Using "earnest" in a sentence

Lundgren fully disappears into the role of the frazzled doctor, earning big laughs as his character banters with earnest butler, Etienne (Dan Fessenden), and unwelcome visitor, Bassinet (Dustin Berube).
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With the new NFL season—and the new fantasy-football season—kicking off in earnest today, we are in all likelihood about to see the wildest batch of punishments yet.
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But Sea Change is too earnest to be read as anything but a genuine expression of Beck’s broken heart, translated into music so impeccable that it ultimately elicits joy.
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Instead, the Virginia-based Mutant Academy figurehead has conveyed an earnest sense of his personality and emotional tendencies across the album that include a series of skits unearthed from voice memos on the rapper’s phone.
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"Now he gets to play this awkward, non-threatening, seemingly well-meaning earnest fellow who's trying to make it right by the customers.
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Also read: Clara Honsinger three-peats at 2022 US Cyclocross National Championship How it happened Snowfall that began to fall in earnest during the women’s elite race earlier in the afternoon had intensified into a full snowstorm the time the men took to the start line.
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The hubris is that Coulter believes only she can keep Lyra safe, but her plea to Will to stay and help protect Lyra is as earnest as anything she’s ever said.
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When asked about Starbucks’ “Medicine Ball” that’s the earnest commentary Jenny Hagendorf, MS, RDN, LD, CSOWM, in San Antonio, had to share about the buzzy beverage.
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  The company’s long-term vision for sustainability started in earnest in 2013, long before the mega trend toward sustainable solutions began.
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Which Side Are You On by Ryan Lee Wong (October 4)Ryan Lee Wong’s debut, Which Side Are You On (Catapult) is a sharply observed story of an earnest Asian American activist considering dropping out of college to dedicate himself to organizing.
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Hours after Trump’s hand-picked candidate, Herschel Walker, failed to pick up a Democratic seat, the blame game began in earnest – in large part directed at the former president.
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State of play: The Commission’s revamped Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive was published at the end of November, meaning negotiations on the file will begin in earnest next year.
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This, in a nutshell, is Reali, a man so earnest even his clichés scan as sincere.
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But to fully appreciate the earnest rhapsody of showbiz achievement and personal happiness Lemercier has to offer, you have to giggle and eyebrow-raise your way past a 50-something performer’s decision to play Aline starting in childhood.
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By then, life will be continuing in earnest for Paige and Codi.
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Knudsen already has serious acting chops, and gives a moving performance as she transitions from carefree tween to earnest caretaker.
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From goth teens to zombie teens to earnest teens (and teen eshays), the stories of young people coming of age amid unrest and uncertainty spoke to a whole generation of viewers going through it, too.
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Being earnest and vulnerable is kind of a social faux pas among us millennials.
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Customers were to be educated by earnest servers newly versed in the intricacies of terroir and production and eager to share.
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“I do,” said the earnest Cassidy.
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 (rh2010/Adobe) In Seth MacFarlane’s off-beat homage to Star Trek, The Orville, the increasingly earnest show becomes a series of cautionary tales.
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And I no longer had to shoot weddings, food, and events! Then we started fundraising in earnest, doing more projects, getting the work out farther.
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His earnest affection for Cuddy and the way he speaks about his late wife – who hangs over the chamber in a knife-wielding portrait – give the character a warmth you don’t normally see from a classical monarch, as when he delivers a speech where every sentence breaks down into a broad physical gesture.
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The company has been putting the general connectivity building blocks in place over the past two years and has now begun in earnest to sign up commercial clients with acute need for cost-effective broadband connectivity in the most remote places, such as the high seas.
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The defense began to emerge in earnest in Week 7, when the Bengals manhandled the Ravens, sacking Lamar Jackson five times, in a 41-17 victory.
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In the metaverse, they engaged in earnest academic debate over the benefits and risks of space exploration, the definitions of life and sentient artificial-intelligent life, the reasons for possible exploration and settlement of the moon and Mars, and the ethics of "terrestrial" climate change and the militarization of space.
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Its final pages are his most earnest and compelling narrative, covering the bitterness he felt over so many friends and supporters abandoning him in the 1974 race against David Pryor, when he thought he would surely win back the office he had so cherished.
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Instagram and TikTok users didn't hold back with their comments, with some wondering if Dash was being earnest or if she was really that .
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Mental health stigma, undocumented immigration, Latina entrepreneurship and what it means to embody two cultures (American and Palestinian) are just a few of the subjects that creators Mohammed Amer and Ramy Youssef humanize in this earnest and genuinely funny series.
