Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It would be terribly boring to be earnest.
Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy.
I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.
I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that being cynical is somehow conflated with being sophisticated. I think that's problematic, to say the least.
I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's much more fun, especially in a comedy. You don't want to be some earnest guy who's just trying to do the right thing but can't. I want to be doing the wrong thing intentionally.
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.
'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.
I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.