Sentence examples for treating earnestness from inspiring English sources
In a land justly famous for treating earnestness with irony, Blair is all business, often beginning sentences with a cut-the-nonsense "Look" and then moving into a corporate-retreat inspirational rhetoric that a lot of people find simply sanctimonious.
Only in this faux disaster, the participants — some of whom have spent years immersing themselves in the subject — were treating it with deadly earnestness.
But after hearing the boy's account, he says "with the kind of earnestness all children hope to receive from adults: 'You are the finest listener I've ever met.' " Buoyed by the rare encouragement, "I told him how I treated every day like a requiem," Kuusisto writes.
The sentiments are earnest, but earnestness has its price.
(Baldwin can be quite earnest, even as he keeps an ironic eye on his earnestness).
The earnestness was palpable.
Arthur makes earnestness endearing.
He did everything with precision and earnestness.
They have a national allergy to earnestness.
