She took her mother's hand in both her own, and gazed into her eyes with an earnestness that was seldom seen in her wild and capricious character.
Her face was remarkable less for its perfect beauty of feature than for a singular and dreamy earnestness of expression, which made the ideal start when they looked at her.
The massa's eyes drank in the wet-eyed earnestness of his beloved niece.
Almost from childhood onwards he had a deep earnestness, an attitude ethical rather than religious, but, until he was about thirty, no very definite sense of direction.
He spoke with a pleading earnestness, taking Alan by the breast of the coat.
It requires a fertile and high-functioning brain to take something as simple as the truth and twist it, palming off the deception on someone else with the earnestness of a choirboy.
She was deeply moved by the teacher's earnestness and thought-provoking advice.
We would admire both his earnestness and his self-aware irony.
A really good creative person is more interested in earnestness than in glibness and takes more satisfaction out of converting people than in 'wowing 'them.
Whenever my homework is not well written, my mother tells me the reasons for her earnestness.
I think my earnestness amused him.
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