Sentence examples for for earnestness from inspiring English sources

There's no penalty for earnestness.

We will still have a limited tolerance for earnestness".

And the second anything aiming for earnestness doesn't ring true, the whole thing crumbles and cynicism wins.

There was an ironic undertow in her voice, and a sense that she had it in for earnestness, easy emotion, realism.

The rise of Obama has done wonders for earnestness, especially in the final weeks, when it seemed like the entire population of Brooklyn had temporarily moved to Ohio.

Unlike Mr Sonneborn's turbo-centrist, Mr Colbert's on-screen character is a lovably deranged right-winger who would do well with the real-life audience of Fox News if he traded his irony for earnestness.

The nature of her curriculum vitae, along with her outdoorsy attractiveness, suggests a pious crusader in the vein of the real-life documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy or the author and Obama policy adviser Samantha Power — someone Leonard might skewer for her earnestness and solemnity, for overly relishing the mouthfeel of the word "Darfur".

The only apology I have for the earnestness with which I have spoken is that I am pleading for the life, the liberty, the future happiness, and manhood suffrage for one-eighth of the entire population of the United States.

These parting words are on behalf of an outraged, heart-broken, bruised and bleeding, but God-fearing people... The only apology I have for the earnestness with which I have spoken is that I am pleading for the life, the liberty, the future happiness, and manhood suffrage for one-eighth of the entire population of the United States.

(con intens.), to seek for with earnestness, to search out eagerly or carefully (rare but class.).

She has been both mercilessly mocked for her earnestness, and held up as a provincial ideal.