Sentence examples for high earnest from inspiring English sources

His Lincoln speaks not in Massey's stentorian baritone, or in the echoing, ballpark-announcer tones of the Disneyland animatronic Lincoln first heard at the 1964 World's Fair, but in a voice that is high, earnest and folksy.

I was smart and I understood boiler plate and what sounded good and because I had been on the squad in high school, earnest full-throated cheerleading was my specialty so that's what I did but now, I feel like I know about 1/16th of what that young woman knew.

Popping up from beneath the rumpled bedclothes in an untidy brownstone apartment, cute with sleep, he addresses the audience in his high-pitched, winningly earnest manner.

The Navy switched its campaign from a high-toned, earnest approach set to classical music.

The band usually frames his earnest high tenor with methodically picked, interlaced guitars, structures that can swell from within.

"It would make it more like high school". Even earnest overachievers at the University of California, Berkeley, demand their down day.

Earnest high livers throuout nation chomping ahead, course after course, thru best of food, gives impression of progress in some direction or other.

Micah, an earnest high school student, questions his biology teacher, a newcomer named Susan, about a remark that has upset him.

These letter writers, and many of the men at Gettysburg, were not just different than most of us today because their language was more high flown and earnest.

And the show's high camp and earnest cheesiness make it the perfect venue to showcase his riveting knack for being fabulously inarticulate doofus — the guy who tried to make "jeah" a thing.

Never has the good old Model United Nations, popular for so long among the earnest high school set, seemed so pallid, so retro, so (to be read with teen-age disdain) 20th century.