Sentence examples for earnest type from inspiring English sources

I'm a more earnest type of guy".

Another consultant, an earnest type who had degrees in sociology and theology, observed that I liked to have an impact on the world (I do?) and urged me to think about other ways of fulfilling that need besides writing.

Many were clean-cut and earnest types in button-down shirts.

Possibly with images of Wolfie, or Greenham Common protesters, earnest types whose clothes express their political seriousness in a way, oddly, few politicians' actually do.

It seems boring, frankly — at worst, a world of panderers and manipulators delivering cant without challenge, and, at best, a long parade of earnest types who straightforwardly accept what the world gives them.

It would be wrong, however, to paint the story of punk right now as existing solely of hipster crossover bands and more earnest types who deal in operatic emotion.

I tend to think of something a little more awkward, more earnest, the type of music that stays inside on a sunny day.

An earnest grief-type gesture (wrist to forehead) recurs, usually detached from any situation suggesting grief.

Van Ronk started in New York as a self-described "jazz snob," more interested in the jazz pioneers of the 1920s still to be found in the Village than in the earnest folk types.

I read some more of the comments, and they seemed to come mostly from the sort of earnest M.B.A. types, for whom leaving a job at Goldman Sachs would be a big deal under any circumstances, that you would expect a South African Stanford graduate who worked at a bank in New York and London to know.

He plays Chris as an earnest suffering-artist type rather than a slick opportunist or heavenly emissary.