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    earnestness


    1. She’d been touched by the earnestness of his feelings for the dead woman and done her best to tidy up the corpse, dressing it in the clothing Mickey had selected from Sheila’s limited wardrobe


    2. ’ He looked up at her with a desperate earnestness


    3. ‘Is he with us currently?’ Heigener asked in a measured tone that was meant to sound like earnestness


    4. ‘What are you hoping this experiment will achieve?’ she asked in all earnestness


    5. He’d said his morning prayers for that day with the usual earnestness and enthusiasm he adopted when talking to his God about the day’s events and ask him for wisdom in everything he dealt with


    6. “Don’t be a booby, Sheriff,” deadpanned the child with surprising earnestness


    7. was a steady earnestness in the gray eyes that made him think of his


    8. M: These will come with earnestness


    9. nor a protracted process; earnestness is the only condition of


    10. You may choose any way that suits you; your earnestness will

    11. Action is a proof of earnestness


    12. It is the earnestness that liberates and not the theory


    13. pointedness of the mind, you come back to earnestness, since-


    14. shows lack of earnestness, without which nothing can be done


    15. With integrity and earnestness and


    16. Your very earnestness testifies to it


    17. The main thing is earnestness


    18. in your story suffered for lack of earnestness in people


    19. Again, earnestness is


    20. Q: What is the source of earnestness?

    21. as he is, do what he tells you, with earnestness and zeal and


    22. Earnestness is both necessary and sufficient


    23. thing yields to earnestness


    24. M: Compassion is the foundation of earnestness


    25. Earnestness is not a yearning for the fruits of one’s en-


    26. depends on the clarity of their vision and their earnestness in


    27. With earnestness these can be reached


    28. applies it to himself with some earnestness and effort, obtains


    29. After all, it is earnestness that is


    30. must be filled to the brim with earnestness, which is but love in

    31. It is earnestness that will take you through, not clever-


    32. M: Earnestness, the sign of maturity


    33. M: Mere physical renunciation is only a token of earnestness,


    34. Right desire, which consists of earnestness to know the Ultimate Princi-


    35. 1 Let us therefore men and brethren carry on our warfare with all earnestness in his faultless ordinances


    36. Wherefore then my brethren let us struggle with all earnestness knowing that the contest is [in our case] close at hand and that many undertake long voyages to strive for a corruptible reward; yet all are not crowned but those only that have laboured hard and striven gloriously


    37. “The grim fact is that the terrorists have in absolute honesty, earnestness and with cogency used the Gitā, which some of them know by heart, in defense of their doctrine and policy


    38. True, the emphatic word may be spoken more loudly, or it may bespoken more softly, but the real quality desired is intensity, earnestness


    39. if so how is that result produced? The only reply that can be given is that this will depend upon the earnestness of the good wish and the amount of


    40. But all expectance of such a demonstration was effectually removed from the minds of his six disciple-apostles when he called them together just before the wedding supper and, in great earnestness, said: "Think not that I have come to this place to work some wonder for the gratification of the curious or for the conviction of those who doubt

    41. Seldom did the Master speak to his apostles with evident strong feeling, but this was one of those few occasions when he spoke with manifest earnestness, accompanied by marked emotion


    42. “I lost myself in work,” she said in all earnestness, and added after a pause, “Who can understand that better than you?”


    43. 2 On this Sunday afternoon, about three miles out of Jerusalem and a few minutes before five o'clock, as these two brothers trudged along the road to Emmaus, they talked in great earnestness about Jesus, his teachings, work, and more especially concerning the rumors that his tomb was empty, and that certain of the women had talked with him


    44. to heart like they had seen it for themselves and then passed it to others with similar fearful earnestness


    45. When it began, Rahul appeared to show some flashes of promise, with a look of earnestness and well-meaning intent


    46. These are they who profess their inability to understand anything like zeal or earnestness about religion


    47. The plain truth is, that "sincerity and earnestness" are becoming the idol of many English Christians in these latter days


    48. People seem to think it matters little what opinions a man holds in religion, so long as he is "earnest and sincere;" and you are thought uncharitable if you doubt his soundness in the faith! Against this idolatry of mere "earnestness" I enter my solemn protest


    49. greatest earnestness that possibly we can;


    50. ‘If not for her, I wouldn’t have had my savior in you,’ she said in all earnestness, ‘I led you into my heart, but in her tracts of love













































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    Synonyms for "earnestness"

    earnestness serious-mindedness seriousness sincerity zeal intensity fervour enthusiasm earnest solemnity gravity sobriety intentness resolution tenacity persistence

    "earnestness" definitions

    an earnest and sincere feeling


    the trait of being serious