But does Miranda want to see Adam? "What, she wonders, is at stake in his offer?" In the mid-1960s, when they were earnest, striving teenagers, they fell for each other after Adam, a brilliant pianist, accompanied Miranda in her audition for their high school glee club.
"Butterflies" starred Keir Dullea as Don Baker, the earnest, striving blind man; Eileen Heckart as his mother; and Blythe Danner as Jill Tanner, the flaky young woman who lives next door, falls in love with him, leaves him and finally returns.
Which is to say that the second-generation robots Yang despises so, with their filial piety, grade-grubbing, Ivy League mania, deference to authority, humility and hard work, harmonious relations, sacrificing for the future, and earnest, striving middle-class servility?
In our earnest striving for finesse, we sometimes embellish simple words, adorning them with extra syllables.
But, perhaps, in this divisive national campaign season, our church's earnest striving for unity offers a lesson for all of us about how people of good will and strong faith in the future can indeed come together.
As if sensing that the hunt for the two gunmen might soon overshadow the stories of the dead, friends and relatives of the victims paused from their mourning yesterday, opened their doors and shared grief-clouded memories: of earnest striving and young love, of proud moments and a pretty good Elvis impersonation.
But there is also a kind of sincerity that can seem to the jaded eye like self-parody, and the earnest, heartfelt striving of the two men at the center of Anvil makes the band's story more touching than comical.
One gets the sense that there is a formal universal design to how poets put manuscripts together, how they hit the high and low notes with prologue and epilogue, how they check the different politically correct boxes, how they strike the right tone in terms of earnest personal striving (which is also completely depoliticized at the same time).
She fit the profile of this docile, earnest opera, which strove so mightily and so dully to fit some kind of perceived mold but sadly proved as insubstantial as its heroine.
Their earnest biography strives to finally give Mr. Carey and the talented people he attracted to state government the credit they deserve.
At an agency that strives for earnest probity, Pruitt's blundering, for which he is now the target of Government Accountability Office and congressional investigations, stands out in vulgar relief.
