Sentence examples for earnestly presented from inspiring English sources

These vignettes have a stylized, slightly cartoonish quality that contrasts with the more earnestly presented scenes of the young Housman, who hopelessly and cautiously loved a fellow Oxonian, the athletic Moses John Jackson David Harbourr).

Mr. Vallone repeatedly and earnestly presented himself as the unrecognized architect of many improvements in city life often credited to Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in the last eight years.

But their shticks were different, and in my earnest way I prefer Kendrick Lamar, who equally earnestly presents pleasures booze and sex as ways to "ease the pain" of a deprived upbringing and a competitive adult life.

This might sound like a setup for satire, but no: the arguments for a Biblical paradigm for husbands and wives are presented earnestly, with little humor or nuance.

The plot elements are formulaic, but they're presented plainly and earnestly; the movie is anything but glib.

Ms. Fall constructed her narrative out of more than 30 hours of interviews with the residents and staff of a specific hostel, so her play represents a process of selection and distillation that arguably could have been sharpened further: The material feels as if it is crying out to be presented a tad less earnestly as a sustained jolt toward audience awareness.

Another much-discussed production this season, presented by the Lincoln Center Theater, earnestly tried to split the difference between opera and musical theater: "A Minister's Wife," with a book by Austin Pendleton, music by Joshua Schmidt and lyrics by Jan Levy Tranen.

"We are engaging with so many art forms at once in the 21st century, but we're presented with them in a way that is so isolated," he says earnestly, handing me a cup of tea.