Sentence examples for earnest words from inspiring English sources
Her own is swaddled like a baby in earnest words and practised modesty.
It is this lack of earnest words and actions that provoke and reinforce the continuation of our protest.
Hard thing to do, taking more than a few earnest words and a new hashtag or two.
The character people see on TV — the charming smile, the earnest words and an absence of pretense — is usually who he is in person.
This wasn't an easy day for the legions who root against James, the combination of his ungraceful exit from Cleveland and the whole concept of the Heat's Big Three as his shortcut to a title being hard to overcome with a few earnest words as he appears ready to finish that shortcut.
Henry James missed his older brother's wedding in the summer of 1878, and sent William a letter of apology that reads, in part, "As I was divorced from you by an untimely fate on this occasion, let me at least repair the injury given you, in the most earnest words that my clumsy pen can shape, a tender bridal benediction".
In her book "How to Look Expensive" (by which she means "classy," that embarrassingly earnest word describing the universally sought-after aura), she reveals the power tools in her arsenal, and provides affordable and D.I.Y. alternatives for her cosmetic weaponry.
After telling us how he taught himself to play a tune on the recorder, he sardonically adds, "What biographer worth his salt could fail to detect here the germ of my aptitude for large-scale effects of wind instruments?" When you talk about Berlioz, you can't escape the feeling that somewhere he is sniggering at every earnest word.
There had been a few striking images, especially one of a chain gang of slaves linked together by a long blood-red scarf as they heaved across the stage, but nothing at first transcended the all-too-earnest words.
Everyone else has accepted their fates," she begins, laughing at how earnest her words sound out loud.
Can it be a coincidence that right before the novel's climactic battle, a poet-novelist puts into his parson's earnest mouth words that exactly echo the title of the final section of "The Wasteland"?
