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...I’m also hopelessly earnest.” I suggest it’s a conversation he must have had plenty of times while teaching creative writing at Goldsmiths....
...Perhaps it is that painful intensity that electrifies his prose, which comes across as crystalline, athletic, earnest yet frequently funny....
...A huge bear of a man with a grizzled beard, Miller had not followed the usual gold-plated road from Ivy League law school to Wall Street....
...For years, corporate Silicon Valley has embraced Burning Man proper, preaching the earnest pursuit of “creativity” and collaboration....
...The challenge for those at COP26 is to begin that work in earnest. Simon Mundy is the FT’s Moral Money Editor....
...Every street has a couple of hipster barbers advertising big quiffs, beards and undercuts....
...Top left stands Adam, precisely rendered: each hair on his brow, beard, even pubic hair, can be counted. God enthroned soars above his incarnation as the sacrificial lamb, flanked by Mary....
...I looked at this alert, friendly, bright-eyed man of 40, with the bubbling, boyish voice belying the starting-to-grey beard, and I thought, “He’s an 11-year-old.”...
...His regulation heavy-framed glasses and beard evoke the film student again. He is quietly spoken and earnest, and slimmed down from his first film appearances....
...With a bushy rabbi’s beard and the demeanour of an earnest professor, Dov Hayun makes for an unlikely outlaw....
...moderate, earnest tones....
...In March I attend one workshop hosted by the Coalition, “Homelessness 101”, which is packed with several dozen earnest young people wanting to know how to help....
...A former sailor from Normandy, who sports a white captain’s beard and an office decorated with maritime memorabilia, Mr Lefèvre jokes that he is now landlocked in central France....
...It seems so wrong to hate hipsters — why dislike this earnest generation whose worst flaw is their ability to Pinterest and vision-board entire neighbourhoods?...
...In the event, the precipitation arrived in earnest on Saturday, but it was not enough seriously to dampen spirits at a bijou three-day event that has become one of the jewels in the festival calendar....
...“But people who grow beards and make love are supposed to move from innocence to wisdom,” he admonished....
...Then Stefano Boeri’s Bosco Verticale in MiIan kicked off the new trend in earnest....
...“You see these grossly overweight 60-year-olds wearing Satanist T-shirts and beards and studs,” he laughs. “There’s something terribly sweet about that.”...
...It is still used all over the world by sweet-natured, earnest types with wispy beards. Esperanto is gently risible....
...The series, all beards and trumpets, was characterised by the kind of silliness that can only result from attempts at solemnity....
...“It really is, yeah,” agrees James, his hair a demolished haystack, his beard a battle between a Confederate conscript and David Crosby in his prime....
...Perry’s show is the British Museum’s most extensive commitment to contemporary art in its recent history, and in a serious – almost earnest – moment he talks of how “honoured” it makes him feel....
...One of the first people he met was Elmar Schoffeneger, a friendly man in his forties with a wild beard and a Confederate soldier’s hat....
...He was asked by an earnest journalist if drawing the book had given him a “glimmer of God”, and he was quick to set the record straight: “It had the opposite effect on me,” he said....
...One difficulty of the play is that Dr Feldmann is a bit too close to a stock dramatic shrink, with his silvery beard, German accent and eccentric little habits....
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