Word: earnest
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...pragmatic." He was Vice Premier in Prodi's first government from 1996 to 1998, before moving over to run the capital. Pale and bespectacled, next to the ever-tan, ever-spiffy Berlusconi, the Rome mayor has high-culture tendencies and a book-writing hobby; he has written an earnest novel and a biography of a little-known jazz musician. Veltroni even gets a mention in Ian McEwan's best-selling novel Saturday...
...pressure paid off 13:23 into the second, when Taylor assisted sophomore Doug Rogers on a shot past Divine from the right side for a 1-0 Harvard lead. After a big save from sophomore netminder Kyle Richter, Pelle’s night began in earnest. Twenty-five seconds into a Crimson power play, Pelle hit paydirt on a wrist shot from the left side to pad the lead. The Big Green managed to eliminate Harvard’s insurance not long after, netting a score of its own as the second period wound to a close. But with...
After a big save from sophomore netminder Kyle Richter, Pelle’s night began in earnest. 25 seconds into a Crimson power play, Pelle found the back of the net on a wrist shot from the left side to pad the lead...
Playing a guy who acts with only his eyes and his biceps is harder than playing a fast-talking, earnest boxer, especially on a 61-year-old body. Which was one of the reasons Stallone wanted to do it. He pumped up to a freakish 209 lbs. (95 kg); in Rambo II he weighed only 168 (76 kg). And, he insists, he did it without steroids, though with the help of a prescription testosterone. "HGH [human growth hormone] is nothing. Anyone who calls it a steroid is grossly misinformed," he says. "Testosterone to me is so important for a sense...
...what he has done takes Allen into emotional territory he has not this fully explored in his previous reflections on capital crimes. Which is not to say that Cassandra's Dream is quite the breakthrough film I think it might have been. It is a talkative film, rather earnest in its tonalities, not at all a deft, witty or well-paced. On the other hand, it is, for Allen, a comparatively rare excursion into lower-class life - the setting is London, as it has been in his two previous films - and its portrayal of the contortions upward striving can impose...