Her twin added the earnest plea in his blue eyes.

But the core of Mr. Clinton's message was an earnest plea to the Russians not to lose faith.

Dave's earnest plea for reassurance worried Sean.

Ignoring his earnest plea, she twisted free of his hands.

He wished to express an earnest plea for Marcos to step down, for a peaceful regime change and a return to democratic institutions.

But this is the obstacle to Nadal's earnest plea for credibility: the testing itself.

"Nerys," he called after her a second time, the solitary word an earnest plea for her to stop.

Therapeutic action: an earnest plea for irony (2003)

"General, " added Pinkus, in the title a soft but earnest plea.