0 serious and determined, especially too serious and unable to find your own actions funny: --
Ear-piercingly earnest and equally full of pitch-perfect bombast.
Here he began his project of electroencephalog raphic investigation in earnest.
Given the threatened status of indigenous languages, sociolinguistic researchers having a social commitment should make earnest and continuous endeavors to honor and preserve linguistic diversity.
Partition in real earnest and full operation must now be faced.
At the same time, the type theory community's interest in and need for good programming technology is developing in earnest.
His linguistic creed is that while language, like life, is perdurably real and earnest, it should also be fun to watch.
Despite its initial popularity this closeness in design, once the war began in earnest, became problematic.
Both characters were earnest, ethical, and slid from irony to cynicism when dealing with the absurdities of existence.
