Sentence examples for earnestness without from inspiring English sources

Surely only its authors have read its turgid earnestness without laughing, which is one reason why the European project is foundering.

The risks inherent in making fiction out of the encounter between privileged Europeans and powerless dark-skinned non-Europeans are immense: earnestness without rigor, the mere confirmation of the right kind of political "concern," sentimental didacticism.

Even Stephanie Rosenbloom's December 2, 2012 New York Times piece used the term "Dreamliner" in wide-eyed earnestness, without quotations or irony.

(We kid, we kid — island biosecurity is important. It's just amusing to see Hollywood types like the stars of "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Magic Mike XXL" exude such earnestness without a gala fundraising effort attached).

The sentiments are earnest, but earnestness has its price.

What Scott delivers in "Alien: Covenant" is the simulacrum of seriousness without the sense of self-conscious silliness, a grim earnestness that's reinforced by a thudding, grandiose aesthetic that utterly lacks originality.

And the beautiful part about adolescence is that you can swing between satire and earnestness, sweetness and nastiness, without jeopardizing the overall tone.

In some ways this has been unfortunate, because Schnabel's earnestness can be imitated without producing memorable results, while the probing, vital intellectual energy that really made him valuable cannot be faked.

David Lehman, explaining his choice of two poems by Mr. Violi for inclusion in "The Oxford Book of American Poetry," singled out "his wit, his ability to find the poetic resonance of nonpoetic language, his deadpan and his ability to get serious ideas across without didactic earnestness".

Her voice, by the way, has ripened in the subsequent years without shedding its earnestness.

Without Gandolfini, who squeezed earnestness into Baldry's relationship with his hostage, Gore Verbinski's film may have completely bombed.