Sentence examples for looking earnest from inspiring English sources
And I'd much rather make a joke than risk looking earnest.
The manager sat opposite us, looking earnest in his short-sleeved white shirt as he poured green tea into tiny cups.
That night, bright-eyed millennials, each looking earnest and optimistic, kept asking a group of middle-aged women to put their chips for them into an inaccessible jar supporting the Nomi Network.
Furthermore, party activists (as opposed to its voters) regard him as arrogant, a self-indulgent star rather than a team player.Not even Mr Schröder, though, disputes the wonders that Mr Lafontaine, now looking earnest and responsible, and quite unlike the erratic imp of yore, has worked for his long demoralised party.
Mr. Sheekey furrowed his brow, trying to look earnest but pulling up a touch short.
Robinson is smiling, though many other players from that period look earnest and intense.
Every railway station in North Korea displays twin portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, in which both look earnest and oddly ageless.
Despite all his rock-star trappings Mr. Taylor looked earnest and ridiculously young for a 37-year-old.
Siddle always looks earnest and whole-hearted but sometimes, to use a common Aussie euphemism he can look "bloody ordinary".
His airtight script is matched by sluggish direction that leaves Rampling and Courtenay with little to do but look earnest and troubled.
But he tells it in an exhilarating style that makes the traditional social realist model for such stories – think of Ken Loach or early James Kelman – look earnest and plodding.
