How To Use Earnest In A Sentence

We may earnestly believe that they're wrong - whether they're non-Christians, heretics, apostates, agnostics, atheists, or what have you.
My hair was matted and wild -- my limbs soiled with salt ooze; while at sea, I had thrown off those of my garments that encumbered me, and the rain drenched the thin summer-clothing I had retained -- my feet were bare, and the stunted reeds and broken shells made them bleed -- the while, I hurried to and fro, now looking earnestly on some distant rock which, islanded in the sands, bore for a moment a deceptive appearance -- now with flashing eyes reproaching the murderous ocean for its unutterable cruelty. III.9
John Malkovich's clever turn as the trainer Lucien Laurin leavens the earnest material. The Short List: A Guide to This Week's Arts and Entertainment
Jonathan's soothing assurances did not satisfy David, and he 'sware' in the earnestness of his conviction. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
In life's earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward and never say fail.

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She speaks earnestly, thoughtfully and funnily about how we are all ‘differently abled ‘in one way or another.’
Thus, in the Western philosophical tradition, occasionalists in the proper sense of the term emerge in earnest in the wake of RenÃ© Descartes (1596 “ 1650) in the form of “Cartesian occasionalists”. Occasionalism
“Night and day praying exceedingly,” that is, praying out of measure, with intense earnestness, superabundantly, beyond measure, exceeding abundantly. The Weapon of Prayer
But, hey, the show is so earnest and eager to please that such things are almost easy to overlook.
But this is a small town as typical as anywhere else in the American heartland: earnest, churchy, amiable, inward-looking, bland, conformist, trusting.
In life's earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward and never say fail.
Her emotion expressed itself in her earnest performance of her reverent daily devotions. Emily Fox-Seton
This psalm is a most solemn and earnest call to all the creatures, according to their capacity, to praise their Creator, and to show forth his eternal power and Godhead, the invisible things of which are manifested in the things that are seen. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
As a rule, beans pollinate themselves so you don't have to worry about unwanted hybrids, courtesy of an earnest bee. Groundwork: Beans, cute and dried
I collapsed in laughter and began tickling him in earnest.
Agrippa, and the rest of his weeping friends earnestly besought him, osculantes obsecrarent ne id quod natura cogeret, ipse acceleraret, not to offer violence to himself, with a settled resolution he desired again they would approve of his good intent, and not seek to dehort him from it: and so constantly died, precesque eorum taciturna sua obstinatione depressit. Anatomy of Melancholy
Now the woman's voice came to them calling earnestly, "Sahib, sahib, sahib!" she cried. Jack Haydon's Quest
On life's earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward and never say fail.
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'Nay, but to live/In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,/Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love/Over the nasty sty!' he arraigns his mother in his earnest undertaking to force her to consider what she is doing (3.4). Shakespeare
I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. First Open Thread-- What's on your mind? Log in and add your comments
Wesley was blessed with a living experience of Christ and from the time of his conversion became an earnest evangelist who spent the rest of his long life preaching the gospel.
In many respects it is conducted in more earnest, for higher stakes, and against greater odds than political life in liberal democracies.
The constant barrage of earnestly delivered silliness should win over even the hardest hearts.
Trusting in her intercession with Christ, who whereas He is the "one mediator of God and men" (1 Timothy ii, 5), chose to make His Mother the advocate of sinners, and the minister and mediatress of grace, as an earnest of heavenly gifts and as a token of Our paternal affection we most lovingly impart the Apostolic Blessing to you, Venerable Brethren, and to all the flock committed to your care. Latest Articles
To love someone in secret is like a seed in bottle waiting for growing up, though not sure whether the future will be more beautiful, still waiting it earnestly and eagerly.
In life's earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward and never say fail.
