Sentence examples for earnest think from inspiring English sources

The mildness of Dellavedova's provocations only makes the histrionic local reaction to them – the impassioned denunciations, the drippingly earnest think pieces – all the more hilarious.

With the new season's release opening the floodgate of earnest think pieces, I wanted to try and shake off my Lynch cynicism.

But even I roll my eyes at the earnest "I think I can" lesson of perseverance by the Little Blue Engine.

Still, what Erickson appears to find most ridiculous is that women are so earnest and think that their stories and dilemmas are relevant to this debate.

Not corny, corny is the wrong word, earnest I think.

"Before we began to do the show in earnest, I thought that was television's weakness.

JF: When things started happening for us in earnest, I thought to myself that it would be amazing if at the end, we could be our decades' Violent Femmes.

There are wet, earnest commentators who think Chan should have been played by an Asian actor, conveniently forgetting that Asians were then in short supply in Hollywood, forgetting as well that the issue was not Chan's race but the respect in which he was always held.

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.

The fact that Thiebaud is fond of signing his name with a heart (an upside down "W," he says) is probably a clue, as are his earnest statements: "I think an artist's capacity to handle the figure is a great test of his abilities".

"Based on our collective experience here on observing the situation," Mr. Earnest said, "I think we have some reasons to be skeptical that the Russians are able or are willing to implement the arrangement consistent with the way it's been described".