Sentence examples for earnest speeches from inspiring English sources

It wasn't to everyone's taste; canapes, no buffet, earnest speeches.

The event was a mix of earnest speeches and revivalist fervor.

A lot happens in the hour and half, and the play ends with a series of earnest speeches, leaving very little unsaid.

The white males who made up the largest bloc of society demanded more hoopla, not equality, and the clash of brass bands easily drowned out earnest speeches on reform.

Undercover promises to be an elegant and intelligent production – a short scene where a row of black hands hung silently through bars on death row spoke more eloquently about the US race divide than any amount of earnest speeches.

There are plenty of other MPs who deliver earnest speeches, crammed with lots of detail and analysis, and self-importance is hardly an unheard-of characteristic amongst honourable members.

Then she delivered an earnest speech about the importance of the arts.

West Point is where, five years ago, Obama gave an earnest speech to explain why he was sharply increasing the number of troops in Afghanistan.

The lesson I learned was not to give an earnest speech about reforming the structure of the student government, but instead, to give a speech that addressed things students cared about, with some humor.

His quick, earnest speech underscores his passion for the project, which he took on in addition to his full-time job at as the co-principal of Hunt Laudi Studio in Northwest Washington.

Irony, he wrote, is a corrosive, world-weary habit of mind, "a quiet refusal to believe in the depth of relationships, the sincerity of motivation, or the truth of speech -- especially earnest speech".