All 7 Uses of
earnest
in
Catch-22
- You see,' he confided earnestly, 'what I hope to do is give the men in this squadron the best meals in the whole world.†
Chpt 7 *
- He was a very serious, very earnest and very conscientious dope.†
Chpt 8
- 'They're really a couple of good kids,' Aarfy confided earnestly to Yossarian, whose recurring dream it was to have the nude milk-white female bodies of both these beautiful rich black-haired good kids lying stretched out in bed erotically with him at the same time.†
Chpt 13
- 'Me no Hungry Joe,' he explained earnestly.†
Chpt 16
- A number of men who were not moaning were now giggling openly, and there was no telling how far the unorganized insurrection of moaning might have gone if General Dreedle himself had not come forward to quell it, stepping out determinedly in the center of the platform directly in front of Major Danby, who, with his earnest, persevering head down, was still concentrating on his wrist watch and saying, '…twenty-five seconds… twenty… fifteen…'†
Chpt 21
- 'Now, please let me explain something to you,' he cajoled in a mature, reasoning, earnest voice.†
Chpt 38
- Colonel Korn leaned forward earnestly, no longer smiling.†
Chpt 40
Definition:
-
(earnest) characterized by sincere belief
or:
intensely or excessively serious or determined