Word: earnestly
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Shortly after the premiere of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest in 1895, the Marquess of Queensbury, rankled by his son's homosexual relationship with Wilde, harassed Wilde in public. Wilde responded by setting in motion a libel suit that would eventually lead to his own conviction for sodomy, then imprisonment and loss of public appreciation of his art. Gross Indecency recreates the trial that shook the creative world, drawing from a number of accounts, including Wilde's lover Lord Alfred Douglas, George Bernard Shaw and Wilde's riotous testimony during the trial itself. Wilde crafts...
...Green World, the fourth and latest album from folk singer Dar Williams, is a beautiful chronicle of self-realization, full of revelations and confidences. The simple rhythmic accompaniment, returning to a more folksy sound after her last effort "End of the Summer," showcases Williams' earnest vocals and beautiful lyrics...
...always Treasuries, which have thrived amid the interest-rate tension all summer. And the Dow is holding up rather well in a dour season. But the word on the Street is that NASDAQ will be back, one of these days. Maybe when this earnings season gets rolling in earnest later this month - what we're in now is called "pre-announcement purgatory," when the news is almost all bad - and some happier numbers come...
...Games. A lot of different circles were rounded off that night. Freeman stepped lightly into the water, and built a wall of flame around her. As the cauldron rose, the stadium was reverently quiet. Then Freeman walked out of the waterfall, and the crowd gave her this fervent, earnest, "Good on yer, Cathy...
...started thinking about all this, about how the Olympics had visited Australia and were now leaving the country better than it was before. I realized that you could make the argument, if all of this earnest testimony wasn't hogwash, that Cathy's triumph indeed was the most important sports performance since Owens', and was therefore in contention as the most important thing to happen in the world last week. You can go further: The most important thing to happen in the world in a given week hadn't happened in Australia since the first Aboriginal raft floated over...