Word: earnest
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...across the terminal and started talking to her. She did not know the man, she says, recounting the story, but he knew her--knew, at least, what she had once been--and he had something urgent to say. "You've spent enough time with your family now," the stranger, earnest and friendly, told Karen Hughes. "They need you back at the White House...
...hard at his new teammates' jokes and holds his hand on their backs just a second too long at spring training--not because he doesn't know it will seem as if he's trying too hard but precisely because he wants it to. He speaks with the calm, earnest seriousness of a man who is 50 instead of 28. He slips your name, Anthony Robbins style, into every fourth sentence. When you ask him what he's looking forward to about living in New York City since his sensational trade to the Yankees in the off-season, he becomes...
Made up of former Bright Eyes members Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor, this Southern girl duo offer pretty voices and dreamy indie-pop. Los Angeles’ earnest quartet The Elected also perform. As do Neva Dinova and Consafos. Tickets $10 advance, $12 day of show. 18+. 9 p.m. T.T. the Bear’s Place...
Tantric are the opposite of the sort of rock n roll anarchy purveyed by The Darkness. Replete with acoustic guitars, wooden basslines and earnest guitar solos, the music sounds as heavily produced as Britney. This is not an entirely bad thing—the music is smooth and even, exerting a vaguely soporific effect. This is the sort of music angry teenagers listen to in order to piss off the parents while catching a nap. The requisite heaviness, showcased on the cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” is offset throughout by acoustic...
Green says The Weather Underground began in earnest in 1998 out of “curiosity” springing from a series of conversations with a former activist living near him in San Francisco...