All the books under review are earnest attempts to get people involved in protecting the environment.

Her son was being groomed for the most earnest attempt, but the boy's uncle decided to see what he could do first.

Even so, I can't help feeling that earnest attempts to connect the new with the old help neither side.

Indeed, the film is witness to their very earnest attempt to meet us with friendship.

Make the bomb look like an earnest attempt that fizzled.

The truth is that in my mind the story is nothing but a serious and even earnest attempt at a bit of historical fiction.

"I think Polly will make an earnest attempt really to find someone to live with them."

The collection seems like an earnest attempt to broaden the line's appeal.

They seemed to be constantly circling the world in an earnest attempt to spend the proceeds.

It is an earnest attempt to eliminate collusion or corruption.