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Word: earnest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...physical appearance of his stars) is lyricism. You see his effort in the lingering shots of seaside cliffs, the neverending play of ethereal Celtic music meant to suggest a world of characters both noble and haunting, the inscrutable nods to druidism, the acting that is, alas, always solidly earnest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: MANY SWORDS BUT NO EDGE | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

...were concerned with the social pathologies of the rich rather than the poor), today's young audiences may find themselves entranced rather than repelled by the movie's upscale ticky-tacky decor and more likely to respond to the sound track's cha-cha lounge music than to its earnest baby-boom lullabies by Simon and Garfunkel. The generation gap has come full circle. Kids today--they'd rather play Rat Pack in Vegas than run off with Katharine Ross on a bus to self-actualizationland. Plastics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUST ONE WORD | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

...exist, it has become a cornerstone of belief for the UFO community. They are, by the way, quite a diverse and fractious group of folks--studies say they tend to be better educated than the norm--whose numbers include casual believers; so-called UFOlogists, most of whom are pretty earnest in their efforts to document UFO sightings with something approaching objective rigor; contactees, who believe they have had telepathic communication with aliens; abductees, who believe they have been subjected to experimentation by E.T.s; and cultists like the Heaven's Gaters, who are an enormous source of embarrassment to their comparatively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROSWELL OR BUST | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

...micro-level, we started collecting dues in earnest and making sure people fulfilled their business requirements so that we could achieve a balanced budget," Savage said...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, | Title: After Year of Money Woes, Advocate Reorganizes | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...Turning earnest, Rudenstine encouraged students to "turn in the best performance you can in life," and said that Harvard's newest graduates should always consider it home...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: Rev. Gomes Leads Baccalaureate Service | 6/4/1997 | See Source »

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