Sentence examples for pretty earnest from inspiring English sources

She isn't read much today; her books seem, to modern eyes, pretty earnest and poky.

When going to the movies can seem like a pretty earnest business, it's good to have one that gets you hugging yourself with excitement.

It's pretty earnest stuff (see the extracts, right) and the book's intimate tone will no doubt endear it to readers who enjoy gobbling up the homely offerings from celebrity chefs such as Sophie Dahl and Nigella Lawson.

Maybe because I am just hard wired to be pretty earnest.

Besides the humor derived from seeing a bunch of wrinkly old men with muscular bodies, this seems like a pretty earnest comic.

Pretty and earnest, she has a pleasant, sweet presence.

Hanna Tuulikki's Voice of the Birds added welcome vocal contrast in a pretty but earnest web of Gaelic song and birdcalls; zany improvisers Asparagus Piss Raindrop added a welcome dose of irreverence and theatricality.

"We continue to believe that those resources are necessary, simply because we have seen in the past that these numbers can be pretty volatile," Earnest said at a press briefing.

Vincent Canby, of the New York Times, wrote that Sjöman showed "obvious affection for Lena of the earnest, pretty face and the somewhat rotund figure that betrays every candy bar she has ever eaten.

And there at the farm lived a pretty, intense, and earnest girl his age named Jessie Chambers, Lawrence's first love.

At least that other woman had been sexy, a blond rock-climbing instructor, pretty and tanned, earnest.