Sentence examples for the earnest of from inspiring English sources

3. My Book Against Death by Elias Canetti Canetti picks up the lance with all the earnest of a Don Quixote.

That's why I've got a photo of her in the book... .. JOURNALIST: "How did the dress rehearsal go?" POSTLETHWAITE: "This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good, if ill why does it, erm, give me the earnest of success commencing on truth?" Enter eight-year-old WILL.

On the other, however, their first three albums are packed with majestically skewed baroque pop songs that didn't really fit with the prevalent trend for psychedelia, but did sound like the products of off-kilter imaginations being allowed to run riot: Lemons Never Forget, I Have Decided to Join the Airforce, The Earnest of Being George.

There is something fantastically appealing about records such as Idea and Horizontal, on which cabaret standards (I've Gotta Get a Message to You, Massachusetts) uncomfortably rub shoulders with songs called The Earnest of Being George and I Have Decided to Join the Airforce.

But if the press is at all indicative of the actual culture of the companies, I suspect it will be the Earnests of the world, and not the Sindeos, that ultimately disrupt finance.

Both slip easily into the earnest, humble-of-the-earth mode of liberal God talk.

That means some exciting teen skaters such as Gracie Gold and Julia Lipnitskaia--and coverage more buttoned-down than some of the skaters' outfits, courtesy of the earnest troika of Tom Hammond, Scott Hamilton and Sandra Bezic.

Philbrick's vivid account of the earnest band of English men and women known as America's founders offers perspectives of both the Pilgrims and the Indians.

Not even slightly, but a touching reminder of the earnest daftness of the period.

Abraham takes the piss out of the earnest practice of self branding.

In spite of the earnest quest of good technocrats everywhere, the simple fact is that there are only a few win-win solutions.