Sentence examples for earnestness from from inspiring English sources
As Brother Maynard , Piercereads with sidesplitting earnestness from the Book of Armaments: "And the Lord spake, saying: 'First, shalt thou take out the Holy Pin.
Unlike Comedy Central's "Daily Show With Jon Stewart," in which the correspondents appear to be in on the joke, the effect the producers of The Onion videos seek is full-on earnestness from its anchors.
"There is more to be won from earnestness than from irony".
Betty, of course, is Norma's foil: her innocent earnestness springs from a well of purity that has yet to be corrupted.
Sheedy (also 22) is more plausible as a high-school student, and she seems to be having the most fun; there's a nutty gleam in her eyes that cuts through the fog of earnestness emanating from the other actors.
"Hasan Minhaj's 'New Brown America,' " by Doreen St. Félix Hasan Minhaj's tales of racism can at times feel like service comedy — personal memories excavated for teachability — but his best barbs have enough teeth to rescue his comedy special from earnestness.
Although his band, like so much of country's A-list, has lately veered away from earnestness and into a more bar-stomping direction, The Driver, suggests a shade of discontent with this trend.
And now you want to be the bigger man?" Minhaj's tales of racism can at times feel like service comedy personal memories excavated for teachability but his best barbs have enough teeth to rescue his show from earnestness.
Starring Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman as rival Victorian magicians (some wags called it Batman versus Wolverine), it suffered from a release date that brought it up against the similarly themed Ed Norton film The Illusionist and a kind of old-fashioned earnestness perhaps springing from its literary background.
The sentiments are earnest, but earnestness has its price.
