Sentence examples for earnest enough from inspiring English sources

She's smooth enough for ballads, earnest enough for anthems and gritty enough for soul songs.

He was described as a happy-go-lucky joker who was earnest enough to be elected to the student government at Grover Cleveland Middle School but was so down-to-earth that most classmates called him E-man.

Iñarritu is hugely talented, but as his last film Babel showed, he's come to regard himself far too seriously as an artist; it now behoves him to make grand statements about the state of modernity's soul (Biutiful has an Oscar nomination as Best Foreign Film, and it's earnest enough to win).

Fake fans, fake "likes" and fake reviews are some of the worst aspects of social media — or at least for those of us earnest enough to take user-generated content and the will of the crowd seriously.

But he cracked wise in a tone earnest enough to convey sympathy rather than contempt for his questioner.

Pandemonium ensued as people were both ignorant and earnest enough to argue about whether Belfast was further north than Halifax.

The areas where these two teams will square up in earnest are clear enough.

Before the interior cleanup and decontamination began in earnest, there were enough traces of Deutsche Bank and of Bankers Trust, which constructed the skyscraper, that one could feel the presence of its occupants.

Walker, who was in "The Skulls," another trashy film directed by Cohen, is tall, blond, and dimly earnest — not individual enough in appearance or manner, I would guess, to become a genuine movie star like Keanu Reeves, who played a similar role a decade ago in a surfer-gang movie called "Point Break".

This is what a first-time Franken candidacy looks like: an odd balancing act between being the guy people expect to be hilarious and crassly partisan and being a candidate voters need to be convinced will be earnest and sedate enough to look right in a senate chamber.

There are enough earnest believers in the power of gaming to evangelize its message, whose enthusiasm then infects others.