Sentence examples for sounded earnest from inspiring English sources

In an interview on Thursday, Dr. Drake sounded earnest and wounded.

If it sounds earnest, it was.

But if this sounds earnest, like a film student's pet project, I have misled you.

Afterwards, he sounded off about what a scumbag Morris was, and in the process managed to sound earnest and undudelike.

Yet statements that ought to sound earnest and heartfelt — "I feel like I am called to help these women" — sound instead as if he were trying to convince us.

It sounds earnest: in fact it's fantastically entertaining, full of incidents that would be too far-fetched for the wildest farce: endless animals get dumped on the director to babysit, for instance, including a 6ft iguana which paces the apartment restlessly, as unhappy to be cooped up as his temporary master.

PopMatters opined, "U2 sounds updated ... the bombast stays in check and Bono's questions sound earnest without being overzealous", though felt it "lack[s] the musical and lyrical guts of 'Pride (In the Name of Love)' or 'Sunday Bloody Sunday'".

Immediately after this revelation, she grew uncomfortable, worrying that she sounded too earnest and precious about her job.

For the past five years, Mr Moore's declared enemies have been America's tobacco firms; and on March 30th he sounded particularly earnest as he took part in a press conference to announce a grand cigarette-bashing concordat.

Some of the selections sound earnest and dated.

The standard folk sound was the Seeger-Baez sound: earnest, reverent, acoustic, and completely sexless, everything Elvis was not.