Sentence examples for earnest kind from inspiring English sources
Television loves betrayal, but mostly it's the deadly earnest kind, a matter of life and death or at least a life sentence in a federal prison.
When poetry is described as "quiet", this may mean that it lacks a sense of musical order and consequence, as is true of the quietly prosy work that is widespread in magazines - the decent, earnest kind that tends to be all language and no song.
Radnor: I think the word "earnest" kind of has a negative connotation on some level.
Given the author, that is not nearly as surprising as is its resolute PG rating — for all the salacious behavior that has been attributed to and admitted by Schwarzenegger over the years, he portrays himself as a reasonable, earnest kind of guy who has merely made a few high-spirited mistakes, none of which he cares to discuss here.
"I have," says Hill, leaning forward in a way that's almost earnest, "a kind of naïve enthusiasm.
Two new books show how easy it is to make him either too big, too grandiose and epic, or too small, an easy-to-take pop artist, in a way that erases his commitment to literary seriousness of the most earnest, modernist kind.
But there was something about Richard's earnest and kind expression (and, I think, the physical appearance of one of the women in the group) that drew me in.
"Cane" is deadly earnest, making it kind of funny despite itself.
In fact, it seems almost earnest, conveying a kind of scrupulousness about documenting many levels of the truth.
Later, as I scooped spaghetti and baked beans into cold, unbuttered rolls, next door's barbecue struck up in earnest, playing the kind of guilty-pleasure mix of music that only very drunken people enjoy.
