"We should tackle them in a bold, prudent and earnest way."

Then Dorcas went on, in her simple and earnest way, to furnish illustrations.

It is somewhat exploitive in its earnest way, and we are left after 90 minutes with little understanding of what drove Catherine to her death.

The third thing is a sudden memory of the earnest way the press bus driver promised just this experience.

These lively, accomplished works prove that serious issues don't have to be treated in a deadly, earnest way.

"I have a child," he said, in his serious, earnest way.

I am trying in a flawed but earnest way to represent the dining public.

Tom laughed at Polly's earnest way of talking when she was interested in anything.

Leah in her earnest way helped him scout around for a project, but alas he found nothing worth pounding at, anywhere.

Rather, it is about a state of mind and, in a small but earnest way, the state of contemporary photography.