Earnest
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338 examples of Earnest in a sentence
While Denmark is now reopening schools for the youngest children, Singapore is returning to lockdown mode, and Sweden is only beginning to impose one in
earnest.
After an informal summit in Sibiu, Romania, earlier this month, European leaders will return to this issue in
earnest
later in June.
The situation calls for an
earnest
debate about the ECB’s mandate and existing European treaties.
Putin’s Ambivalent IlliberalismPARIS – Russian President Vladimir Putin recently told the Financial Times that “the liberal idea has become obsolete,” drawing a wave of
earnest
rebuttals.
Now that China is pursuing this strategy in earnest, we should expect it to follow through with the additional measures announced last November.
After a brutal Japanese occupation, the war erupted in earnest, and in 1949 the Communists won.
The Norwegian finance ministry recently announced that it will divest $4 billion more from coal assets, which it began dumping in
earnest
in 2015, and that it will invest up to 2% of its global portfolio, or over $20 billion, in solar, wind, and other renewable projects.
When EU member states began discussing an eastward expansion in
earnest
– first at a 1997 summit in Amsterdam, and then at a follow-up meeting in Nice in 2000 – they found it extremely difficult to get their heads around the idea.
One of the paradoxes of contemporary Spanish politics is that Ciudadanos cannot pursue its policy agenda in
earnest
unless it remains weak.
We need to fight a holding action on the economic front by providing relief to workers and businesses, until the war on the virus is mostly won and recovery can begin in
earnest.
When the Princess heard why he had come, she grew angry half in fun and half in earnest, and told him to go home and dress and not to delay Kitty, whose hair had to be done by the hairdresser, due to arrive immediately.
The other quickly stood up, for he had understood by the hiss of the voice that his mate was in
earnest.
Conseil was in dead earnest, but I didn't subscribe to his views.
At that moment, he would have fought for the Inquisition, and in
earnest.
'If this is not treachery, how foolishly she is behaving for me! ...If it is a mystification, begad, gentlemen, it rests with me to turn the jest to earnest, and so I shall.
We thought this very funny: we said his
earnest
manner was half the humour.
I forget the other ingredients, but I know nothing was wasted; and I remember that, towards the end, Montmorency, who had evinced great interest in the proceedings throughout, strolled away with an
earnest
and thoughtful air, reappearing, a few minutes afterwards, with a dead water- rat in his mouth, which he evidently wished to present as his contribution to the dinner; whether in a sarcastic spirit, or with a genuine desire to assist, I cannot say.
WE woke late the next morning, and, at Harris's
earnest
desire, partook of a plain breakfast, with "non dainties."
These
earnest
gentlemen - all three of them had full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy.
They observed the dragoon, on gaining the lawn, in
earnest
and apparently pleased conversation with his two subalterns.
"There, Mister Light-Horseman," said Caesar eagerly, who believed the Americans were retiring in earnest; "why you rebels don't fight - see - see how King George's men make Major Dunwoodie run!
He now applied himself in
earnest
to his work, took off his spectacles, and threw aside his wig.
Her spirits rose in proportion; from despondency, she passed to something like gayety; her beautiful eyes sparkled with renovated brilliancy; and her face was lighted with smiles so fascinating, that Frances, who, in compliance with her
earnest
entreaties, had accompanied her to the sick chamber, sat gazing on a countenance that possessed so wonderful variability, impelled by a charm that was beyond her control.
The youth had thrown an
earnest
look at Frances, as soon as his sister raised herself from his arms, and perhaps it was the first glance at the lovely lineaments of our heroine, when the gazer turned his eyes from the view in disappointment.
At the bottom, Sitgreaves had much good sense, and thus called on, he took up the cudgels of argument in downright
earnest.
Some were endeavoring to sleep on the benches which lined the walls, some were walking the apartments, and others were seated in
earnest
discussion on subjects connected with the business of their lives.
He had made
earnest
inquiries of Sitgreaves after the condition of Singleton, during which a profound and respectful silence was maintained in the room; but as soon as he had ended, and resumed his seat, the usual ease and freedom prevailed.
"'Tis nothing," replied the peddler, recovering his natural manner, and lowering his face to avoid the
earnest
looks of his companion.
Thus encouraged, and somewhat impelled by the opinion that he both sang and wrote with taste, the surgeon set about complying with the request in sober
earnest.
Or does he seem a man who is
earnest
in his trade?"
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