Sentence examples for its earnestness from inspiring English sources

I favor the legalization of gay marriage, but I doubt whether this entertaining and well-crafted feature-length broadside (no pun intended, at all) on its behalf will prove any more effective in influencing legislation than was "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry"—even if, in its earnestness, it might be used more effectively in advocates' fundraising events.

Just as his disquisition is threatening to collapse under the weight of its earnestness, he pulls it back by distilling his message into a pithy slogan – "Fuck normality" – and launching into Adorn, his 2012 breakthrough single.

It is folk music's nakedness, its earnestness that I love, and why I find it to be particularly poignant.

At times, though, it is undone by its exhaustiveness, its earnestness.

It's in these moments when the likes of Luke Cage became corny so aggressive in its earnestness that I couldn't stand it.

It's in these moments when the likes of Luke Cage became corny; so aggressive in its earnestness that I couldn't stand it.

The traditional English 19th-century novel — its sweep, its color, its intricate narrative machinery, its moral earnestness — is clearly on Hagen's mind.

Early on, it gets lost in its own earnestness and never finds its way back.

Like the flop Broadway revival directed by Gale Edwards in 2000, Mr. McAnuff's production dresses up the timeless story in mostly contemporary garb, an approach that somehow makes it seem even more dated in its throbbing earnestness.

When CW absorbed WB, "Smallville" stayed on the air, its wholesome earnestness somewhat out of place among the new network's stable of scandalous, sex-obsessed hormonal dramas.

The only recent actor I know who exhibits the same level of knowingness, of being a step ahead of the joke and anticipating its hidden earnestness, is Warren Beatty.