What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker.
Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.
Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.
I cannot get him to write or speak in real, solid earnest. I don't much mind it now, but if it be always so, what shall I do with the serious part of myself?
Just because he was pretty didn't mean he couldn't be improved by a smack upside the head with a piece of earnest hickory
We often think that "bad" relationships are motivating by self-loathing or a wish for self-destruction, but I think that loving people who hurt us is more tied to a profound and earnest wish to soothe ourselves and recover from older hurts. And I've also found that having empathy for that urge is the best way to move through it, and beyond it.
All over America there is to be found a large and growing class of earnest, intelligent, progressive colored women. . . many of them warped and cramped for lack of opportunity, not only to do more but to be more.
About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.
I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
There are no perfect answers. The earnest search is all we can expect.
This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.
It was inevitable: Yankel fell in love with his never-wife. He would wake from sleep to miss the weight that never depressed the bed next to him, remember in earnest the weight of gestures she never made, long for the un-weight of her un-arm slung over his too-real chest, making his widower's rememberences that much more convincing and his pain that much more real.
You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.
You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it. . . Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them?
I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice. . . I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.
No man ever made himself to live. No preacher, however earnest, can make one hearer to live. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. “You hath HE quickened,” is true of all who are quickened.
It would be terribly boring to be earnest.