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Like the early seasons of Parks and Recreation that juxtaposed Leslie Knope’s earnest admiration of government work alongside her cynical colleagues, Bonnet is hilariously adrift as a cheery, eccentric leader of outlaws.
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“Microdosing” sparkles with this sense of hope with its unhurried pace and earnest vocals, singing memorable melodies: “Wait / Another day / No harm in being safe.
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The trend began in earnest in 2020 following a late 2019 TikTok post from Eric Torres-Garcia with a caption, “Would anyone buy these?”.
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The new edition of “Paper Crown” is marked by its clean production and Benjamin’s earnest delivery, which made him stand out upon the song’s original release and has helped him gain a sizable fan base in the years since.
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In this production, Michael Metcalf (Arthur) makes an earnest attempt to be a serious King committed to creating a just society.
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He immediately conveyed his disgust and disappointment about Ye’s comments, and he has been deeply remorseful since, expressing an earnest and heartfelt desire to take responsibility for his actions and help to heal any wounds he caused.
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With the long overdue celebration of Bennett now in the rearview mirror, Georgia and Bennett can begin focusing in earnest on their task ahead.
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The series centers on Joyce (Ophelia Lovibond), described as “an earnest young feminist who joins forces with a low-rent publisher (Jake Johnson) to create the first erotic magazine for women.
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He also made an earnest attempt to launch a cannabis brand.
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Here, we primarily see things through the eyes of the earnest and overeager second-grade teacher Janine Teagues (Quinta Brunson, also Abbott's showrunner), who rubs all of her fellow educators the wrong way.
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" What’s next: Illinois had multiple development practices last week and will start its bowl prep in earnest this week.
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Trevor Noah’s seven-year tenure as host of “The Daily Show” came to an end last week, and despite issuing what came across as an earnest and heartfelt goodbye, he will not be missed.
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Alberta’s tech winter arrived late but in earnest in Q3 2022 2022 has still already surpassed the previous three years in Alberta venture funding.
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Finally, Quaxly, the Water Duckling Pokémon, is an "earnest and tidy" water-type that possesses the Torrent ability.
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An album such as From Under The Cork Tree matches the earnest love songs that blink provided on their Untitled record.
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Screenwriter Patrick Aison can be forgiven for laying on the feminist themes a bit thickly, since for every earnest or overly self-aware moment there’s one or more scenes of the Predator slaying his victims with undeniable panache.
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Dylan likes these sort of apothegms: There are more songs about shoes than there are about hats, pants, and dresses combined; There is nothing scarier than someone earnest in their delusion.
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If you jibe with Sense8's diverse characters, you'll fall head over heels for this earnest and sensual sci-fi drama.
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The singing is earnest if uneven, while Dave Dobrusky helms a lively five-person band.
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She answers the question ‘Why are your problems so much bigger than everyone else’s?’ with the earnest response ‘Because they’re mine.
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The earnest speaker of this truth is 30-something scientist Elizabeth Zott, the protagonist of Bonnie Garmus’ debut novel “Lessons in Chemistry.
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His earnest point of view is wholly relatable and a moving testament to one’s shared humanity.
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CLICK HERE to back Brun with Sky BetFourth in this field in strokes-gained total last season, with Detry and Burmester only just in front of him, Brun enjoyed a fine rookie campaign which began in earnest when he got in the mix in Abu Dhabi, a Rolex Series event played by the sea and in a stiff breeze.
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At the same time, “she was a generous woman, fond of the young and earnest in her desire to help.
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I am fascinated by how hard Ad-Rock and Mike D are working, how earnest and penitent and tender and charismatic they’ve been in talking about their past, and apologizing for the uglier aspects of their past.
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She didn’t try in earnest until she was an attending physician, starting with essays about patient care after moving to Omaha in 2005.
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Troll, on the other hand, combines elements of kaiju cinema — the ‘monster’ at the centre of this movie is alternately described as Godzilla and King Kong — with the earnest awe of the Jurassic Park series.
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I love how earnest and hardworking everyone is, and the love, family and community where I come from.
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The movie opens in earnest with Tucker (Harrison Marx) and Ralph (Charlie Ferrera) pounding down drinks at a bar while playing the “Royal Game of Ur.
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After going radio silent on social media for a few months post the Oscar debacle, Smith has recently begun to post both earnest and promotional material again to his 63.
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Even the smallest errand can be done in earnest when it’s serving your deeper desires.
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He understands human nature veers toward comfort, fashion and fads, but, he argues, it shouldn’t overlook scientific studies or eliminate the quest for better running form—no matter if that’s for injury prevention, performance enhancement or an earnest desire just to improve.
