Sentence examples for then earnest from inspiring English sources

At first this prim choreography seems tongue-in-cheek, then earnest, and finally almost silly — and all the more charming for it, like much of the orchestrated seduction that is a night at Maison Premiere.

If the 2015 tip lists are to be taken as gospel, then earnest male solo artists – or, more especially, earnest male solo artists wearing ludicrous hats – are going to be huge next year.

Journals seized from Ulbricht's laptop upon his arrest portray Variety Jones as a "mentor" who allegedly urged Ulbricht along, giving the then earnest libertarian sea legs to take on ownership of a site that prosecutors are alleging handled some $1.2 billion in Bitcoin transactions.

Piers Morgan and Donald Trump are going to be in the same room tonight, talking, for an interview on ITV, and you know how it's going to go: Piers Morgan is going to do "hearty talk-over-you banter voice", then "earnest well actually voice", then sign off laughing to the camera at a joke nobody actually made, and then they are both going to go on Twitter and say how good an interview it was.

So far, so earnest – but then he throws in a the most evil of curveballs.

Then, an earnest evocation of solidarity, the gift of oneness: "Laura Dern seems amazing.

"He had to clean up inside the organization first, then, in earnest, got into the gambling counteractivities," Mr. Jones said.

Then the earnest faces of singers engaged in a startling unanimity of purpose come into focus on dozens of small screens.

Branwell, then a earnest 19-year-old, encloses one of his own poems, and expresses his hopes and dreams of building "mansions in the sky". in jailors' boots.

Then these earnest, ambitious men can turn in good conscience to their coming project, a new Italian restaurant where San Domenico was.

But he then turns earnest and reads a text that, he says, he wrote that very day (and it's actually handwritten) — one in which he addresses Trump supporters, "the dispossessed," who are members of the "former middle class," people who've lost jobs and health insurance, who may have lost their homes and their savings, and who, he says, have "lost everything but the right to vote".