If both must be taken or rejected together, an alternative which we emphatically deny, what sincere and earnest thinker now, whose will is unterrifiedly consecrated to truth, can be expected to hesitate long? The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
-- 'And surely,' he continues, 'if the purpose be in good earnest, _not to write at leisure that which men may read at leisure_' -- note it -- that which men may read at leisure -- 'but really to The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
The worrying and earnestness is my job — the playing and innocence is Miss Baby’s. When Bad Things Happen To Good Dolls | Her Bad Mother
It is because the Spirit is an earnest of our inheritance, that his indwelling is a seal. A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians
I cannot recall the avowal of my earnest and deep attachment to you, and I do not recall it. ' Our Mutual Friend
The truth was more that the agenda didn't fit with her sincere and earnest style, so why should she change in order to fit it?
He is a physically imposing man, tall and big-boned, who looks as earnest and stern as a Presbyterian minister.
Mrs. Honoria leaned her two round arms on the mezzanine rail, and looked long and earnestly down upon the caucussing lobby throng. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush
Roxie Hart is about as far away as one can get from the earnest soap operatics of Kitty Foyle.
These fanatics are in deadly earnest when they say they want to destroy all forms of government.
She warned me earnestly, however, not to "worrit" the girl by asking her all sorts of questions. ' Aylwin
Then a woman who may or may not be a real polygrapher comes on the screen to say with convincing earnestness, "All the polygraph examiners really try to make a person feel more at ease. Buzz on lie detectors is all a lie, NSA video says
With this new danger menacing him, the young cragsman lay flat down on the rock, and remained motionless, while he offered up an earnest prayer to Heaven that the bird might not discover him. Harper's Young People, November 11, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly
Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest.
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But this is a small town as typical as anywhere else in the American heartland: earnest, churchy, amiable, inward-looking, bland, conformist, trusting.
To love someone in secret is like a seed in bottle waiting for growing up, though not sure whether the future will be more beautiful, still waiting it earnestly and eagerly.
I attended the public schools where I was properly "hazed" and got what was "coming" to all country boys; finally I graduated under the tutelage of Dr. Joseph Finch (a patriot indeed, who made a lasting impress for earnestness on thousands of boys), and then went to business as an entry clerk with a large importing metal house, where I remained until the war broke out. Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After
She received, also, a little, though mournful, reprieve from terror, by a letter from Lisbon, written to again postpone the return of Mrs. Tyrold, at the earnest request of Mr. Relvil; and she flattered herself that, before her arrival, she should be enabled to resume those only duties which could draw her from despondence. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
The ancient Mariner earnestly entreateth the Hermit to shrieve him; and the penance of life falls on him. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
As he sliced bread for the meal Brother Danny chuckled at the intensely earnest youth.
The manuscript so abridged, is submitted to you, with the earnest prayer, that if published, it may subserve the cause of truth and good citizenship. The Conflict of Truth
Saddam begins earnestly, from his position behind his desk, looking kind of natty in a light grey double breasted jacket and a white Panama hat with a black hat band, "This will take away some of the son's love for the father. Merrill Markoe: Hygiene Tips: Saddam's Forgotten Legacy
Our whims and caprices are discanted on with apparent earnestness of truth, and seeming sincerity of conviction. The Drama
But this pressure can only be effective if the people are in earnest. Times, Sunday Times
It is, in my judgment, a very laudable course of some churches, that use, for the next three days together, to desire the congregation to join in earnest prayer to God for the opening of the sinner's eyes, and the softening of his heart, and the saving of him from impenitency and eternal death. The Reformed Pastor
His advice and support during the two games I stood as umpire was very detailed, earnest and helpful.
Byron may have been playing at soldiers, but at the same time he was in deadly earnest.
Tries earnestly to out-extreme the original programming at HBO, but just ends up like the wigger trying to be cool in a room full of black people.
I saw her gazing earnestly at her brother's portrait and all the precious little objects consecrated to his memory, which I had arranged by my benitier and crucifix, but I did not expect her firs exclamation, when our woman had left us: 'Ah! Madame, how happy you are!' Stray Pearls
It is more than ten years since ministers turned their attention in earnest to the country's 388 further education colleges. Times, Sunday Times
The _caboceer_ had a house and a stock of provisions ready for his guests, put many questions, and earnestly pressed them to rest for two or three days. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative
For the state, I am a man prejudicated in their opinion, and not the better liked of them that have earnestly followed the general, and, being one that wants both opinion and experience with them I have to deal, and means to win more or to maintain that which is left, what good may be looked for? History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89 — Complete
Towards the end of the film, when an altercation with the earnest young locksmith erupts abruptly into violence, he retreats into religious superstition as a means of rationalising a seemingly inexplicable plot development.
