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Example sentences for: earnest

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After months of new disclosures, including the release of transcripts of damning White House conversations, the House Judiciary Committee began impeachment deliberations in earnest on May 9, 1974.
While making Who's That Knocking at My Door , his earnest, autobiographical first feature, independently, Scorsese was hired to edit Woodstock into a coherent film.
It seems unfair to single anyone out, but I loved Reilly's unsettling combination of sweetness and prudery--unsettling because he's just the kind of earnest, by-the-book cop whose wheels move too slowly in a crisis.
Jackson is biting his lower lip sternly, looking earnest and rugged like Clinton sometimes chooses to.
We promise not to do it again," etc, but I can't afford a full page of the paper I work for, let alone of a publication a sincere, earnest gentleman of his ilk would be likely to read.