Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hopes. While liberals respond by resurrecting arguments to confirm their long-established prejudices, thinking conservatives might just begin to reevaluate their approach to equal opportunity and their urge to dismantle government. The flaws in Murray's work just might serve to highlight the flaws in our own most earnest convictions...
...based on the reactions of some other council candidates, Bonfili's earnest ideal of real and lasting reform may be an impossibility in the wake of last year's schism...
...Simpson case today, completing the first round in the selection process. The next step: all 311 candidates get grilled by attorneys on both sides next month. The goal is to narrow the field down to 12 finalists and eight alternates for the trial, which will begin in earnest in November...
...those moments the moralists live for: nice young man -- good family, college teacher, an earnest intellectual yet rather cuddlesome -- is caught cheating not only in public but also on television. Fame and fortune were the prizes he very nearly got away with, but infamy was his final reward...
Peck wrote his The Road Less Traveled in 1978, and it is still racking up some $300,000 a year in royalties. It is an earnest and generally inoffensive advice book that begins with the admission that "life is difficult" and stipulates immediately that "without discipline we can solve nothing." Its astonishing appeal may not be that people actually read it and are elevated. Rather, it appears, they buy it to give to irritating friends. Making a present of The Road Less Traveled has become a socially acceptable way of saying, "Estelle, your insulation is beginning to char." Everyone knows...