Examples of use of EARNESTNESS
1. With the influx of players has come a creeping earnestness.
2. She spoke with the same earnestness Friday, repeatedly telling Ukrainians that she wanted their advice.
3. Johnson declared "war on poverty," to underscore his earnestness about creating an egalitarian society.
4. Its flights of fancy!) effectively tainted any serious discussion of sexism with myopic earnestness.
5. I think of a sad postwar bohemia, earnestness and lost values.