Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard began its peppering of the Quaker netminder in earnest 10 minutes into the game. Its first real chance came in the 12th minute, when senior back Ashley Marynick blasted a powerful shot that forced Kluetmeier airborne. The Penn keeper barely tipped it over the crossbar to keep her streak alive...
Robin Williams becomes morose and earnest, a man who cannot appreciate even heaven. Williams is known for his rapid delivery and wit here seems slow and dull. He barely moves his mouth throughout the film and refuses to raise his eyes. This dour performance becomes all the more evident when Williams appears with Cuba Gooding, Jr., who breathes some life into the story. Gooding, whose energy recalls Williams' early comedic work, is a constant reminder of what Williams lacks in What Dreams May Come. The role is a serious one, but Williams is too earnest even considering the solemn subject...
Saving Private Ryan is neither a great film nor Spielberg's best effort, mostly because of one significant flaw: a weak, almost nonexistent storyline. A troop of soldiers (led by Tom Hanks, earnest and convincing as always in this limited role) is ordered to seek out a private who, fighting somewhere in France, is unaware that his three brothers have been killed in action. The U.S. government wants to send Private Ryan home to his bereaved mother...
About three years ago, the human experiment began in earnest. IVF recruited couples who wanted a child of a particular sex, either to bring "gender balance" to their family or to help them avoid sex-linked genetic diseases for which their offspring could be at risk. The procedure took no more than a day and cost a non-reimbursable $2,500 a try. "I actually watched the sperm enter my body on the screen of the ultrasound machine," marvels Monique Collins, 33, of Gainesville, Va., one of the program's first successes...
...earnest questing, Lindbergh was capable of a shocking naivete and obtuseness--or, many thought, something worse. He had a sinister habit of thinking in terms of racial superiorities and inferiorities. During the late '30s, he led the isolationist "America First" forces that sought to keep the U.S. out of European war. Although he undertook an essentially patriotic mission to evaluate Nazi aviation for U.S. authorities, he seemed to make excuses for Hitler, even in the face of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935 and other evidence of the Nazis' murderous intentions toward the Jews. In October 1938, a month before Kristallnacht...