In a brief, earnest televised speech, he said the day had taken "thousands of lives" and generated "a quiet, unyielding anger" in the nation.

He begins earnest speeches on health care or timber and then ends up talking about his sexual failures and who kissed whom first.

Mr. J. E. Dunham made a brief but earnest speech.

Then it was with gravely earnest speech which suitably affected his nephews.

Instead of the earnest speech she gave to him and Isaac, she repeats platitudes that will reassure his parents.

Thornburg found his son's earnest speech so naive that he could not help but burst out into laughter.

33 I gave earnest speeches like that when I was twelve years old.

They parry earnest speech with banter and levity; they laugh you down, or they change the subject.

She was flushed and a little breathless as the result of her long earnest speech.