Sentence examples for earnest struggle from inspiring English sources

Regarding Terry Teachout's earnest struggle over whether television has produced, or could produce, a "classic," I have just three words: "I Love Lucy".

Smith wrote:...the worst of our institutions, in its worst aspect, cannot keep down energy, truthfulness, and earnest struggle for the right.

The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle..

Those interested in understanding where the plan fits into decades of earnest struggle with this difficult and important subject -- rather than scoring political points against the president -- would be well advised to consult this one PowerPoint slide.

This at times incredibly earnest, quixotic struggle against the way of the world has mostly gone on off the mainstream's radar.

Some make it and many don't, but the result is a nostalgia trip to the days of yesteryear of earnest undergraduates struggling valiantly to commit basketball.

Beneath his public mask, Stannard concludes, Waugh was "a dedicated artist and a man of earnest faith, struggling against the dryness of his soul".

They cheered earnest student speakers.

It seems as though Insatiable is trying to straddle these two aspects of our current culture, attempting to attract earnest viewers who struggle with body image issues as well as viewers who would be more than happy to laugh at the life of a "former fat girl".

It's a challenging and dense listen, and there are certainly moments of self-indulgence – the closing Mortal Man ends with seven minutes of Lamar interpolating his own questions into a 21-year-old interview with Tupac Shakur, a hugely earnest exercise you struggle to imagine listening to twice – but they're hugely offset by stuff that's really gripping.

Marrying small-screen formula to big-screen actors, "Shoot on Sight" is an earnest melodrama that struggles to surmount its good intentions.