Word: earnest
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...finishing up at Worthington. And so I’m left to wonder about the Shabbat dinner that never was, with the girl that never really existed, and the relationship that might have been: how neither Dawson nor Pacey could have measured up to the earnest Jewish boy Joey Potter might have met one magical evening at Harvard Hillel...
...life has been less devoted to piety than to speed and glitter. 'I live on adrenaline,' DeLorean said flatly 13 years ago, when he was a golden boy at General Motors ... A few months ago, just when the FBI says he began planning his drug-dealing scheme in earnest, DeLorean told a group of sports car dealers: 'We will do anything to keep this company alive.' But what he really seemed committed to keeping alive was an image of himself: John DeLorean, the smart and plucky maverick businessman, the high-stakes gambler who makes his own rules and always wins...
...goose, however, had little impact in slowing down the Crimson boat. Harvard quickly regained its composure and began its sprint in earnest, completing the course in a time...
...headed, largely because the Boss has left his boot prints on this territory before, most famously on 1982's Nebraska and 1995's The Ghost of Tom Joad. Those albums chronicled closed lives in open spaces with the kind of ascetic social realism you might find in a particularly earnest newspaper series, but they also had Springsteen's venerable empathy to warm them up and dramatize them. Fact and feeling mingle again on Devils, but not always in the proper proportion. The boxer on The Hitter who passes his estranged ma's house one night and mumbles...
...further away from St. Peter's Square - some Vatican sources don't like talking when other journalists or clerics might walk by. What I learned was that the discussion of a new pope has not really progressed since John Paul II died, and it will likely begin in earnest only after his burial. And my sources tell me that the cardinals are considering imposing a total media blackout even before the conclave begins to prevent speculation on the outcome of their deliberations...