The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.
Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
See you on the other side of the screen, if you make it, earnest cyberspace cadet.
Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.
I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.
I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.
In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached.
To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.
Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.
There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.
In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance.
No married man is ever attractive except to his wife.
Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom.
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept.
It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished.
That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.
A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
