Sentence examples for earnest purpose from inspiring English sources

He revels in their flamboyant playfulness and its earnest purpose, in their fusion of slapstick antics with hieratic exaltation.

The spare flatness of the images, the tamped-down performances, and the restricted scope of the incidents contribute to the sense of didactic clarity and earnest purpose.

The comparisons with Waugh, a generation before, were natural, but Waugh, in his early satiric books, was putting an end to what remained of the Victorian-Edwardian bourgeois pieties, the secular pieties of family and education and honor and earnest purpose, if in the interest of the higher piety of Catholicism.

The test should simply be this -- if a group has an earnest purpose to help people support each other through this crisis, that's service enough.

They were momentum-killers, weighed down by their earnest sense of purpose.

Under the circumstances, this rings of an earnest declaration of purpose or a desperate glimmer of hope.

Gluck, in his operas, cleared away the ornamentation of the Baroque, the sense of art for art's sake, replacing it with what he called "a beautiful simplicity": clear vocal lines, orchestral music focused on the drama and earnest seriousness of purpose.

The earnest Scandanavian design touches.

Parliamentarians have raised the matter in the House of Commons, while making earnest points about the purpose of publicly funded television.

The lack of direction was on purpose and in earnest.

The improvement of horses for various purposes began in earnest during the Middle Ages.