Hints and tips:
...And who wasn’t moved when Luke Combs, whose earnest take on Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” helped it win a Country Music Award several decades after its release, was joined on stage by Chapman at the Grammys...
...Earnest grapplings that would look nothing special in the flat glare of a grey afternoon are transformed by his carefully concentrated beams....
...McNair has a sharp ear for taunting banter, and as a performer he moves skilfully between his characters — occasionally tipping from winningly gauche to over-earnest....
...By contrast, the global market for fossils and meteorites is a relatively new phenomenon, which started in earnest in the 1970s and has ballooned in recent years....
...Then Stefano Boeri’s Bosco Verticale in MiIan kicked off the new trend in earnest....
...With crude prices down more than half since June, the struggle over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline from western Canada to the US may look like two bald men fighting over a comb....
...middle of that period, the US elected a new president who was notably more enthusiastic about tackling climate change than his predecessor, giving governments less than a year in which to negotiate in earnest...
...Soft-spoken, earnest, always neatly dressed in a suit, he was quiet to the point of being dull....
...Even his assessment of his effort to get black people and young people to the polls is half-jest, half-earnest: “This is the thing right now, cat daddy... this is like a pair of bellbottoms....
International Edition