Sentence examples for more earnestness from inspiring English sources

As useful as that message may be, it is imparted with more earnestness than passion.

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.

Heti seems to mistrust her own mockery, too, and this produces only more earnestness, more self-questioning — but now of a disgusted, self-hating nature.

He practically bends over not to be funny, and his discussions of acting could almost, with just a little more earnestness, a little more self-consciousness, be Partridgean.

It offers more earnestness than revelation.

Monsanto also took the opportunity to speak out, and did so with a little more earnestness than Walmart's canned PR response.

Mr. Winton, a real-life hero who is still living, is played in the film by Rupert Graves, an earnest, good-looking English actor who lends the character little more than earnestness and good looks.

In his splendid Senate office, he conveys earnestness more than passion.

Baker's last novel, a rather downbeat account of a year in the life of a nine-year-old girl called The Everlasting Story of Nory, certainly surprised critics once more with its earnestness and total lack of gimmickry or stylistic pyrotechnics.

Unlike cool, which is largely innate, earnestness has more to do with a need for expression.

A study of genre viewing trends by the Broadcasters Audience Research Board concluded with the sentence: "We just don't seem to do earnestness any more.