Sentence examples for earnest gravity from inspiring English sources
As comedy has emerged as an essential art form, with its strongest voices looked to as formidable social critics, the whole enterprise has taken on an earnest gravity that is often at odds with its original purpose — laughter.
This second-string lout, who speaks "with the strain of earnest gravity that is elusive to all but news correspondents and community theater actors," sees the missing girl as his ticket to a bigger market, since he is otherwise "obliged to cover the state fair and touring troupes of senior cloggers".
His concert was half Wolf along with Richard Strauss's five Op. 15 songs and Frank Martin's "Six Monologues from 'Jedermann.' " It was all unrelievedly earnest, with a nearly sepulchral sense of gravity that was ultimately monochrome.
The Cinderella of our story is a struggling temp at the beginning of the film, an earnest working-class woman just turned 30, with a considerable brain under her gravity-defying hairdo.
chants started in earnest.
