be in earnest
Example Sentences
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Those imams who still counsel against jihadist terrorism, says Kepel, may be in earnest.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Washington, Reagan Administration officials stressed that the Soviet leader's reform efforts seem to be in earnest, and avoided dashing hopes for better U.S.-Soviet ties.
From Time Magazine Archive
His words, his looks, his whole attitude, proclaimed him to be in earnest.
From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid
I fancy that for you, if the English Government be in earnest, there will be no absolutely safe place short of the free city of Frankfort.
From The Story of Francis Cludde by Stanley John Weyman
Everybody whom I shall have must be in earnest.
From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
