Sentence examples for earnest schoolboy from inspiring English sources
He looked more like a cross between earnest schoolboy and reclusive professor, and never seemed quite ready to take off his jacket.
Sitting at the table with Mr. Lehrer tonight were two earnest schoolboys who had read their last report cards, done their homework and learned their lessons, at least for now.
A touch of Hogwarts hovers over the film, but the earnest, solemn, blue-eyed schoolboy has been replaced by a hyperverbal, occasionally manic Jewish adolescent from Paterson, N.J.
Thomas, who is forty-one, wears a buzz cut and round wire-rimmed glasses and has the earnest disposition of a schoolboy politician, which belies his determination; colleagues liken him to "a terrier with rats".
How young he looks — at times like a cheeky schoolboy, at others like an earnest graduate student, as he ruminates on the meaning of his still new fame.
Soon it will begin in earnest as its scrummaging machine tours the country, tested by 36 packs of all abilities, including professionals, schoolboys and women's teams.
Tomorrow: A Berlin schoolboy remembers.
chants started in earnest.
