Sentence examples for earnest teacher from inspiring English sources

After an agitated orchestral prelude, Act I begins with an involving love spat between Medvedenko (the appealing tenor David Gagnon), an earnest teacher, and Masha (the plush-voiced soprano Kristin Sampson), the woman he pines for, whose father runs the estate on which the story takes place.

Gus Kaikkonen stages his witty translation with a finely tuned rhythm that takes advantage of the multitude of broadly gullible residents, including the easily seduced town crier (Chris Mixon), the earnest teacher (Scott Barrow) and the wealthy Lady in Violet (Patti Perkins).

Clive, the manfully bearded, over-earnest teacher, leads an odd collection of teenagers, widowers and divorcees through the basics of whitewater technique.

"We absolutely need demands," said Shawn Redden, 35, an earnest history teacher in the group.

THE ingredients add up to a certified hit: An earnest, young teacher intent on building the choir of his dreams.

But he also has the earnest writing teacher's habit of spouting off inspirational quotes from the likes of Roland Barthes and Joseph Brodsky.

And only a week ago at a college in the Bible Belt part of Texas, an earnest English teacher trapped me into her office and started a routine examination: "You knew TS Eliot, did you?

"That is blatantly trying to cheat," Shearer said forlornly on Match of the Day, looking very much the earnest PE teacher who thinks his class is cutting corners when it comes to their warm-down burpees.

And what makes The Iron Giant even more extraordinary is that it's based on The Iron Man, one of those dire "works for children" by Ted Hughes, with gloomy woodcut illustrations - the sort of thing only earnest English teachers think children could possibly like outside the classroom.

Earnest history teachers driving their families on improving holidays across Europe.

And, perhaps, even more so now that those earnest history teachers and men in summer socks and sandals no longer drive them.  .