Earnest
in sentence
338 examples of Earnest in a sentence
A film could be
earnest
and yet not very good, and perhaps with some unintentional entertainment value (like laughs).
In the name of sex education and the eradication of the evils of socially transmitted disease, the film begins with the
earnest
entreaty that "Ignorance Must Be Abolished".
"Virus" is a
earnest
attempt to chronicle an apocalypse, perhaps for cautionary as well as artistic and financial intentions.
If you're a male who will be watching this for masturbatory purposes (I don't know who else would be watching it, or why else) I would suggest turning the volume all the way down and playing your own "stroke music" on your CD player or whatever you have, unless you're heavily into "Night on Bald Mountain" (and other old library tunes) and lots of self-satirizingly
earnest
narration a la Walter Winchell on "The Untouchables," e.g.
The West needs to get out before the bloodletting starts again in
earnest.
Some, like Belarus and Uzbekistan, have not even started reforms in
earnest.
When it became clear that the French effort was in earnest, and a date was announced for preparatory talks on May 30, the clear timelines encouraged Palestinian officials to sign up to the process.
He will need an
earnest
multilateral effort, clear timelines, a commitment to justice on all sides – and perhaps a miracle.
At a golden wedding anniversary one may wish that, now, everything should really start in
earnest.
Some people even fear that the present war of words over Cyprus could lead to a shooting war in
earnest
between Greece and Turkey.
Unless the ruling elite embrace an honest and
earnest
effort at national and class reconciliation and soon, Thailand could well descend into a civil war along class lines that would make the turmoil of the past two months in Bangkok seem like a brawl in a bar.
Former German Chancellor Willy Brandt began pursuing Ostpolitik in
earnest
in the 1970s, and Helmut Kohl maintained the policy after he came to power in 1982.
EU financial integration began in
earnest
in the 1980’s, and the European Commission and European Council made great strides in financial-sector reform.
When the crisis started in
earnest
in August 2007, the ECB reacted quickly and intervened as long as the inter-bank market needed support.
Gore’s deeply
earnest
film plots the relentless, and potentially disastrous, warming of the earth during the industrial era.
But important progress can be made by the time the UK’s referendum is held – if, that is, EU leaders begin pursuing this goal in
earnest
now.
I was expecting something like a hospital – saintly ladies bustling around in white uniforms,
earnest
doctors with stethoscopes, and, of course, hospital beds.
Even before the summit began, Europeans, Canadians, Mexicans, South Koreans, and Japanese had been consulting in
earnest
about the need for a new alliance to save the multilateral system.
After World War II, Turkey pursued this project in earnest, by joining NATO, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (the predecessor of the World Trade Organization).
So the search for scapegoats proceeds, not in
earnest
and with energy, but as a reflex, the death throes of the old ways of doing things.
Countries that tackled reforms in
earnest
should grow 5% or more for the next few years at least.
It is my
earnest
desire that the people in our neighborly countries and their leaders should feel free to visit each other whenever they wish to do so.
Third, any further sanctions should be accompanied by an
earnest
offer of dialogue and engagement.
Led by a group of technocrats surrounding the young King Mohammed VI, a reform process – including political liberalization – has begun in earnest, even if the results still seem modest.
When talks resumed in
earnest
in May, both presidents were directly involved, their participation having been facilitated by UN Special Adviser on Cyprus Espen Barth Eide.
Whether or not to “disperse” oil has been a key strategic question since combating spills began in
earnest
in the 1960’s.
Of course, Putin will begin his new term with
earnest
words about renewal, development, democratization, and the scourge of corruption.
That is certainly how things looked, with high levels of structural unemployment and a below-trend capital stock, at the end of the 1930’s, before mobilization and the European and Pacific wars began in
earnest.
Another is that he came to resent the West, owing to the humiliation of the stalled EU accession process and his own authoritarian ambitions, which he finally pursued in
earnest
after the failed military coup in the summer of 2016.
This treatment goes far beyond documentaries like Michael Moore’s polemical Fahrenheit 9/11 or The Corporation , an
earnest
if somewhat paranoid portrayal of multinational companies’ role in globalization.
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