Sentence examples for earnest quality from inspiring English sources

The students' requests to the professors they wanted to participate had an earnest quality.

There is an earnest quality to his approach that sat well with his greatest advocate, Ferguson.

I like the fact that there's no "scene"; there's an earnest quality to the people.

Al's projects always had the same quirky yet earnest quality back then — part business venture, part recycling effort, part idealistic prank.

Al's projects always had the same quirky yet earnest quality back then part business venture, part recycling effort, part idealistic prank.

That is not a small achievement given the flatly earnest quality of the script by Elisabeth Bond and the overly explicit direction of Mary McMurray, making her directorial debut.

They have an earnest, idealistic quality that reminds you just how full of hope America was after World War II.

Each has an earnest, detached quality that may be truthful — Mr. O'Ross in particular has a subtle restraint, with detail in his accent and thought in his eyes — but that quality drains energy from this already turgid film.

Optimo Fine Hats, like their maker, evince an earnest, straightforward quality that's increasingly rare these days.

Aydin has an earnest, righteous quality, but it is a peculiar brand of piety, brushed with arrogance as he admonishes Nihal for, of all things, her charity work.

More deadpan than either Stewart or Colbert, Oliver has brought to previous work an earnest everyman quality that serves him well when playing a correspondant who has missed the point or host delivering a pointed diatribe.