earnestness

1 The hundred nights they’d sat up debating the pros and cons of self destruction with the earnestness of philosophers chained to a madhouse wall.

2 He came back to sit at the table, searching my face with an eight-year-old’s earnestness.

3 “Whether this stuff is successful, people watch or don’t watch, I want to believe it,” he said with unapologetic earnestness.

4 But her earnestness was almost sadly out of place in music that wouldn’t be challenging for a young student.

5 I was very proud of it,” she adds with her special brand of chirpy earnestness.

6 The play can never settle on a tone, and many scenes land askew, teetering uneasily between earnestness and flamboyance — it often feels as if dramatic ones are played for laughs, and vice versa.

7 The earnestness derives from a strong sense of threat.

8 But it warms a jaded heart to see her earnestness validated.

9 At the time, I thought a lot about whether Cobain was actually “cool” and disaffected, or whether his coolness merely masked a deeper earnestness.

10 “I had only practiced on a floor,” Kidman said with a gentle earnestness.

11 His heated, endearing earnestness had a better showcase in Gregory Spears’s new “Love Story.”

12 Ms. Bowers said, “It gives him an authenticity, just the earnestness of his endeavor.”

13 ‘Do not speak of such things!’ said Strider quickly, and with surprising earnestness.

14 And her works go about answering them studiously but sensuously — with earnestness, wit, whimsy, self-awareness and music that ranges freely among, for a start, Baroque madrigals, power ballads and barbed modernism.

15 It’s a kind of dialogue seldom heard in American theater, but the young cast here pulls it off without excessive earnestness, on the one hand, or preciousness, on the other.

16 “There was a real sense of earnestness, which made me go home and think, ‘Let me really rethink my answer and make sure I am giving an answer that is truthful and also respectful.’”

17 He spoke with an earnestness that carried conviction to his students.

他的诚恳态度,使学生都很相信他.

18 Despite its reputation for fur and foie gras, Paris had begun to embrace the ecological movement with the earnestness of leading eco-minded cities like Copenhagen and Vancouver.

19 If I can put that question in earnestness, then the capacity is there.

如果我能够真诚地提这个问题，那么那个能力就在那里。

20 As Lady Gaga, dogged throughout her career by questions of exploitation of gay audiences despite apparent earnestness, could tell her, there’s little upside for seriously speaking out.

1 诚挚

Earnest veridical veridically cordiality heartfelt earnestly

2 勤恳

earnest earnestly

3 热切

willing intense intent eager fond earnest ardent impassioned eagerly passionately earnestly ardently eagerness keenness

4 热心

great hard forward warm intent keen eager enthusiastic glowing strenuous bubbly ardent studious warm-hearted white-hot zestful cando fire enthusiasm warmth zest zeal eagerness fervor ardor keenness elan forwardness warmness intentness ardency avidness enthuse be keen on be keen about keep on toes keen on

5 认真

serious steady Earnest staid serious-minded sobersided hard seriously religiously gravity seriousness with gloves off without gloves take things seriously with a will mean it business like earnestly