earnestness造句

I think my earnestness amused him.

Whenever my homework is not well written, my mother tells me the reasons for her earnestness.

He spoke with a pleading earnestness, taking Alan by the breast of the coat.

The massa's eyes drank in the wet-eyed earnestness of his beloved niece.

We would admire both his earnestness and his self-aware irony.

She was deeply moved by the teacher's earnestness and thought-provoking advice.

She took her mother's hand in both her own, and gazed into her eyes with an earnestness that was seldom seen in her wild and capricious character.

A really good creative person is more interested in earnestness than in glibness and takes more satisfaction out of converting people than in 'wowing 'them.

Almost from childhood onwards he had a deep earnestness, an attitude ethical rather than religious, but, until he was about thirty, no very definite sense of direction.

It requires a fertile and high-functioning brain to take something as simple as the truth and twist it, palming off the deception on someone else with the earnestness of a choirboy.

Her face was remarkable less for its perfect beauty of feature than for a singular and dreamy earnestness of expression, which made the ideal start when they looked at her.