Typically, presidential campaigns do not begin in earnest until Labor Day, after both parties' nominating conventions.
That girl P'ing Erh," she exclaimed, "has gone mad, and if this hussey does in real earnest wish to try and get the upper hand of me, it would be well for you to mind your skin. Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books
I cannot recall the avowal of my earnest and deep attachment to you, and I do not recall it.’ Our Mutual Friend
Between their comic-relief scenes — like collaring guys in hot dog costumes — Renzulli's wisecracks, Jamie's wet-behind-the-ears earnestness and their effortless rapport, it's easy to see why fans are yearning for more. Blue Bloods' Oddly Perfect Partners Building on "Great Chemistry"
One of my favourites was an earnest mature student from Nigeria with whom I spent a year studying computer systems design. Times, Sunday Times
There is a quote beloved of earnest young sportsmen, and the coaches shouting pick‑me-ups at them through a loudhailer: "Life is not a dress rehearsal. Sebastian Coe must be running on Jedi mind control| Emma John
At his best with hyperearnest Creed-style rock numbers, he couldn't deliver a song that required the least bit of funk or humor, as he proved on Tuesday's Elvis night with a couple of plodding numbers including a dirgelike rendition of A Little Less Conversation. American Idol Fails to Tinker with Taylor - Tuned In - TIME.com
In the movie, Jason Bateman's earnest lawyer and family man, Dave, gets a faceful of feces while changing a diaper. 'Apes': Something to Thump Chests About
All these folks bring a serious earnestness to their roles, which nicely matches the show's overall tone.
It is my earnest wish that you use this money to continue you study of music.
They thought that nirvana was a state of "non-existence" because they earnestly believed that this was the only way for them to ever achieve a lasting state of serenity.
The director goes one step further with his contemporary spin by garbing actors with clothes that look like something out of The Importance of Being Earnest.
This determination, however, perfectly consistent with his former advice, he calls indelicate, and earnestly persuades his daughters to conceal it, though it may govern their conduct; - as if it were indelicate to have the common appetites of human nature. A vindication of the rights of woman
Still, his success at the polls permitted his quiet confidence he was safe in the knowledge that the importance of being earnest had paid off.
In the City of Elua, the revelry would begin in earnest that day, and by evenfall, the salons of reception would be overflowing in the Court of Night-Blooming Flowers, as Kushiel's Avatar
So Martin contaminated Professor Caldwell with his own earnestness, challenging him to speak his mind. Chapter 27
MR: By the way, never before has the word "anti-depressant" been sung so earnestly. Mike Ragogna: Jill Scott's Video Exclusive, Plus Chatting With The Wombats and The Postelles, and More
She spoke lightly, but it was obvious that she was very much in earnest.
Proteus, now looking earnestly upon her, plainly perceived that the page was no other than Julia.
The charity which we should thus bear to ourselves is the model of that which we owe to our neighbour, whom we are to love _as ourselves_, not with the same intensity, but with the same quality of love, wishing him the good, human and divine, temporal and eternal, which we wish for ourselves, though not so earnestly as we wish it for ourselves. Moral Philosophy
As an earnest of my good intentions I will reconsider your request.
The earnest performances of Ford and Pitt are finally overshadowed by the cliches of the genre.
For instance, hundreds of thousands of non-British Canadians, who suffered in undeserved idleness during ten depression years, are today enjoying full employment, their labour earnestly courted by the nation at war. Canada and Immigration
Throughout, Tait notes that Witherspoon's sermons were earnest, clear, precise, direct, and unembellished by rhetorical flourishes.
This affair being settled to his satisfaction, and the night at odds with morning, he took an opportunity of imparting to the ear of this aged dulcinea a kind whisper, importing a promise of visiting her when his sister should be retired to her own chamber, and an earnest desire of leaving her door unlocked. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
But it very quickly degenerates into a flatfooted, predictable affair with a thumpingly earnest moral message. Times, Sunday Times
Billy had said this in joke, for he had never conceived of such a thing as a spring of hot water, but he found that his jest might have been said in earnest, for the spring was almost "bilin '," and caused the Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn
To love someone in secret is like a seed in bottle waiting for growing up, though not sure whether the future will be more beautiful, still waiting it earnestly and eagerly.
