Sentence examples for earnest illusion from inspiring English sources

It's not that the other performances in "Graduation" are bad — in fact, they're blandly and professionally good — but they're repressed performances that, in their narrowness, evoke, above all, Mungiu's own proudly earnest illusion of reality.

Oscar Wilde observed the same in Victorian England, where the illusion of virtue (being named Earnest) was far more important than its practice.

Their ostensible spontaneity is a calculated illusion, as is an impression of earnest innocence that suggests outsider art.

Being earnest.

chants started in earnest.

Sheer illusion.

MUSEUM Illusion.

Some are earnest.

Viard was earnest.

A very earnest group.

He leans forward, earnest.