Word: earnest
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After six admirable but unadorable records, this trio of very earnest, very intense women from the Northwest decided to let loose their inner Led Zeppelin. The guitar playing is heavy, dexterous and hook laden, but the polish of the melodies never obscures their calling card--the raw, intermingled wails of Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein...
...Sleater-Kinney The Woods; $14.98 After six admirable but unadorable records, this trio of very earnest, very intense women from the Northwest decided to let loose their inner Led Zeppelin. The guitar playing is heavy, dexterous and hook laden, but the polish of the melodies never obscures their calling card-the raw, intermingled wails of Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein. Best Tracks: The Fox, Jumpers, Rollercoaster...
He’s so earnest, it hurts. He’s so simple-minded, so over-the-top, so easy to understand, so vulnerable, so whiny…really, he’s the last, best hope for nerdy, unhip intellectuals everywhere. He lacks anything resembling grit, and has to settle for over-achieving solemnity, instead. And he succeeds! And he doesn’t even need a girl! Which brings us to our third point?...
...that way too.” As the most experienced team member, Neyfakh was uniquely aware of the challenges that the rookies would face en route to Candia. Though Fee was well on his way to New Hampshire, more problems surfaced as his dance team began to gestate in earnest...
Though she authors in a tone that is the opposite of earnest, almost all the rest of the time Annie M. Lowrey ’06-’07 tells the truth: wonderfully, brutally, with vague hints of a British accent, and frequent droppings of obscure vocabulary words. This is not an easy skill, especially not if you are a nice person, which is the remarkable thing about Annie. In addition to being 100 percent genuine, she is also 100 percent nice. When you don’t know the meaning of most of the words she has just...