Sentence examples for earnest sentiment from inspiring English sources

Mr. Irabagon shows his rigorous side on this album, but also a touch of earnest sentiment.

His great trick has been mocking earnest sentiment while embracing it at the same time.

There may not be a singer alive more adept with earnest sentiment than TONY BENNETT, and there surely isn't a season better suited to it than this one.

The measure of the film's integrity is how smoothly it modulates from wild farce to earnest sentiment, and the two - really the four -- main performances are as dazzling as they are effortless.

To a lesser extent, the same applies to Instagram: replete with expressions of earnest sentiment, often hashtagged and softly focused, but not with much in the way of a sense of humour.

Like Mr. Almodóvar in his recent movies, this director goes beyond camp, which can be defined as the travesty of earnest sentiment into a realm of clear and honest emotion.

Remember collegiate rock, full of earnest sentiments set to brawny, slightly off-center folk-rock guitar riffs?

Vusi Mahlasela, above, was one of the most important songwriters of the anti-apartheid movement, not just for his political courage but for his sterling voice and for three-chord tunes that make earnest sentiments bounce.

But the album's six ballads are just too many to slog through -- especially when they're packed with overfamiliar images of life on the road and impossibly earnest sentiments like "My only home was in your soul".

Vusi Mahlathela was one of the most important songwriters of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, not just for his political courage but for his sterling voice and for three-chord rockers that make earnest sentiments bounce.

8 p.m., Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street, Manhattan, (212) 840-2824 or (212) 545-7536; $25 to $40. (Sinagra) VUSI MAHLASELA (Thursday) Vusi Mahlasela was one of the most important songwriters of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, not just for his political courage but also for his sterling voice and for three-chord rockers that make earnest sentiments bounce.