earnestness

How To Use earnestness In A Sentence

• 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
• “Night and day praying exceedingly,” that is, praying out of measure, with intense earnestness, superabundantly, beyond measure, exceeding abundantly. The Weapon of Prayer
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Our whims and caprices are discanted on with apparent earnestness of truth, and seeming sincerity of conviction. The Drama
• 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"
• All these folks bring a serious earnestness to their roles, which nicely matches the show's overall tone.
• So Martin contaminated Professor Caldwell with his own earnestness, challenging him to speak his mind. Chapter 27
• 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