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Dylan likes these sort of apothegms:“There are more songs about shoes than there are about hats, pants, and dresses combined”;“There is nothing scarier than someone earnest in their delusion”.
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But here, there’s neither the ironic backspin that can elevate a terrible joke nor an earnest commitment to really be about what the show purports to be about.
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The work of Barboza has been acclaimed by many critics and historians, including Aaron Bryant, curator of photography and visual culture at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, who stated that “Barboza has captured earnest moments of humanity.
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He studied for a year at Texas Western College (now the University of Texas at El Paso), then, under the influence of Jack Kerouac, hitchhiked to Los Angeles, where he began pursuing his career in earnest before relocating to New York and studying under Uta Hagen at the HB Studio.
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As Moritz, Ruebeck is earnest and affecting, and he smashes through "Don't Do Sadness," an anthem of despair.
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It feels right, at first, to see Daniel Radcliffe play Al as an earnest dork.
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Sullivan in particular packs histories of hurt into her performance, and watching Ani’s defiant pride slowly give in to Eddie’s earnest advances is frighteningly recognizable.
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Youth cleaning fish in the market Mr Mandalama, the chairman, said activities have resumed in earnest but some of his members are feeling the impact of the insurgency.
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Director: Revathy Salaam Venky Movie Review Out(Photo Credit –Poster From Salaam Venky) What’s Good: It is an earnest attempt in telling a story about a dying man determined to make his existence worthwhile and a mother’s anguish and zest to give her son the best passing.
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This is not one of those earnest movies to suffer through because someone has told you, "Hey, this will be good for you to see.
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“You can even put the plant in the hole in the pot, cover it with soil, and plant it in earnest (remove the pot) in the spring,” he suggests.
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Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said the United States expects to see a "reduced tempo" in the fighting in Ukraine to continue over the next few months before counteroffensives resume in earnest in the spring.
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Starting in earnest in 2017, Italy and Malta have increasingly abdicated their responsibilities to coordinate and operate rescues at sea in favor of Libyan authorities and obstructed in myriad ways the work of nongovernmental rescue groups both at sea and in the air.
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Dyck’s earnest enthusiasm for research involving the distribution of critical metals like lithium, which are crucial for transitioning to green energy.
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Captain Planet was always too earnest to be much fun, and “A Formula for Hate” is stiffer than usual.
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It is fascinating to find out that the all-but foundling actor was essentially “adopted” in a Pygmalion-like twist by his acting teacher, with Burton assuming the earnest and naive Eliza Doolittle role in that relationship.
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But beyond the marketing messages, and the overly earnest celebrity rhetoric, it is a very pure and simple concept.
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Famously proposed 50 years ago, such fixes, or ‌gene therapies, began earnest development in 1989.
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Lionel Messi: craft beer Obviously amazing, but you sometimes wish earnest men would stop telling you this so frequently.
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) The Tigers have a long way to go before they’re competitive again, but the process to gather prospects has begun in earnest with the Jiménez swap.
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ImageMythical is a smorgasbord of comedy, confessional podcasts and reality TV-inspired taste tests, seasoned with earnest humor and fronted by hosts with camera-ready hairdos.
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but that’s life inside the world of an earnest American sitcom!”But for some TikTok users in the autistic community who were fans of the show when it aired, the resurfaced clip affected them differently.
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- World Cup 2022: News and features | ScheduleThe players scattered within a day of the tournament ending for them, and their next steps are fairly clear as club football resumes in earnest almost immediately.
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Candid, unflinching, earnest and cathartic, this is a healing read.
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But since it actually came out in 2022, it stood out to me as an earnest celebration of good old fashioned late-20th-century rock culture that (fortunately) never goes completely out of style.
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 Often, the film drifts into being a straightforward sci-fi thriller with Jeff and Abnesti working against each other's interests, and Kosinski struggles to balance the humor with earnest pathos.
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This largely earnest effort fits alongside the overtly satirical Walk Hard with the truths it displays about its genre — which is that, despite the pretenses of importance, the biopic is more often than not an excuse for playacting.
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Once a niche pursuit for earnest vegans and volunteer kidney donors who lived frugally so that they would have more money to give away for cheap medical interventions in developing countries, it has emerged as a significant force in philanthropy, especially in millennial and Gen-Z giving.
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 “SMOKING FETUS” brought Fincher to the attention of Propoganda Films, who subsequently signed him on in earnest, effectively launching his career.
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She didn’t try in earnest until she was an attending physician, starting with essays about patient care after moving to Omaha in 2005.
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