It is earnestly to be hoped that his successor gets it too.
"While I was on board I soon realised that the boot room, where we all changed our clothing and left our shoes, had turned into a scene of social chaos," McEwan said, describing how the eminent scientists, who down the hall were gathering to talk earnestly about the future of the humankind, were also capable of stealing each others' footwear and regarding their colleagues with deep distrust.
But when Imlay abandoned her, she wrote to her friend Amelia Alderson that she "earnestly desired to resign a name which seemed to disgrace me".
Here, grown men talk earnestly about dog poo: "Feed your dog this and it will live longer, have a great coat, good teeth and great energy," says Davies.
Hearing such avowals earnestly delivered by the besotted title character of "Charlie Countryman" to his tough Romanian dream girl, you don't know whether to laugh or to wince.
One fellow competitor earnestly advises me to stick corn plasters over my nipples if I don't want the front of my vest "looking like a bloody Japanese flag".
One minute she is theorising earnestly about the difference between Germany and Britain's postwar traumas, the next she is giggling as if she's just caught herself auditioning for Pseuds Corner: "I wonder what status being the victor gives to the trauma.
It is really painful when they don't listen to us, when they don't want to understand," says 17-year-old group member Deepa earnestly.
In one of our conversations, when we had already come to know each other well and were talking amicably, though as always, earnestly, I asked her why she felt so comfortable sitting on a nuclear powder keg.
It is hardest on the women who have worked so earnestly for the vote, and who cherished the illusion that when they got it they would put the right man in.
He mashes his knees together earnestly.
