Sentence examples for like earnest from inspiring English sources

Now, however, those sections look slightly dated, a little like earnest modern ballet.

Steve Martin, a publicist for the band, explained it this way: "Americans don't go for 'cheeky.' We like earnest".

"It's like earnest money: if you're a $50 million donor, I'll take you seriously," Mr. Sexton said.

As Carl walks Helene home, they converse like earnest undergraduates, trading thoughts on art (Dadaism) and literature (Büchner), and sharing their ambitious plans for the future.

They seem touchingly young, like earnest teen-agers playing at adult life, and, despite the fact that both of them are artists, we sense little rivalry or spite.

Like "Earnest," "Travesties" involves mistaken identities, imaginary brothers and a woman who is remarkably picky about the given name of the man she will marry.

"Would you like an earnest tone with your lentils?" November 25, 2015.

The Gradible deal — terms of which were not disclosed — will also mean that CommonBond can tap further into the loan refinancing market as well, competing more against the likes of Earnest.

Indeed, so many scandalous things happen in the novel — from adultery and illegitimacy to arson, incest, and suicide — that it often feels more like a gothic parody than like an earnest Bildungsroman.

But unlike them, it feels less like a corporate product than like an earnest, eccentric expression of its creators' nostalgia for the twilight of a musical lotus land before the Sex Pistols and the Clash changed everything.

How young he looks — at times like a cheeky schoolboy, at others like an earnest graduate student, as he ruminates on the meaning of his still new fame.