be in earnest
Example Sentences
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Those imams who still counsel against jihadist terrorism, says Kepel, may be in earnest.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Washington, Reagan Administration officials stressed that the Soviet leader's reform efforts seem to be in earnest, and avoided dashing hopes for better U.S.-Soviet ties.
From Time Magazine Archive
I wish from my soul, and hope my Julia will soon join my wish, that the Baron may be in earnest in his attention to Miss Finch.
From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana
Polls closed,–in joke, we thought, as Judge Hoar proposed it; proved to be in earnest, and we elected a good school committee.
From Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals by Alcott, Louisa May
His words, his looks, his whole attitude, proclaimed him to be in earnest.
From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne
