Sentence examples for less earnestness from inspiring English sources

What we'd like to see is more and more dilettantism everywhere: less earnestness, less concentration, more mixture of sunset - appreciation with gunnery, poetastering with statesmanship, hedonism with conquest.

I wish Glee would remain a tad more rooted in reality, while Fame could have used a little less earnestness and a little more of Glee's playfulness.

Behind the wonderfully engaging smile of this president there is the increasingly disturbing suggestion of a cynical power-grabbing politician whose swift rise in power reflects less the earnestness of his message and far more the skills of a traditional political hack.

The sentiments are earnest, but earnestness has its price.

The new series casts Tyson in a Saganesque mold that differs somewhat from his own public persona: there is less joking and irony, more earnestness and awe.

Interestingly, Kotsko refuses to blame September 11th, connecting the end of irony less with "a culture-wide turn towards earnestness and patriotism" than with irony having "simply exhausted itself".

In a social-media climate in which earnestness is deplored, companies have much less control over how the public engages with their brand.

The show, with its action propelled by ideas about the souls of clones and the coexistence of parallel universes, addresses philosophy as earnestly as any science fiction by Jules Verne or Octavia Butler or Philip K. Dick, with the difference that "Rick and Morty" is less than completely sold on the rewards of earnestness and more than somewhat alive to the pleasures of shock.

Because our earnestness and our vanity beg for nothing less; only comedy can dissolve them.

But there was an unexpected earnestness behind the urbane façade; Prokofiev, no less than Shostakovich, wished to map his country's destiny in sound.

What distinguishes this kind of dystopian fiction from its adult counterpart — beyond its being less dire and apocalyptic — is a certain element of earnestness, even preachiness, and the moral is pretty transparent: be yourself.