Forward, in the shadow of the windlass, where they could converse unobserved, two white men sat in earnest talk.

We must have an earnest talk," said the Reverend Dr. Gantry.

This year, earnest talk of "fluid form" and "structural solutions" was ramped up by star sightings - Nicole Kidman!

When they reached the Brunhilda's deck I saw Olaf take the wheel and the two fall into earnest talk.

He expected a lot of earnest talk now; the ship echoed with chatter and hoteyed gossip.

Nelson can't seem to find the right tone; he veers from backwoods comedy to nervously unhinged violence to earnest talk of poetry and the meaning of life.

The poet Sir Thomas Wyatt wrote in 1541, "I am wont sometime to rap out on oath in an earnest talk."

Just ahead walked Lakla in earnest talk with Rador, and content enough was I for a time to watch her.

Montero and his brother made the subject of an earnest talk between the Dictator-President and the Nestor-inspirer of the party.

Their intimacy permits Diana to engage David in earnest talks about their finances while she sits on the toilet.