earnest

It almost makes you wonder if Lizard Squad did this just to annoy Anonymous and the other earnest champions of privacy.

He becomes especially earnest when the conversation turns to his role as The Baker in Into the Woods.

Lyricist E. Y. “Yip” Harburg was as provocative as Hammerstein, though with a much less earnest, more whimsical sensibility.

The US first considered the idea in the 1820s, but interest was revived in earnest after the California Gold Rush began in 1849.

Few politicians garner the celebrity that Senator Booker does, and fewer still seem so earnest and human while doing it.

The hum of earnest or glad voices here contrasted strongly with silence and meditation there.

This is a slow process, but earnest hearts and united minds will render it a sure one.

The earnest youth grinding at the academic mill has dreamed it in the pauses of his studious labor.

We made the freight camp, however, just as the storm cut loose in deadly earnest.

A remarkable man he was indeed; simple and earnest in manner, with a fine eye, a full dark beard and sunburnt face.