Sentence examples for given the earnest from inspiring English sources

When I said it was classical I was pointed to a CD of Tony Bennett's greatest hits, and given the earnest explanation that it was "a classic .I briefly explained what classical music was and the clerk quickly caught on.

What the point of his movie might be, other than to woo and exasperate us in equal measure, I cannot say, but it proves how creepy the pursuit of innocence can be, and, given the earnest mayhem that prevails at your local multiplex, there is surely a place for a lightly mocking modernist with a growing distaste for the modern.

Instead, we were given the most earnest talking to.

We have given the case earnest and prolonged consideration because the principal questions involved are of unusual importance and delicacy.

That is not a small achievement given the flatly earnest quality of the script by Elisabeth Bond and the overly explicit direction of Mary McMurray, making her directorial debut.

But given the serious and earnest nature of the books – and what they demanded of the reader – the club was an astonishing success.

Sinclair Lewis, the son of a country doctor, would surely have thought not, and his Bildungsroman is largely given to the earnest young Arrowsmith's efforts to resist the lures of the profit motive, which keep getting in the way of the healer's mission.

She gives the conscientious, earnest and spontaneity-free performance of a gifted student who happens to look delicious whether in white hoop skirts or in short-haired boyish drag.

Journals seized from Ulbricht's laptop upon his arrest portray Variety Jones as a "mentor" who allegedly urged Ulbricht along, giving the then earnest libertarian sea legs to take on ownership of a site that prosecutors are alleging handled some $1.2 billion in Bitcoin transactions.

When the signal was given, the killing began in earnest.

That's why I've got a photo of her in the book... .. JOURNALIST: "How did the dress rehearsal go?" POSTLETHWAITE: "This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good, if ill why does it, erm, give me the earnest of success commencing on truth?" Enter eight-year-old WILL.