The Conservative leader tells the paper that while he was "outflanked" by Clegg in the TV debate, voters will dismiss the Lib Dems as a serious contender once they learn more about the party's policies. says Labour is now "wooing" Clegg "in earnest" amid mouting speculation there will be a hung parlaiment. The Guardian World News
In contrast, Louis's work had a clear subject, was raw, simple, direct, earnest.
Economic decline could begin in earnest before 2050 as the ageing population outstrips the workforce required to pay for them. Times, Sunday Times
Such a policy would change the atmosphere and call the Abkhaz bluff -- forcing them to negotiate in earnest and confront the issue that holds the key to their future status: Abkhaz responsibilities to their prewar Georgian population. Bullies of the Caucasus
The songs are washed in earnest clean rhythm guitar and nice, glimmering production.
‘The ‘circumcision from Africa’ feature that we were defined by became a byword for all you'd satirise in a woman's magazine as earnest and worthy,’ she says.
These ten songs certainly aren't stylistically groundbreaking, or even trendsetting, but they are sophisticated, whimsical and, most of all, earnest.
She undid his shirt and placed her hand on his bare chest, her expression earnest. One Night in Scotland
And with these all as a background, one should earnestly strive to keep the unity of the Spirit.
An ideal young boy's yarn about the earnest young English couple shipwrecked off the coast of Darkest Africa.
To love someone in secret is like a seed in bottle waiting for growing up, though not sure whether the future will be more beautiful, still waiting it earnestly and eagerly.
Prohibition—the legislated imposition of teetotalism on the unwilling—was an idea that had been lurking beneath the earnest pieties of the temperance movement and was transformed in the late 1840s into a rallying cry. LAST CALL
David, in straits, had humbly and earnestly begged mercy of God, and God had heard him, that is, had graciously accepted his prayer, taken cognizance of his case, and granted him an answer of peace. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
I earnestly beg you to reconsider your decision.
There is the brutal confrontation with the earnest science student. Times, Sunday Times
Will the elders and policy makers take the earnest and bold message sent across by children seriously?
The sorrow he felt before was only an earnest of this damnation, a taste and prelibation of future wrath. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
Instead of heading back to Yenan to regroup, conservatives will have to spend some years or even decades wandering across a bleak political landscape of losing campaigns and rebranding efforts and earnest policy retreats, much as liberals did after 1968, before they can hope to re-establish dominance. The Fall Of Conservatism? - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com
We were fond of each other as children, when he first began his lessons at _cheder_," replied the girl, earnestly; "but it was only recently that he declared his love. Rabbi and Priest A Story
An actual initiation was, of course, out of the question; on the other hand a _catabasis_, a descent into Hades, was part of the epic inheritance he derived from Homer, and this, like the funeral games in the fifth book, he might use with an earnestness of purpose wanting in Homer, to work in with the great theme of his poem, not merely as an artistic effort. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
He attended his master at holytide, partly in the character of a domestic, or guardian, should there be cause for his interference; but it was not difficult to discern, by the earnest attention which he paid to Catharine The Fair Maid of Perth
The latter smirked, then renewed the fight in earnest.
The choice of wine showed an acute awareness of the country's two most pressing problems and an earnest desire to fix them. Times, Sunday Times
It was a touching tribute never since accorded to any other author, and an earnest of the esteem in which he was held.
His broad, brown-red face was only lightly lined, its earnest, amiable expression reflecting an inner comfort.
At Trinity College, Cambridge, he associated with the evangelical group led by Isaac Milner, being studious and earnest, modest and timid.
It has been asserted that the darnel is a degenerated kind of wheat; and attempts have been made to give additional significance to our Lord's instructive parable by injecting this thought; there is no scientific warrant for the strained conception, however, and earnest students will not be misled thereby. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
I lost count of the number of times this band was earnestly recommended to me, in reverential tones.
