earnest
Example Sentences
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Basking in a post-breakup glow, Sudan Archives’ new sound is as carefree and earnest as the way of life she’s cultivating.
From Los Angeles Times
This action inspires lovely, shimmering visuals of delicate luminescence, but Mr. Cameron’s references to becoming one with the environment would make the most earnest hippie folk singer blush.
Butler was intrigued, but had to wait for the script before he could work on the music in earnest.
From Los Angeles Times
More earnest are photos taken in that state’s botanical gardens, depicting the ways people tend to plants in environments where they don’t belong.
Avuncular and experienced, he advises her to be more likable, which seems futile, because everyone she meets quickly gets exasperated by her combination of earnest idealism and hall-monitor insistence.
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