Wikipedia is so dangerous. You go online to look up the definition of eclampsia, and three hours later you find yourself reading this earnest explanation of tentacle porn in [Japanese] anime.
Just because he was pretty didn't mean he couldn't be improved by a smack upside the head with a piece of earnest hickory
No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.
We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end
Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food
The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.
There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but people and their ways; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws.
In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain (as long as it was done out of love, not personal glory)
. . . there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.
It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished.
There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.
The hope of all earnest souls must be realized.
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.
Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.
Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.
I know it's going to sound like a cliché, but the key of successful playing a role is to sort of keep it real and earnest and react the way that one would react in those situations. Where the disconnect between the movie and the audience would happen is if you go too big or too crazy with that stuff.