Sentence examples for equal earnestness from inspiring English sources
With equal earnestness, Mr. Lautenberg intoned: "This is a defining moment for democracy.
Big engines equal earnestness, and they also equal bigger bucks.
How indeed, Mr. Eckert seems to be asking with equal parts earnestness and irony, do you separate the singer from the song?
The play is burdened with tiresome or pompous dialogue ("This place will eat you up if you let it"; "We shed light on the events of this world") and a central character who remains a blank, here played with equal measures of earnestness and evasiveness by Kobi Libii.
In his opening statement at his confirmation hearing, Hagel spoke with earnestness about equal rights and equal opportunity for all who wear the uniform.
The sentiments are earnest, but earnestness has its price.
He said, with equal measures of sarcasm and earnestness, "Shall we dance?" It was at this moment that a musician who had set up near the door to the street the door through which Patrick and Gregory had entered the station began playing a violin.
Almost equal doses of silliness punctuate the earnestness (even the numerous stiffly clinical black-and-white photo illustrations turn out to be mostly visual gags) until Dear Reader is plunged into delicious confusion about whether this is a serious dissertation on a recondite subject, or one elaborate sustained leg-pull, or both.
One problem with the debate is that the earnestness of the proponents is equaled only by their lack of pizazz.
(Baldwin can be quite earnest, even as he keeps an ironic eye on his earnestness).
