earnest
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There are also a couple of earnest and successful Dylan homages: “Wild Eyes” and “I Can’t Fight It.”
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026
A person who’s earnest about learning a language is forever trying to decipher something new, failing far more often than succeeding in the early going — yet always working to master the task.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
A lanky 44-year-old who painted himself as an earnest advocate for taxpayer efficiency, Sand has tried to conjure up a public perception as half Atticus Finch, half youth pastor.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
Ms. Cho’s Ye-ji is sweetly ingratiating, earnest in her desire to capture the lives of working people, yet she has a self-congratulatory air and turns stiff when politely called to account for her own obliviousness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
This was her experiment: careful, earnest, painfully homemade.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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