Sentence examples for earnest sense from inspiring English sources

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

Right now, Hollywood is full of an earnest sense of responsibility in this time of need.

From where I sit, the vision looks pretty blurry, as the movie struggles to square its inherent absurdity with its earnest sense of conviction.

If Paris couture is about history, craft and masters, the new Mugler is about nonspecialists, quick communication and downgrading the role of technique and craft, at least in the heavy, earnest sense.

Recently, though, that eager, earnest sense of anticipation — which this section of The New York Times, along with similar preview issues of other publications, both reflects and encourages — has been accompanied, at least among insiders and journalists, by annual paroxysms of anxiety.

It's not a fair fight; it's plain to see that the 'cause for common good' is handicapped by its earnest sense of doing the right thing.

Elsewhere Mr. Hawk's earnest melodic sense leads him to a shrewdly revisionist take on 1980s synthpop.

The channel has a cheerful, earnest Yankee sense of industry about it, in line with the current fashion in parenting for scheduling.

"The old toys and gadgets — so noneducational in that dreary, earnest, modern sense of ours — were so much more open to imagination, zaniness and unstructured fun".

Under the glare of earnest restorations, the sense of time often evaporates like a fugitive scent.

The letter she eventually received from Ellen was awkward and grammatically flawed but earnest in its sense of loss: "I have always felt guilty," her mother wrote, "about giving this little girl away".