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Example sentences for: earnest

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Artaud began drawing in earnest around 1944.
With its belligerent grossness and misogyny, Hustler rebelled against the establishment men's mags' class condescension, the earnest philosophizing about the sexual revolution, the "thinking men's sex bomb" syndrome, at the same time that it was deliberately goading feminists.
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.
Others say the film has the "earnest simplicity of a freshman philosophy paper" (Jack Mathews, the Los Angeles Times ) and "ends in the cheesiest of plot twists" (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). (Stills and clips are available here.)
At last, he entered the room, the saint himself,Moulay Madani, in a white head scarf and caftanThe fading blue of a map's Moroccan coastline,Its hem embroidered with geometric ports of call.A rugged sixty, with a longshoreman's jaw,A courtier's guile, and a statesman's earnest pauses,He first explained the crescent dagger he fingeredHad been made two centuries ago by a clever Jew.Then he squinted for my reaction.