You may laugh but I'm in deadly earnest.
Then the aging pugilist, too, turned earnest, and emoted about how all political consultants respect one another deep down, because unlike the candidates they elect, they live "in the trenches. Ed Rollins, Republican strategist, joins political consultant hall of fame
You will hear terrible sounds emitted from earnest mouths. Times, Sunday Times
Alas, at nearly 70 minutes, By the Way is overlong and simply too restrained, and too wrong-headedly earnest, to leave more than a marginal impression.
Each receipt is an act of maternal and housewifely earnestness. The English Civil War: A People's History
She would, with malice aforethought, stop a plow to send Sarah to a quilting, and then, the Captain's foot would come down in earnest, and he'd "wonder whether there was a woman in the world that wouldn't lose a crop to give her daughter a sugar-tit! Master William Mitten: or, A Youth of Brilliant Talents, Who Was Ruined by Bad Luck
But whether she told of the grumbler who could find nothing to complain of in heaven except that "his halo didn't fit," or said in her quick way, when the plainness of a lady's dress was commended, "Why, I didn't suppose that anybody could go _to heaven_ now-a-days without an overskirt," or wrote her sparkling impromptu rhymes for our children's games, her mirth was all in harmony with her earnest life. The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
He will say earnestly, poor benighted souls. Times, Sunday Times
Let us remember, in our judgment of what may appear to us even grave errors of opinion in the book, that its author has fought for every step of ground that has been gained of late years by spiritual religion in Germany; and, while we lament the "dimness" which this great man confesses with such Christian-like humility, let us acknowledge the grandeur of his idea of the kingdom of God, and the earnestness of his devotion to it. The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement.
Theological wrangles belong essentially to a pioneer people: an earnest, stubbornly honest people, whose lives are given over to a battle with the elements and the brute forces of Nature, always argufy. Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers
It is more than ten years since ministers turned their attention in earnest to the country's 388 further education colleges. Times, Sunday Times
I never did, but I was a late bloomer, and had not yet begun to date in earnest by the time I was sixteen. DOWNTOWN
Efforts to lift the mood of despair on the factory floors began in earnest yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has issued what she calls an "earnest appeal" for the government and ethnic groups to begin immediate peace talks. Burma Democracy Leader Urges Talks to End Ethnic Conflicts
But the motivation behind it was an earnest bitterness at the hollowness of success.
A series of photograph of two toddlers earnestly stacking a pile of blocks only to knock them back down will be accompanied by this dialogue.
Gore came across as an earnest, deliberately spoken politician, often gesturing with his hands.
Why is Mrs. Bardell so earnestly entreated not to agitate herself about this warming – pan, unless (as is no doubt the case) it is a mere cover for hidden fire — a mere substitute for some endearing word or promise, agreeably to a preconcerted system of correspondence, artfully contrived by Pickwick with a view to his contemplated desertion, and which I am not in a condition to explain? The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
This version did receive approval and the weekly cycle of episode recording commenced in earnest.
Begging to be excused for a moment, he passed away into the rearmost quarters of the bank; whence, after an appreciable interval, he returned again in earnest talk with a superior, an oldish and a baldish, but a very gentlemanly man. The Wrong Box
Although she missed Ethan terribly, it was easy to let him slip from her mind when she was surrounded by many handsome, earnest sailors.
As can be imagined, they were very easily degenerated into hot-tempered battles fought in deadly earnest.
But does your foolish old hen suppose that this entire cavalcade, which is bound on an important adventure, is going to stand still while she lays her egg?" enquired the Tin Woodman, earnestly. Ozma of Oz
The novel's Italians are listless voluptuaries, its Germans are dedicated and earnest, its nuns are whores or maniacs and its censors are libidinously thrilled by the material they censor.
'Begad, we'd make him wear the grane in raal earnest, and, a foine scraw it would be,' said a third. Muslin
both sides were deeply in earnest, even passionate
It opens in 1860—when Garibaldi and his patriotic troops land in Sicily, and the Risorgimento that will ultimately produce a unified Italy begins in earnest. A Lyric, Elegiac Lament for a Lost World
As is often the case with activist art, the Latin American selection, while rife with political and moral earnestness, is crudely hortatory and almost totally devoid of formal interest.
