Word: earnestness
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...starts with the red cups at Starbucks. Next come the Christmas lights. Then there’s the earnest and guilt-inducing “happy holidays and God bless!” from our favorite ruddy-cheeked, open-palmed bums...
...really have appreciated the way she’s been very accommodating of student groups,” says Kiran N. Bhat ’10, the treasurer of the South Asian Association. “She made an earnest effort to really streamline the process...
...years ago, when Khaled Hosseini began writing fiction in earnest, he was reluctant to give up his day job as an internist in California. "I thought it completely outlandish and unattainable, the idea of becoming a writer," says Afghan-born Hosseini. Even after his first book, The Kite Runner, became an international publishing phenomenon in 2003 (6 million copies in print in the U.S. and 18 million worldwide) and a critically acclaimed film, he still found it hard to imagine that his writing career would last. "For a year and a half after its publication, I refused to believe that...
...across the radio. But dropping me off for my first year of college, she confessed, “I went to Studio 54 once. It was closing. I barely saw anything and left.” At the time, I took this extra-contextual detour as a strange, but earnest, act of de-maternalization—a PG-13 parable with the moral that, while we all at one point find ourselves in dens of vice, we can and should make sane decisions nonetheless. Recently though, I just can’t help but think that perhaps she was just...
After years of talk, the movement to write a treaty banning cluster bombs began in earnest in January 2007, when several countries got fed up with the usual diplomatic process, Docherty said in an interview from Oslo...