Sentence examples for turn earnest from inspiring English sources

Grown-up iconoclasts turn earnest, though, and so have the Fugs.

Abruptly the film's tone turn earnest, as Mary interviews the parents of a teenager involved in a gang murder.

"Stewart, in that post-9/11 period, he took those moments of seriousness, the moment where the comic needs to turn earnest – these symbolically important moments" and made them his own, Scepanski said.

His letters from the period are snapshots of his late adolescence, by turns earnest and silly.

Brown paused and turned earnest: "I want to do the most good I can do with this," he said.

By turns earnest and wicked, sweet and sarcastic and unsparing, Mr. Richards, now 66, writes with uncommon candor and immediacy.

Those lines are part of an unsettling monologue, and they're not the only compelling moments in a story that is by turns earnest and odd, tender and disturbing.

Her tone is by turns earnest ("Cold cases tear at my heart strings") and flippant ("If it looks like a turd and smells like a turd... chances are it's a turd").

Adult friendship tends to adopt the vocabulary of intimacy from relationships: Gould's characters, like hookup buddies turned earnest, have a self-conscious "define-the-relationship" conversation to establish their best-friendship; Heti's pair circle and court one another.

By David Denby The New Yorker, April 10, 2000 P. 99 THE CURRENT CINEMA reviews of "Black and White" and "Joe Gould's Secret"... "Black and White" is a dangerous comedy, by turns earnest and malicious.

By turns earnest and coy, tender and ironic, the book made it clear that Mr. Eggers was not simply using narrative innovations for their own sake, but that those techniques were a potent and utilitarian defense mechanism, a means of achieving detachment while alchemizing pain and loss into art.