Sentence examples for earnest playing from inspiring English sources

Here, the film begins in earnest, playing the beloved "Mister Rogers" theme and unspooling colorful titles.

Here he began his training in earnest playing a succession of roles many of which would not have come his way so early but for the war.

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.

After graduating in 2003, she went to work in earnest, playing another manic pixie dream girl in Garden State, and then a stripper in the film adaptation of Patrick Marber's play Closer.

Vancouver was also where she took up music in earnest, playing with a range of "crazy rock'n'roll" bands who never released any records - the Del Logs, the Propanes, the Weasles - and a couple who did, in Cub and Maow.

In 1999, she put her career on hold to study psychology at Harvard – famously telling the New York Post: "I don't care if [college] ruins my career, I'd rather be smart than a movie star". After graduating in 2003, she went to work in earnest, playing another manic pixie dream girl in Garden State, and then a stripper in the film adaptation of Patrick Marber's play Closer.

I wrote plays damning apartheid, serious and earnest plays which the censor would never pass.

In the end, "Anthem," directed by Ann Ciccolella, is a sincere and earnest play, yet one that preaches exclusively to the converted.

There was also an outpouring of art, like Bruce Springsteen's "The Rising," Neil Young's "Let's Roll" and Anne Nelson's earnest play "The Guys".

It sounds like the opening of a dull but earnest play.

An active afternoon of earnest play and fun brought him home with one shoe on, and one shoe most definitely off.