Sentence examples for we are earnest from inspiring English sources

And perhaps this is not a regrettable fact: "At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable" (Walden, XVII).

And we were earnest and naive and square.

Some are earnest.

Some schools are earnest digital adopters.

Because they are earnest and never blink.

These are earnest policy sermons.

Sometimes her intentions are earnest.

They are earnest, but they are mistaken.

Such impulses are earnest but fundamentally misguided.

Yet we are astonishingly earnest about pretending to worship an entirely different set of principles.

Recently, Time Out published a cartoon of us: we are scrawny, earnest, our clothes so fashionable we look like Edwardian urchins, with designer glasses and bushy beards.