Sentence examples for true earnestness from inspiring English sources

We utter these words, in true earnestness, and the utterance becomes an act of charity.

The sentiments are earnest, but earnestness has its price.

And the second anything aiming for earnestness doesn't ring true, the whole thing crumbles and cynicism wins.

Also, the combination of grim earnestness and dreamy pathos is entirely true to life.

Ms. Paulson's teary earnestness in the climactic scene rings true, and yet it's not the whole story.

But are such forays into earnestness advisable in a novel like this? True, they do underline Johnson's critique of contemporary America as a culture rich in everything except the warmth of human connection.

They kept saying, 'We have a singleness of purpose in Russia, while in America you're completely competitive and you're always cancelling out each other's good effects.' They said it with such earnestness — they were really convinced it was true.

It has long been my experience that true political importance is in inverse proportion to the earnestness of expression and the rapidity of progress through the corridors of power.

It sounds like rad-speak, and it's true Peralta is prone to the kind of ultra-earnestness that, in Dogtown and Z-Boys, leads him to write about the birth of aerial boarding like the first manned spaceflight.

It's true there was a great mood of take-your-vitamins earnestness about the middlebrow enterprise.

This is true even when the play takes a turn into Clifford Odets-style earnestness at the end, a detour that is of a piece with the play's theme but not with its jaunty, double-edged tone.