Sentence examples for earnestly based from inspiring English sources
Two new novels for girls, "Epic Fail," by Claire LaZebnik (which is loosely but earnestly based on "Pride and Prejudice"), and "Falling for Hamlet," by Michelle Ray (in which the first-time novelist bashes away at the forbidding old text with impressive and appealing confidence), have at their centers heroines of the old-fashioned type.
I was at an interesting meeting the other day at a London based think-tank, where a Bahrain regime spokesperson earnestly told me that there was no point spending money on PR to make Bahrain look good anymore, as everybody knows about the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry report confirming that torture was widespread and systematic in Bahrain during the uprising.
There is overwhelming disbelief now that all of Fifa's Exco members based their votes on the merits of such bids, but it is important to remember how earnestly England's Football Association spent £21m, some of it public money, lobbying for the 2018 tournament.
In his 2002 film Why it's time for Imperial, again, based on a 1981 Chrysler print advert that featured Frank Sinatra and Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca, he had two actors earnestly repeat the original's macho advertorial guff as they wandered the decayed streets of Long Island City.
Written by Ann Peacock and based on Valerie Tripp's stories for the doll of the same name, "Kit Kittredge" takes place during the Great Depression in Cincinnati (earnestly played by Toronto), where the jobless are in the streets and the middle classes are in denial.
It affirms the continuing presence of the ancestors in the lives of the living, with beautiful words based on Zhu Xi's 12th-century Family Rituals, China's most influential book after the writings of Confucius – you could find it in every house in the 19th century: "We the family stand here earnestly and respectfully repaying our roots".
"Daughter, you're hitting them with the bases loaded," Hemingway said earnestly.
The more Rob Ford's lies were flagged and earnestly debunked, the more he was perceived as a straight shooter by his base.
Although the novel has its touch-all-bases predictable qualities, it is elevated by writing that is intelligent and earnestly passionate.
