Sentence examples for earnest you from inspiring English sources

Beards are earnest, you see; they suggest that you are too interested in the plight of humanity to give any thought to shaving.

Once the talking gets going in earnest, you learn that John isn't performing or writing and that he's a bit contemptuous of Paul's continuing drive to please the public.

Jennifer Lawrence's narration gets so earnest you might wish she'd sunk at least one rum-and-coke beforehand, but elsewhere dry, rational science is mixed with piquant detail and playful soundtrack choices.

Dishearteningly billed as "a conceptual project based on every woman's journey of self knowledge and healing" – a description that makes it sound like something agonisingly earnest you'd go out of your way to avoid at the Edinburgh Fringe – Beyoncé's sixth solo album touches on a lot of potent topics.

The gang is so friendly and earnest you feel a little bad badmouthing their work.

"It doesn't have to do with how brilliant you are, or how earnest you are, or how kind.

If you want it young, you don't want it serious; if you want it sexy, you don't want it earnest; if you want it fashionable, you want it throwaway.

Before you start in earnest when you return to your in-person conversation, apologize for the interruption and then pay attention to what the person or people you are talking to have to say.

You need to be earnest, but you can't be too earnest.

As famous singers go, King has always seemed exceedingly nice — more Janis Ian than Janis Joplin — and her book's humble granola-and-chardonnay prose is about as earnest as you'd expect from the songwriter behind "You've Got a Friend".

As the 2012 Presidential campaign begins in earnest, are you going to stand with Barack Obama, or are you going to support Brian Moran's continuing to remain as DPVA Chair while he simultaneously leads the attack on the policies of our Democratic President?