Since there is a certain earnestness and intensity. From Wordnik.com. [Liliana Rodrigues: Behind the Lens of Dutch Photographer Anton Corbijn] Reference
And what deep earnestness is conveyed by the redoubling of this title!. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Kev, I tend tend be jovial by nature but I do not accept that earnestness is the same as seriousness. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Raging in Islington] Reference
Human prudence is not willing to perform every duty in earnestness and humility, and trust the rest to Providence. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother's Book] Reference
It could use a little more wisecracking and a little less breathless earnestness, but breathless earnestness is just so you!!!!. From Wordnik.com. [Frequently Asked Questions] Reference
The worrying and earnestness is my job — the playing and innocence is Miss Baby’s. From Wordnik.com. [When Bad Things Happen To Good Dolls | Her Bad Mother] Reference
It warms my old heart still to recall the earnestness and calm courage of that summer fortnight of preparation. From Wordnik.com. [In the Valley] Reference
Their earnestness is a rebuke to us who make so little effort to bring our comrades within the healing influence of our Lord. From Wordnik.com. [The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition] Reference
Does she ever have that "earnestness" thing right. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
But "earnestness" in trying to move the Rubik's Cube of the region into alignment is flawed. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Clemons: Give Us Netanyahu. Please.] Reference
And yet I feel something under the posturing, some kind of earnestness that seems profoundly familiar. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia Woolf reads K. Silem Mohammad] Reference
Around in earnestness of soul. From Wordnik.com. [Letter 66] Reference
I call the earnestness which dares not trifle. From Wordnik.com. [The Saint's Tragedy] Reference
Russell was deeply impressed with Phizo's "earnestness" for a peaceful settlement. From Wordnik.com. [Countercurrents.org] Reference
That should be sought first and with the greatest earnestness which is most worth. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference
She was going to interrupt me, with a prohibitory kind of earnestness in her manner. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7] Reference
This kind of earnestness is particularly disarming coming from a card-carrying cynic like R.T. From Wordnik.com. [Stereophile RSS Feed] Reference
These masters gave an example of solidity and earnestness which is characteristic of their work. From Wordnik.com. [Beethoven A Character Study]
In him we meet a kind of earnestness which seems to interpret and fit in with the austere aspects of the landscape. From Wordnik.com. [Among Famous Books] Reference
"earnestness," with that in him which came to him from his father. From Wordnik.com. [A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1] Reference
"do or die" earnestness, "I reckon I've got the grandmother on now!". From Wordnik.com. [A Little Bush Maid] Reference
A dark kind of earnestness as when he said these words, with his glance bent on the fire. From Wordnik.com. [David Copperfield] Reference
I was afraid it was another kind of earnestness: the kind I shouldn't like if I were you. ". From Wordnik.com. [Ragged Lady — Complete] Reference
"earnestness" which overmasters in it any purely artistic impulse, while infusing a certain fire and unity of its own. From Wordnik.com. [A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1] Reference
But there was something genuine about his earnestness. From Wordnik.com. [Marching to the Same Drummer] Reference
Then laugh at the thought of that, the sad earnestness of it. From Wordnik.com. [That's Grace Too] Reference
Way more somber and even stern in its ambition an and earnestness. From Wordnik.com. [The Inaugural Blog] Reference
The man's earnestness intrigued me enough that I sent him a resume. From Wordnik.com. [Color Blind] Reference
"Automatic for the People" feels dour, like earnestness drained of belief. From Wordnik.com. [HELLO DARKNESS MY OLD FRIEND] Reference
What is unmistakably Keanu is that breathy earnestness when he plays intense. From Wordnik.com. [Goodbye, Airhead] Reference
Far from the earnestness he projects, Gore in fact has a deep sense of the absurd. From Wordnik.com. [Friends For Now] Reference
PROSSame stature as Lennon, a product of the same era and has a similar political earnestness. From Wordnik.com. [Who'll Be The New Fab Fourth?] Reference
I really identified with her, her passion for the issues, her earnestness about doing good works. From Wordnik.com. [Scenes From a Tea for Two] Reference
And when Clinton took his earnestness and good will to Damascus, Assad gave him little to show for it. From Wordnik.com. [On The Road To Damascus] Reference
No. There's an earnestness to Canadian teen soap operas that is sorely lacking in American teen soap operas. From Wordnik.com. [Boston Picks A Wonder Boy] Reference
Back then, political oratory was popular entertainment and there was intense earnestness about public controversies. From Wordnik.com. [ELECTION, NOT CANONIZATION] Reference
We are awash in earnestness, afraid to open our mouths because we never know when our words are going to hurt somebody's feelings. From Wordnik.com. [Come, Let Me Offend You] Reference
"There isn't a lot of room for trust and earnestness because of the younger generation's constant awareness of self-presentation.". From Wordnik.com. [Here’s Looking At You, Kids] Reference
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