Sentence examples for no earnest from inspiring English sources

Yet it was no earnest tract.

But this is no earnest, let's-all-get-along tale.

But Woodstock was no earnest rally; it had love songs, blues and extended guitar jams.

With Prior, there were no earnest attempts to win hearts and minds over multiple cups of tea.

There are no earnest lectures about seasonality, no dreary outbreaks of solidarity with hard-pressed working women.

There will be no rhapsodizing over the floral splendors of Sissing hurst, no earnest advocates for two-tufts-of-grass minimalism in the garden.

What began as a no doubt earnest effort to hammer out fixes for the most egregious and tenaciously unpopular aspects via committee, has instead produced legislation that makes the voucher inequities even worse by recommending an overall increase in landowner tags, at the same time failing to eliminate the vulgar public lands inclusion.

But unlike "Jesus Christ Superstar," "Godspell" or other pop dramatizations of the Scriptures, "The Magdalene" is an earnest, no-nonsense exegesis.

For instance, one spot, featuring a vendor named Anita, begins with her speaking in an earnest, no-nonsense tone of voice.

It sounded no less earnest and no more compelling on a second hearing, with passages of lovely music fading into a kind of monochromatic gray wash.

Festival openers are often disappointing, and sadly, Julie Taymor's Frida was no exception: an earnest biopic of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, starring Salma Hayek.