Sentence examples for serious earnest from inspiring English sources

"I have a child," he said, in his serious, earnest way.

It's time to be serious, earnest and, above all, level-headed".

They were game, and besides, they took their cues from the performers and the questions, which set the tone: serious, earnest, solicitous, a little pious.

This time, though, the atmosphere was serious, earnest and practical — except at the beginning, when the Manhattan borough president, Scott M. Stringer, welcomed the students.

"I didn't go to Harvard Kennedy School to be approved of by anyone, but to immerse myself in some very serious, earnest, practical learning with people who have literally dedicated all they have to public service".

Viewers of the commercial will notice that the spot takes a serious, earnest tone rather than the lighthearted tack that Major League Baseball sometimes uses in its promotional efforts.

In any serious relationship, severe, earnest energy is expended on getting and being got, and football fans are no different.

It was all very serious and earnest".

Ms. Nayowith has a forceful style, serious and earnest.

I wrote plays damning apartheid, serious and earnest plays which the censor would never pass.

We've become so moralistic, so judgmental, so serious, so earnest, so boring, so hard-working".