Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still be working on my acting on my death bed, practicing my last words," he told the audience at a luncheon before the reception. Julia mimicked an earnest invalid: "How do I look, do I look too pale...
...housing scramble begins in earnest for first-years today, as students are given forms to select their four house choices for next year...
...most people, the Cocteau Twins take somegetting used to. The flowery, psychedelic tones ofFraser's voice, and the moan of the instrumentalbacking are an acquired taste. (Some may say it'sa taste not worth acquiring.) In any case, itseems that only a very earnest Cocteau Twins fanwould want to buy a ten-CD collection of theirmusic. If taken in large doses, you'll find thatone so-called song will begin to sound very muchlike all the rest.wagonesque a worthwhile purchase...
...time for shaking hands and kissing babies. At least shaking hands. Make a favorable impression: earnest, young man who just wants to help Massachusetts' future...
...first preview, a year-long national tour starting in September had already been booked around the U.S. But the $5.5 million staging of composer-lyricist Frank Loesser's comic gem will be hard pressed to equal the emotional impact of his Most Happy Fella, telling of an inept but earnest quest for love by a hulking, homely immigrant farmer in California's Napa Valley. The book, also by Loesser, is intermittently burdened with the same irritating cuteness and insincerity that lumbers Crazy for You and so many others of its ilk. The score, as well, has an overabundance...