Word: earnest
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Perhaps the current partisan acrimony arose partly from the Federal Communications Commission's elimination in the 1980s of the fairness doctrine in radio and television broadcasting. If broadcasters and talk-show hosts had to make an earnest effort to present both sides of an issue, maybe voters could find a middle ground. DOUGLAS A. CLARK South San Francisco
...this show many, many times over. It went without a single hitch, contrived little song interludes and all. People complained that he was being “pissy,” but who expects larger-than-life rappers to get on a stool and pour their hearts out in earnest? Dropping “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See” only to stop it two seconds in; making fun of the crowd for being “tired,” blazing through half a verse of “Break Ya Neck” before...
...wound. Carr, who looks back on events from a distance of over 50 years, has a memory that is deeply riddled, resulting in many contradictory versions of unlikely events and the curious melding of the play’s plot and dialogue with that of The Importance of Being Earnest, in which Carr played Algernon in a production mounted by James Joyce...
...Reverend Hale is the only character that switches sides during the play; he goes from signing death warrants of witches to rejecting the entire process that fed the flame. His performance is cyclic—restrained at times and overflowing with fervor other times. Yet he is earnest throughout, lending Hale the appeal of one who has come back from the dark side...
...Farrah Fawcett of the world of geek boys, and in 1977, Farrah could have wiped out Barnes & Noble if she had wanted to. But I also say me because Fey would never do something like that herself. "The girls I know in comedy are all very earnest in person," she says. "We went to good schools and were obedient. The guys dropped out of college...