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Example sentences for: earnest

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But when de Kooning pulled himself together and began painting again in earnest, in 1981, his paintings looked unlike anything he had made before.
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 is a perspective on the world, one that takes advantage of distance and some weirdly skewed point of view to see everyday things--pomposity, convention, higher purposes, and the earnest advancement of points like this one--as ridiculous or sad or just somehow other than what they usually seem.
What happened to the earnest, apolitical, cultural youth described by his boyhood friend August Kubizek--the one who went to the opera every other night and filled his days sketching and writing?
Jackson is biting his lower lip sternly, looking earnest and rugged like Clinton sometimes chooses to.