Sentence examples for real earnest from inspiring English sources

I think it surprised people when he started taking a stab at real, earnest storytelling".

It is legitimate only in the last resort, and as a necessity in the determination of real, earnest, and vital controversy between individuals.

It has lasted a full week, having commenced in real earnest on Monday, March 15, when the postmen decided to join the telegraph strikers.

752, 757-758, 70 L.Ed.2d 700 (1982), quoting Chicago & Grand Trunk R. Co. v. Wellman, 143 U.S., at 345, 12 S.Ct., at 402 (judicial power ""is legitimate only in the last resort, and as a necessity in the determination of a real, earnest and vital controversy"').

The power to declare the rights of individuals and to measure the authority of governments, this Court said 90 years ago, "is legitimate only in the last resort, and as a necessity in the determination of real, earnest and vital controversy". Chicago & Grand Trunk R. Co. v. Wellman, 143 U.S. 339, 345 (1892).

Now the plot begins to bubble and boil in real earnest and 'ere long we are contemplating a tempestuous romantic quadrangle as Miss Crawford flits from husband to lover and vice versa .Daisy Kenyon" is "back street" drama with added complications, but it is, notwithstanding the above unadorned outline, somewhat more mature and compelling than the usual run of pictures of this sort.

MS. BODEN: It has such a fantastic central character, and his voice is so real and earnest.

How will it feel now that it's for real and earnest, my cocktail party claim that I'm working, now that events have called me on it?

"The Notebook" is pretty stupid, but you get the feeling that the real Ryan Gosling, earnest and true, is present in it to a degree that Gosling felt both uncomfortable with and excited by, and the part continues to define him.

That includes superficial theater people (whom Mr. Hwang doesn't hesitate to identify by their real names), earnest members of ethnic self-help groups, racist politicians and The New York Times.

And yet, paradoxically, something tells Stein that there is great point in being realistic now, that life is indeed real and earnest and that she must try to rouse herself.