earnestness
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Earnestness has the edge over sense; science, if you want to call it that — it often amounts to magic here — just serves the drama, the philosophy and the themes.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2022
Earnestness is difficult to learn or feign; it is a quality that a performer — or a person, for that matter — simply has.
From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2022
Earnestness, as Yovanovitch showed, is not entirely dead in American public life.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2019
Earnestness is a great quality in normal conversation, but I often shy away from it in my own writing, worried it will overwhelm the poem.
From Slate • Jun. 15, 2018
Earnestness is ever deeply solemn: first, as I listened to that prayer, I wondered at his; then, when it continued and rose, I was touched by it, and at last awed.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing earnestness
The Devil's Arithmetic
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Lee Surrenders to Grant (1865)
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