Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PRIMARY RACES, ESPECIALLY the early ones, look so earnest and earthy it is easy to mistake them for truly democratic exercises. When Pat Buchanan walked away with New Hampshire last week, he took pleasure in arguing that The People had found their voice, jostled the conventional wisdom, spooked the party elders and voted their hearts...
...Junior Parents Weekend schedule continues in earnest today, beginning with a morning assembly on students' perspectives on undergraduate life...
Ultimately, it's the talent and energy of its actors that saves "Savage/Love" from the rubble heap of disposable pseudo-culture. The facile sound and fury of "love with its own mythology, its minor and pointless magic" is made to sound almost meaningful by Tom Giordano's earnest delivery. His scenes, which seem to focus predominantly on insecurity and isolation, evoke not pity but slow admiration for his character's courage...
After a full year of earnest campaigning, all polls indicate that the field of eight contenders has become a statistical dead heat between Sen. Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.), political commentator Patrick J. Buchanan and former Tennessee governor Lamar Alexander...
...review committee is, as far as I can tell, rational and earnest and genuinely interested in providing us with a liberal arts education. I was skeptical at the beginning about the administration's power over the Core and about students' role on the review committee. Some professors and students have asked me if the committee has some sort of political agenda, if it favors the sciences over the humanities. But contrary to these suspicions, I have not noticed any bias in committee meetings...