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...They outdo the most earnest postgraduate Marxist monologist in their belief that anything and everything can be politicised....
...His earnest, nerdy persona charmed figures from Wall Street regulators to the pop star Katy Perry....
...When the narrator evokes Perry thinking of his sister as “a diademed queen sitting down among the freaks and the lepers and trying to blend in” it’s clear that the pretentiousness is Perry’s alone....
...But it does capture in some sense how an earnest affirmation of a collective ethos can look to those who are not with you in the room but also have a stake in what you are saying....
...Early on, Davis had the idea that she might like to become a barrister: “I think I watched too much Perry Mason when I was a kid,” she says, “because I always liked the idea of performing in court.”...
...Drug companies say it is still too early to say whether medical marijuana will take off in earnest....
...In that sense, he could be the right kind of character — earnest and low-key — to restore Wells’ lustre. But Mr Sloan has his work cut out for him....
...Also, heightened uncertainty is likely to persist as negotiations on a future trade deal begin in earnest....
...In 1979 “To Love Somebody” received an earnest rendition by Hank Williams Jr, giving it country credibility....
...Watch their performance on Top of the Pops: the group — earnest and long-haired — seem almost embarrassed by the song’s primary-coloured glibness. This was the end of the 1960s....
...Discussions on a new “code of conduct” for space, proposed by the bloc, began in earnest in July....
...Rick Perry, the Texas governor whose state is the target destination of most migrants, has criticised the White House for not devoting enough resources to policing the border....
...That list includes George H W Bush and Ronald Reagan, said Josh Earnest, White House spokesman, this week....
...Perry Green must make the effort to visit)....
...His verse is disarmingly earnest, with an unwavering focus on political and social reality that gives this the air of that rare thing: an honest manifesto....
...But he said, with just months to go before the federal funds are meant to begin flowing into the state, it was time to begin negotiating in earnest with the federal government and to eschew an “all or nothing...
...’s Cave” (2009) and a Grayson Perry pot boxing in the lilting abstracted forms of Miró’s painting “Les Philosophes”....
...Michele Bachmann, the wild congresswoman from Minnesota, Jon Huntsman, the earnest former Utah governor, and Rick Santorum, the pious former senator, have at least been able to speak to the masses rather...
...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....
...Perry Huang, a vice-president at Chinatrust Commercial Bank, one of the biggest in Taiwan, says investors began turning to high-yield bond funds in earnest in the second half because they “regained confidence...
...Until the hedge fund industry took off in earnest in the 1990s, the Channel Islands were leading centres for offshore funds....
...Turner favours conceptualism, in recent years there has always been one flamboyant, boisterous maker on the short-list: sculptor Rebecca Warren last year, Jim Lambie in 2005, Yinka Shonibare (2004), Grayson Perry...
...Britain’s supermarkets are clearly already feeling the hot breath of potential regulation down their necks and have all been huffing and puffing about their earnest desire to source lower alcohol products...
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