Sentence examples for when earnest from inspiring English sources

I remember blinking at the screen in disbelief when Earnest Byner made his famous fumble, losing the 1988 American Football Conference championship.

The turnaround from twenty-four hours earlier, when Earnest had been calling Israel's shelling of the Jabaliya shelter indefensible, could not have been starker.

In Washington, this is always a time of innocent hope, when earnest budgeteers look for unnecessary programs to ax so they can prove to the country that government is efficient.

You know you have found yourself at a beefsteak-for-beefsteak's-sake when earnest young men quote Joe Mitchell on the orthodox use of Worcestershire-and-butter sauce or on the necessary practice of foreswearing all utensils.

In the show's second episode, when Earnest finds himself in jail (not to be confused with Ernest Goes to Jail), he sees an inmate who is clearly mentally ill.

Tofog (as fans call the group) has been together longer than Mr. Crowe has been famous, and its songs reflect a time when earnest yet stylish Aussie bands like Midnight Oil and INXS turned pub rock theatrical.

"Oh, this is the dwarf," she said, upbeat, when earnest-faced Tyrion Lannister appeared in the dragons' lair.

When an earnest undergraduate quizzed the aged E M Forster about the good life, the novelist is supposed to have replied: "Don't ask about the good life.

Although Mr. Affleck can be appealing when playing earnest young men groping toward maturity, he simply lacks the gravitas for the role.

The encounter between geeks and seekers generates some fine comic moments — as when an earnest young code writer (Patrick Riester) falls into the clutches of a swinging older couple (Chris Doubek and Cyndi Williams) — and an intriguing sociological connection.

When an earnest, slightly nerdy 29-year-old called Eric Weiss applied for a job in 1994 as an administrative assistant at the law firm of Holme, Roberts and Owen in Denver, there was no reason to turn him away.