Word: earnestly
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...common thread linking Fo’s diverse creations, however, is a deeply serious core. Fo is not the type to elicit laughter that doesn’t also hurt on some level. The subjects he chooses to explore are those that even the most earnest and high-minded dramatists would be wary to bring on stage; the violence of the extreme right, worker uprisings, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
...those people, those preening “free thinkers” and earnest, self-congratulatory “humanitarians,” one can only ask if there is any limit to their smug, mindless detachment from the life of their country, and from the natural feelings of their fellow...
...Knows Nothing--buffoons like Home Improvement's Tim Taylor and Homer Simpson, whose lunkheaded maleness is their weakness. Now we're seeing dads like Malcolm in the Middle's Hal (Bryan Cranston), a boob but a nurturing one who wears every emotion on his sleeve. On the slight but earnest Danny (Fridays, 8:30 p.m. E.T., starts Sept. 21), Daniel Stern plays a single dad who has just turned 40, is vaguely dissatisfied with life and shares his innermost sentiments with his kids to the point of their exhaustion. Stern sees some of himself in the character...
Soft spoken and slight, with earnest dark eyes and short, carefully combed black hair, Shah Mohammed knew, as president of HIS, that he would be called on to lead the Muslim community at Harvard through this tragedy...
What's more, the very term protest music has always assumed a Western liberal-humanist bias. We think of earnest guitar strummers in natural fabrics singing for human rights and tolerance. But as recent history teaches, in the new cold war--between the Hollywood/Mickey D's axis and every other world culture--genuine cultural pride can morph into nationalism, racism and worse. To the world's musical rebels today, is the enemy within or without...