Sentence examples for our earnestness from inspiring English sources

Because our earnestness and our vanity beg for nothing less; only comedy can dissolve them.

In seeking to hold accountable those individuals whose exploitation threatens all but the most economic and political elite, we must temper our earnestness with pragmatism.

What will be our "Sunchyme," our "Lady," our "Music Sounds Better With You?" And crucially, as the years dull the edges of our earnestness, we will greet these bangers with dewy-eyed delight.

Policies do matter - they signal a formal commitment that provides certainty to investors when deciding about very long-term, capital intensive bets in the energy sector and provide reassurance to our partners in the international community who judge our earnestness in tackling global climate change by the credibility of our policies.

The sentiments are earnest, but earnestness has its price.

There was earnestness in our belief that the Beatles wanted us to read the words and think about their meaning­ why else would they have put them there?

It's art as a meme that can be endlessly reproduced in the non-physical space of the internet, art that sniggers at the earnestness of our social media usage.

"To be loyal to Judaism means to affirm it even at the price of suffering," Heschel wrote; and, as Jews, he said, "we have to face our existence in terms of sharp alternatives: we either surrender to the might and threat of evil or persist in the earnestness of our existence".

Maybe it's our capacity for hope that we seem to expose, our capacity for devotion, for earnestness, bound to the idiocy and madness of a chaotic, impossible project.

As we waited to pay our tab and sipped espresso one night, Mr. Krauss came by our table and asked, in earnestness, "How did we do?" Well, great, actually.

Filmed in "Miami Vice" colors and with a "Desperate Housewives" level of credibility, the movie has a touching earnestness that blocks our impulse to laugh.