Sentence examples for earnest language from inspiring English sources

It is odd to hear Mr. Self, with his spiky intellect; deep, lazily amused voice; considerable charisma; and formidably havoc-wreaking reputation, speak in the earnest language of recovery.

Still, Braunfels's appealing, earnest musical language lacks that extra originality and invention.

The actors wear flowing robes and speak in earnest classical language.

(Nathan Lee) 'FORBIDDEN KINGDOM' (PG-13, 1 53) Jet Li and Jackie Chan kick each other around for the first time in this earnest English-language tribute to Chinese martial arts action movies.

(Dargis) 'FORBIDDEN KINGDOM' (PG-13, 1 53) Jet Li and Jackie Chan kick each other around for the first time in this earnest English-language tribute to Chinese martial arts action movies.

Members recently distributed an earnest English-language newsletter – a well-designed PDF since deleted from the internet – documenting the often dull details of their community work.

Wong's language is simple, earnest, and unadorned, and her reflections generally brief, to-the-point, and reflective--without the concurrent noodling of reflexive sentimentalism.

They even typed up a constitution in 1964, laying out rules for their new community in earnest and optimistic language.

Since the beginning of the year, when the awards season began in earnest, significant foreign language films have been in short supply.

The Killers haven't forged their own language for earnest pop uplift.

To help with the language barrier – earnest versus irony, or idealism versus cynicism – one character suggests that people simply say the "opposite of what they're thinking".