The indecision brings its own delays, and days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; what you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness as genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
On the other hand, (we speak it advisedly,) no class of men in Europe strive more earnestly and self-denyingly to improve the condition of those dependent on them, to build good houses for their tenants, open schools for the children, and drain and fertilize the land. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866
Resolved, That the efforts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in endeavoring to exterminate the imported pest known as the gy]) sy moth meet with our hearty ap - proval, and we, members of the farmers 'national congress, assembled at St. Paul, earnestly appeal to the congress of the United St.tes to aid our sister state in extermi - nating what is liable to be a national pest if neglected. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
That type would be: self-important, dweebish, earnest. Times, Sunday Times
Aaron Johnson sells Dave's earnestness (and the movie itself) with a dweebish grace reminiscent of John Francis Daley's Sam Weir in the television show Freaks and Geeks. MOVIE REVIEW: Kick-Ass (2010)
Except, perhaps, for the inclusion of the dance's peat-covered stage, strikingly filmed here as it's being put in place, there seems little about this Sturm und Drang battle of the sexes for barefoot women in thin slips and bare-chested, barefoot men in black slacks that trendy French modernist Maurice Béjart or any number of earnest modern-dance practitioners might not have done. A Posthumous Spotlight on a Force of Nature
To love someone in secret is like a seed in bottle waiting for growing up, though not sure whether the future will be more beautiful, still waiting it earnestly and eagerly.
My father was very opposed to papism, " she continued earnestly, -which is why, in his will, he insisted I must marry a communicant of the Church of England, or else. Sharpe's Havoc
Somewhere in Time is so sweet that it becomes saccharine, so serious that it becomes self-parody, so earnest that it becomes artificial.
Campaigning will begin in earnest tomorrow.
Laurie, in her ecstatic state, executed a pirouette, and began to sing in earnest.
The dialogue is clunkily over-earnest, the characters and socio-political background sketchy. Times, Sunday Times
A hale and hearty friend was earnestly counting the number of weekends she had left to live - given the average length of years a woman might live.
In life's earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward and never say fail.
Hereupon Marble made what he called a rumpus in good earnest. Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale
I hope and pray that the chastenings of our blessed Lord, in depriving us of our worldly possessions, may be sanctified to us, and lead us, more earnestly and undoubtingly, to seek for possessions in that Kingdom where all is joy, and peace, and love. A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren
This determination, however, perfectly consistent with his former advice, he calls indelicate, and earnestly persuades his daughters to conceal it, though it may govern their conduct: as if it were indelicate to have the common appetites of human nature. 50 Chap. II
Jessica St. Clair is Jane's younger sister, Emily, the stand-in for happily married, terribly earnest supermoms. Talented cast, humorless task in 'Motherhood'
What his earnest colleagues in the Society made of it I could not tell.
For those who know her primarily as the earnest TV-drama doctor, her uninhibited sexiness when in the throes of ghostly passion comes as quite a surprise.
We will begin the process in earnest once we have issued our preliminary results in March. Times, Sunday Times
There is the brutal confrontation with the earnest science student. Times, Sunday Times
It is my earnest wish that you use this money to continue you study of music.
Dr. Latham has ever earnestly and successfully insisted on the _disciplinal_ character of grammatical studies in general, combined with the fact, that the grammatical study of one's own language is exclusively so; and having established this theory, he has, by the production of various elementary works, exhibiting a happy combination of great philological acquirements with the ability to apply them in a logical and systematic manner, enabled those who shared his views to put that theory into practice. Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
To say or affirm earnestly and with great conviction.
It was not with the hope of dying young that she wished to go and face death daily, but in the earnest desire to escape from what she called her temptation, and to regain that peace of mind which had been hers for a long time and now was gone. The White Sister
Meanwhile, out-of-doors, you could hear the stamping and roaring of the crowd, goaded into a frenzy by repeated hymns, enfevered by its earnest desire for the Divine interposition, and growing more and more enervated by the delay. The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2
Basic errors are repeated time and again, despite fine words and earnest assurances to this committee.
