Sentence examples for earnest reference from inspiring English sources

For art-history students, iPhone photographs are an earnest reference aid, a crystalline substitute for hard-to-decipher notes.

He appears genuinely moved by it, and seems to be making a completely earnest reference to Britain's Got Talent when he says, "Piers Morgan knows what a good voice is she would have got through to the final easy".

He had the intellectual moves and literary tricks diagrammed in advance: the raised-eyebrow, mock-earnest references to old TV shows and comic books; the acknowledgment that truth was a language game.

If you are job hunting in earnest, you may need to rotate references in case they become "overused".

The reference is not appreciated by Timothy Weal, the friendly, earnest operations manager of the Bowery Mission, who looks much too young to have been, as he describes it, "an alcoholic for 27 years".

That budget battle has become the central reference point for the fiscal fight that begins in earnest this week.

The more consequential work, however, of adding, removing, burnishing, or burying references to scandal or policy has fallen to earnest Wikicivilians.

Although several previous references exist, the printed literature of magic dates in earnest from the mid-16th century and encompasses thousands of texts.

Despite a time frame that gallops forward into 2013 and a wealth of irresistibly hyperbolized pop cultural references, "Lionel Asbo" is at heart an old-fashioned novel, earnest in its agenda.

Ms. Harrison writes: Despite a time frame that gallops forward into 2013 and a wealth of irresistibly hyperbolized pop cultural references, "Lionel Asbo" is at heart an old-fashioned novel, earnest in its agenda.

Scott is earnest in an age of irony, damning the "satanic creators" of Heat magazine and inserting a reference to Iraq into Old England.