Sentence examples for ring of earnest from inspiring English sources
Her prose often has the ring of earnest adolescent essays, with a surfeit of descriptions like "the long-ago firelight flicker on my bedroom ceiling" and "the clip-clop of horses' hooves," and too many metaphors along the lines of "like an earthy stew simmering for years, by midlife I was ready for the table".
Under the circumstances, this rings of an earnest declaration of purpose or a desperate glimmer of hope.
An earnest ring of about thirty people sat at tables and in single chairs around the perimeter of the little room, enraptured.
Johnathan McCullough, a baritone, accompanied some of the numbers on guitar, singing out ringing and earnest versions of Paul Simon's "America" and Paul McCartney's "Blackbird" and "Wild Honey Pie" with the tenor Nicholas Nestorak and others.
It was the product of years of earnest study.
Kind of earnest and boring when he was, like, sober.
Kind of earnest and dull, actually.
When told of Earnest's remarks, Lee laughed in disbelief.
This sort of earnest fare can date quickly.
Nothing about that earnest, cheerful plea has the ring of the lofty — and richly endowed — Harvard Law School.
