Sentence examples for earnest thing from inspiring English sources

"It's an earnest thing for me," he insists.

If I'd known anything about Nelson Mandela beforehand, I'd probably have come up with some earnest thing on a strummed acoustic guitar.

As the fiscal battle gets going in earnest, three things will play in his favor.

The best Anglo bookstore in the area is Motto 14, where earnest young things flick through art books and attend literary events.

We decided to be more earnest about things.

My therapist kept asking me earnest hypothetical things you'd imagine a therapist to ask, like, "Imagine you went to find your mom to tell her a problem where was she in the house?

My therapist kept asking me earnest hypothetical things you'd imagine a therapist to ask, like, "Imagine you went to find your mum to tell her a problem – where was she in the house?

I'd never heard him live before, but I was sitting there among all those boats, water at my feet, and he started playing Moon River and Heard It Through The Grapevine, stuff that was so bluesy and laidback compared to our rather earnest modern jazz thing.

Of course, this is only one branch of the sturdy folk tree; some purists would argue it's not even really folk at all, more an earnest, singer-songwritery thing that won't go away as long as acoustic guitars are there to be picked up and picked at.

Louis Beryl, the founder of the personal lending (and now student loan refinancing) business Earnest, knows a thing or three about student debt.

And if there's one thing earnest socialists hate, it's being mocked.