Sentence examples for earnest lectures from inspiring English sources

I'd testily endure her earnest lectures, and then head Down the Shore with my big-haired pals.

There are no earnest lectures about seasonality, no dreary outbreaks of solidarity with hard-pressed working women.

I joined Weight Watchers with high hopes, and lost five pounds in the first few weeks, then stalled through the remaining two months of earnest lectures, weigh-ins and little instruction books.

Those by Ulysses Dove ("Episodes," "Urban Folk Dance") are flashily nasty; Matthew Rushing's "Uptown" is an earnest lecture-demo with obvious if appealing dance illustrations.

Igor Levit's latest London recital seemed more like an earnest lecture on the subject of Bach and Busoni than a programme to be enjoyed.

IT'S possible you know the infamous David Hasselhoff video that hit YouTube a while back, the one with him on a floor, too drunk to eat a hamburger effectively, weathering an earnest lecture from one of his teenage daughters.

That particular incident could have been turned into an earnest lecture on bullying; instead, Farrant takes a robust view of her characters, who are always losing blood and suffering mishaps without being too seriously defeated or triggering moral lessons.

McKennitt talked of her sojourns in Morocco, Ireland and Spain, adopting the earnest, lecture-like and somewhat uncertain tone of a graduate student who hasn't yet learned to conduct a class with full confidence and ease.

Yes, the hype is a bit much, concede the fans, who then invariably proceed to mount an earnest lecture about how the Potter books and their author, J.K. Rowling, introduced a generation of children to the joy of reading.

It's embarrassing to watch the essentially square, impossibly earnest Mr. Smothers lecture his audience about what it wasn't being allowed to see.

His hero, Weinraub (Liron Levo), is an earnest young bohemian who lectures his friend Ruso (Tomer Ruso) on Herbert Marcuse and, in the opening and closing scenes, smears paint on his girlfriend while they're making love.