Word: earnestly
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...Backstreet-penned songs on the new album are not without flaws; they lack the sparkle of Max Martin originals and all too often resort to clich-driven lyrics easily mistakable for greeting-card poetry. Even with these flaws, however, the Boys' songwriting efforts reveal an earnest and largely successful attempt by the group to become creatively involved in their music. Particularly worthy is Kevin Richardson's "It's True" and Howie Dorough's "How Did I Fall in Love With You"; two songs whose simple background chords and sincere lyrics invoke sentimentality for even the staunchest skeptics of pop music...
...serious!" the Earnest Young Democrat threw himself back in the plush chair and stared at the Wily Old Democrat. Behind the leonine head and silver-white hair, a floor-to-ceiling window framed a spectacular view of Washington, the kind of view a $750-an-hour consummate insider can afford...
...been a Democrat since..." the Earnest Young Democrat began...
...great ease. Alternately imperious and juvenile, she resembles nothing so much as a rebellious teenager encountering a midlife crisis. Next to these harpies, the two supporting male characters appear as all sweetness and light. Derry Woodhouse milks his honeyed brogue for all its worth, making his character Pato an earnest, lovable womanizer. Matthew Ellis as Pato's brother Ray is less successful. Aside from a few outpourings of the perennially amusing Irish swear word "feck!", his dialect and his mannerisms fail to convey the sense of a bored and insolent Irish...
...destructive forces of a materialist, male society. What really makes this annoying is that the Lois Foster Exhibition is ostensibly an even-handed survey of Boston-area art. In fact, it's a feminist art show-both the curators and all the artists were women and all these earnest bits of text ran along gender-political lines-that never comes out and calls itself a feminist art show. If it had-if all the same work had been shown, and all the same theory-heavy exegeses beside them, but it was explicitly presented as feminist-it would have been...