In person he is given as much to hoots of goofy laughter as he is to earnest reflection. Times, Sunday Times
In what I earnestly hope will be a source of lessons learned, a large meteor entered Earth's atmosphere near Jakarta this weekend during a terror alert.
Her mouth drooped sadly, the earnest expression coming into her eyes again.
Vic, your mendacity is so very earnest, it is amusing. Discourse.net: Doctors Support the Public Option
Even more earnest are the downloadable Islamic spiritual guides, quotes from the Koran, and schedules for dawn-to-dusk fasting.
Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest. Sam Levenson
Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest.
Herevpon king Richard, not minding to be so mocked at their hands, approched one daie to the wals and gates with his armie in good araie of battell to giue the assault, [Sidenote: K. Richard assalteth and entreth the citie by force.] which was doone so earnestlie, and so well mainteined, that finallie the citie was entred by force, and manie of the citizens slaine, but the slaughter had béene much greater, if king Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First
In 1981, a noxious earnest effort takes locate in the disreputable H-block of Belfast's Maze Prison. politico inmates, led by Bobby Sands (Fassbender), respond to take until the nation polity acknowledges the FTO as a lawful semipolitical organization. Planet Malaysia
It was also to be a vehicle for Dickens as an essayist, both as a fanciful observer and as an earnestly satiric social critic.
Almost without fail will he become an earnest advocate of underdrainage. Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement
It is only through such earnest conversation that we can hope to approach clarity.
He halves nothing whatever with our more earnest-minded juniors who -- perennially discovering that all religions thus far put to the test of nominal practice have, whatever their paradisial _entrée_, resulted in a deplorable earthly hash -- perennially run yelping into the shrill agnosticism which believes only that one's neighbors should not be permitted to believe in anything. The Queen Pedauque
I laughed out loud when I read a piece on the Daily Telegraph's website which earnestly explained the meaning of "mither" for the sake of their southern readers who had never before enountered the word. piece was entitled "Steven Gerrard trial: what does 'mither' mean? Manchester Evening News Blogs
The pictures along our hallway captured my father's rigid poises, earnest and noble. Unspoken Bonds
An award reflects, in right earnest, recognises the services rendered by an individual for a specific purpose in a chosen field.
I think you and Mero ought to be handfasted, Shana," Valyn said earnestly, leaning forward a little. The Elvenbane
Holy Fire is not a sacral rite, but a sectarian battle standard and, as she earnestly tries to prove, a fraud.
When I say that the U.S. financial sector is currently self-destructing, I say this with earnestness.
Allotted 45 minutes for the predebate "walk-through" in Miami, Kerry took 43, asking to see a "freeze frame" of him standing at the podium, engaging in earnest debate over neckties. TALKING THE TALK
Eden is more lush ( "lusher" is a word, but doesn't it sound weird?), more confident, and Merchant the writer finds a sweet spot between the overly earnest lyrics of her early days and the occasionally generic material from her later solo years. A Special Way of Being Afraid
It was well for the success of Mac's first crusade that his hearers were gentlemen and sober, so his outburst was not received with jeers or laughter but listened to in silence, while the expression of the faces changed from one of surprise to regret and respect, for earnestness is always effective and championship of this sort seldom fails to touch hearts as yet unspoiled. Rose in Bloom
On leave, many of your men gravitate towards the Piccadilly neighbourhood, where, despite the black-out, rationing and high prices, a certain spirituous gaiety is still achieved, but this is more likely to lower the bank account than to raise the view of the earnestness of our war-effort. Dunkirk to Dieppe and Beyond
Why I mention all this is because there's an exhibition opening tomorrow evening at the gallery which I earnestly recommend because it concentrates on new paintings of South African cityscapes and landscapes.
On life's earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward and never say fail.
It is impossible to hate, like the earnest child in a schoolroom who desperately wants to understand long division, but just can't master the logic.
And now, in the hope that there may be one or two men here who are really and not counterfeitly in earnest to clothe themselves with humility before God and man, let them take these two looms to themselves out of which whole webs of such garments will be delivered to them every day -- their past life, and their present heart. Bunyan Characters (2nd Series)

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