Sentence examples for though earnestly from inspiring English sources

The Riesters, though earnestly obedient, did not understand why the two groups were discouraged from fraternizing; why, for example, the priests and brothers had separate recreation rooms.

Puddicombe is full of these kinds of insights and analogies, which, though earnestly delivered, have a way of sounding as if they were lifted from a decorative pillow.

The problem, Brooks thought, was that the scene did not lend itself to history painting: "a group of men, wearing the somber-hued garments of American gentlemen, assembled in a plainly furnished apartment, though earnestly discussing a matter which is now historic, does not furnish a tempting subject for the tricks and bewildering cheats of art".

Problems arise, though, when we earnestly seek racism where clearly none exists.

Though often invoked earnestly, "The Secret Agent" is essentially a satire of British and European attitudes toward terrorism and counterterrorism.

With a typically sly smile, Mr. Schäuble insisted that he had drunk fewer than five Tannenzäpfle the day before, though adding more earnestly, "but not around a car".

In one of our conversations, when we had already come to know each other well and were talking amicably, though as always, earnestly, I asked her why she felt so comfortable sitting on a nuclear powder keg.

Asked to compare his position on Cuba to Rubio's and Obama's, Trump said, "I think I'm somewhere in the middle" — and for a moment it seemed as though he was earnestly trying to figure it all out.

At its centre is Janusz, played earnestly though also sometimes with a slightly flavourless efficiency, by the 29-year-old British actor Jim Sturgess; he is a Pole whose young wife is tortured by the Soviets into denouncing him as a spy.

For starters, while Bush is earnestly (though perhaps not explicitly) rebranding himself as a moderate centrist, riffing on his brother's "Compassionate Conservative" mantra, his record as governor of Florida which he talked up for most of Monday's speech tells a different story.

He bawls earnestly and unprettily -- though often with the telltale sound of Auto-Tune -- in the tradition of Britpop, even quoting an Oasis lyric.