Sentence examples for earnestness up from inspiring English sources
"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.
She has been both mercilessly mocked for her earnestness, and held up as a provincial ideal.
His long-range threats allowed us to begin soothing him from afar with apologetic gesturing and pilled-up earnestness.
But it is equally collegiate in its mixture of sarcasm and earnestness, as it sends up and subscribes to the Brecht-Weill school of social indictment.
The set ends weakly, with a performance of a play supposedly by the teenage Merchant, which cheaply sends up adolescent earnestness.
The Fiorina running for office today is a package of conventional Republican policy wrapped up in earnestness and poise.
It's time for pretty much everyone to cut back on distance and irony and snark and ramp up on earnestness, love, anguish, passion, courage, hand-holding, heart-beating.
In a niched-up world, Mr. Williams is someone we all seem to hold in common, not because he is Uncle Walt, but because he reflects an appealing mash-up of earnestness and knowingness.
The cast also includes Emily Skinner, a wonderful actress who never quite makes the role of the hapless Agnes Gooch her own here; an appealingly virile Jeff McCarthy as Mame's Southern gentleman beau; and Max von Essen, who sings with melodic earnestness as the grown-up Patrick.
The sentiments are earnest, but earnestness has its price.
Like Mr. Leach, Dr. Thomas makes up in sturdy earnestness what she lacks in telegenic appeal.
