Sentence examples for mostly earnest from inspiring English sources

There was an assortment of rambling answers, some personal, some prescriptive, mostly earnest -- "We need to change the kinds of books and movies people read and watch".

Meanwhile, teachers' union officials took the list of scheduled speakers — mostly earnest and unhappy parents and teachers — and called them to the microphone to speak to the empty board seats.

Yet the songs, which are mostly earnest or haunting ballads composed by Julia Darling and Andrew Sherman, are interspersed throughout the play without being integrated into the action; it would be difficult to call the result a musical.

Whoever this Stephen Colbert will be the playfully preening charmer; the chummy professional equally at ease with comedians, celebrities, and politicians; the (mostly) earnest family man with a love of America only surpassed by his love of Middle Earth; or some combination of them all it's clear people will be watching to find out.

Mr. West mostly remained earnest and defiant, speaking often directly to the crowd.

I'd mostly done more earnest stuff.

It's mostly the kind of earnest young men you see scrutinising the racks of independent record shops throughout the country.

78 collecting in the '50s, which is when it began in earnest, was mostly jazz collecting at that point.

(It must be said, however, that the film does pepper in earnest comedy, mostly thanks to Chris' loyal best friend, played by a boisterous Lil Rel Howery). .

It's an earnest style that mostly works.

Television loves betrayal, but mostly it's the deadly earnest kind, a matter of life and death or at least a life sentence in a federal prison.