Sentence examples for earnest inquiry from inspiring English sources
The phrase "earnest inquiry" is correct and usable in written English
It is often used to describe a serious and sincere question or request for information. Example: The committee conducted an earnest inquiry into the company's financial records to uncover any discrepancies.
"How are you doing?" has moved from casual phrase to earnest inquiry.
How not to be proud of her?" In place of banter or self-revelation Auster and Coetzee let us in on their writerly thoughts about things – the financial crash, incest, chess, the two-state solution to the Middle East – in a spirit of earnest inquiry, and in doing so provide a slightly bloodless insight into their relationship with the creative process.
Frankfurt gives bullshit the earnest inquiry and quirky respect that it deserves.
In a series of short scenes separated by blackouts the doctor becomes increasingly rattled as he tries to gain some sort of upper hand over his ostensible patient, who keeps rebuffing his earnest inquiries with sardonic gags.
Earnest inquiries about ideological differences (in this case, from a child) are seen as opportunities to pitch conservative biases instead of giving both sides the equal weight they deserve.
It is not a question you would ask of Paul Schrader, a filmmaker who combines earnest moral inquiry with an acute sense of human perversity.
It was also the Rabelasian profanity of "Dogma" that caused its spirit of earnest theological inquiry to be taken -- again, by people who could not bring themselves to see it -- as heresy.
Details of that inquiry, which began in earnest last summer, had long been bubbling up into the news transom.
But all of these forces are implicated in a precise, rigorous drama that is also an earnest attempt at social criticism and philosophical inquiry.
With the plane's black boxes found by the rebels and handed over to the international investigators, the inquiry is now starting in earnest.
On the contrary, the way that Anwar and Herman use the fantasy language of genre movies as a tool of stylized, half-earnest confession is what grounds this film's moral inquiry.
