Sentence examples for this earnestness from inspiring English sources

Does he worry this earnestness damages his comic image as the scatty dilettante?

There is something jarring about this earnestness, which telegraphs "importance" in a way that makes the heartfelt speech seem like the only real gimmick in the show.

This earnestness permeates the book, making it the kind of pop memoir you couldn't possibly mistake for, say, Keith Richards's Life.

It feels a strange sort of intimacy, this earnestness to be so near, something blunt and compelling, but the smile never drops from Hoy's face, holding fast and sure like a sentry.

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Hollywood is full of directors who made their name with a small-scale thoughtful movie, and then promptly put this earnestness behind them with a shift up to the megabudget big league.

He has an easy confidence about him, a kind of let's-solve-this-problem earnestness.

(Slow-motion interludes, set to classic soul songs, underscore this heroic earnestness).

"I'm interested in weighty stuff, but this oversaturated earnestness, that angst — ugh, enough.

But at the last minute, Schweik rescues us from this dark earnestness.

The writer hopes that, with all this political earnestness, there will be room for nastiness, silliness, rebellion, and a sense of darkness.