Sentence examples for earnest work from inspiring English sources

Even though it has beer bongs and breasts, it is, in its own peculiar, incomplete way, a very earnest work.

The book she and Mr. Torode wrote two years into their marriage is quite short and quite sweet, an earnest work whose hopefulness one badly wants to share.

H.H. Munro ("Saki"), in The Unbearable Bassington (1912), an exquisite novel of manners, says more of the nature of Edwardian society than many a more earnest work.

Molly Haskell provides that defense in "Frankly, My Dear: 'Gone With the Wind' Revisited," an earnest work of moviegoer remembrance that's also affectionate scholarship.

Though etched in acidic repartee, it is an earnest work, a tale of moral reckoning for the pompous Hugo Latymer Mr. Whiteheadd).

Historical fiction tends to be a challenge for naturalistic stage dramatization, and this earnest work, commissioned by the Irish Rep, has the overstuffed, page-bound feel of a by-the-numbers mini-series.

"Where are you now, Mao?" opines one of his earnest works.

When he retired in 2000, he began pursuing his automotive interests in earnest, working his way through a pair of Mercedes 300SLs, assorted Bentleys, a 1955 Maserati A6G/54 2000 Spyder and several Ferraris.

After a short vacation that will take us across Tamil Nadu to the coast of the Indian Ocean, we'll return to Kotagiri and begin our research in earnest, working extensively in the field and intensively on analysis.

Elated at the Soviet support, Aliengena began organizing the flight in earnest, working with an itinerary provided by the Soviet Union.

Although efforts to identify and minimize experimental error in chronic pain investigations have begun in earnest, less work has been performed on the optimization of acute pain methodology.