Sentence examples for earnest though from inspiring English sources

Before we get to Bush-bashing in earnest, though, one note from the campaign trail is necessary here.

It was timely and earnest, though seldom exciting.

Grown-up iconoclasts turn earnest, though, and so have the Fugs.

He is quick and mischievous, rarely earnest, though a touch absent-minded.

It's not that most cookbooks are badly written and killingly earnest, though they are.

Patel is earnest, though not in a hey-dudes-let's-save-the-planet sort of way.

Despite the most earnest precautions, though, athletes in international competitions have seized the opportunity to defect.

Sustained opposition complaints of fraud in the tabulation of votes began in earnest only today, though, after the observer groups had begun to close down operations here.

Manhattan has become almost exclusively the borough of sleaze balls, and the more remote parts of the city the holdouts of earnest, truer folk – though, of course, as more neighborhoods rise in income level, more sleaze balls are created.

The negative self-talk had begun in earnest, even though he was still on serve in the first set, and also leading, 40-30, in his own service game.

An earnest, likable, though at times vague and unfocused waitress doesn't speak or understand English well enough to communicate consistently.