Sentence examples similar to earnestness and capability from inspiring English sources

In Parker Brothers' The Office Boy, spaces designating carelessness, inattentiveness, and dishonesty sent the player back on the track while spaces designating capability, earnestness, and honesty advanced him toward the goal.

Its earnestness and insistence become liabilities.

Mr. Skelly goes about his part with earnestness and intelligence.

Their neat, plodding earnestness and faux soul-baring inevitably pall.

What is the relationship of humor to earnestness, and of seriousness to irony?

He may prosecute with earnestness and vigor — indeed, he should do so.

Here Palin is a complex mix of preacherly earnestness and twangy cowgirl.

He may prosecute with earnestness and vigor—indeed, he should do so.

"He has moral earnestness and great dramatic genius," Yeats wrote.

He is also German in his earnestness and didacticism.

Mr. Fontana probably strikes the best balance between earnestness and archness.