, 8 October) of "compassionate" Conservativism was the earnest desire for global peace.