She looked up at him, gaze full of earnest concern that melted his rising temper.

The beauty is that there's insufficient time to fully share our extremely earnest concerns about this awful problem and do something about it.

The rebel priest's brows were knit in earnest moral concern.

He forced the smile from his face and looked up at Gauvreau with earnest concern.

Hard though she stared, Nanny was unable to spot anything other than earnest concern.

To Maia, the effect seemed to mock the brief, earnest concerns of the living.

Her voice betrayed no jealousy, only an earnest concern.

As for attitude, this time Ms. Jackson has chosen a popular late-1980's gambit: earnest social concern.

With tender smiles and earnest concern, they distributed the goods among dozens of homeless people.

The association's lobbying arguments are framed around earnest constitutional concerns.