Sentence examples for earnestness to from inspiring English sources

Though playful, there was a certain earnestness to the project.

But there's a surprising earnestness to his answers.

Keegan's earnestness to show his whole hand at once can result in an overeager, unpruned display.

A certain folk-like earnestness to her singing firmly pushes the song into alt-country territory.

Yes, it's anthemic stuff, music for big lads to hug to, and Doves do take earnestness to new heights.

Though the twists and pratfalls are effervescent, Carell brings a wounded earnestness to the role of a man who, despite it all, is still very much in love.

"Oh, c'mon!" Luján, exclaimed, dialing his "Leave It to Beaver" earnestness up to 11. "You willing to get on board with that?" "Yeahhhh!!!" The crowd exclaimed.

The former archbishop of York, John Habgood, an Etonian of painful earnestness, used to reply to crank letters with a stock phrase: "Thank you for your communication, which I will read with the attention it deserves".

The value that Ryan places on his own perceived earnestness seems to be pushing him to enact a public conversion: he presented himself as wanting to like Trump, and to have Trump like him, too.

The goal, Linder said with utter earnestness, was to teach fledgling engineers "how to be bold".

Maybe it's our capacity for hope that we seem to expose, our capacity for devotion, for earnestness, bound to the idiocy and madness of a chaotic, impossible project.