Sentence examples for earnestly nice from inspiring English sources
Sin: The Early History of an Idea by Paula Fredriksen (Princeton, £16.95) The earnestly nice evangelicals Steve Boggan meets at one point might well have taken a dim view of his escapades in other places.
He speaks earnestly of "Wisconsin nice," and is proud that the state voted against Trump in its primary.
They smile and urge you to have a nice day, so earnestly that they convince you they mean it.
Despite their earnestly pious, remote expressions, it was nice to meet, after a fashion, two of the people who had built Marblehead's gracious homes.
After the panel, one of the younger people in the audience came up to me to talk earnestly about the importance of actual connection, which was nice, except he was casting sidelong glances at his iPhone while we talked.
Under any circumstance, let's all try to be a little nicer to Chairman Bernanke who appears to be we earnestly bent on trying to save all our butts, blue and red alike.
I decided the only way to make it work was to approach it earnestly: I would go in with an open heart and open mind, look for someone nice, and try not to do anything on camera that would embarrass me or the community.
Even the stewards are extravagantly nice, and a notice in the festival bookshop reads more like an apology than a warning: "We earnestly request you to pay before leaving".
