Although Cassandra Kubinski's Mirette is an earnest effort, the earnestness and the effort are all too visible.
That's why the bill we have rolled out is not a half-baked policy proposal but an earnest effort to address a chronic problem in the system.
But all that changed a week or so ago when Facebook began an earnest effort to build a Facebook Music application (Venturebeat has some of the details, although parts of their story conflict with information we've obtained).
Durbano defended Chicora's project as an earnest effort to improve a run-down building.
He sounded torn, likely to make an earnest effort but not an all-out one, and certain only that he would not reveal his approach this week.
Schlink's latest novel, about a pardoned German political terrorist and his old friends and comrades discussing life, sex, growing up and the German past, during a country house weekend, is again an earnest effort to combine high seriousness with literary appeal.
All right, Vranes only played eight minutes yesterday (and managed to accumulate no rebounds and four fouls), but why take cheap shots at a Knicks organization that is making an earnest effort to reverse the erosion of quality that threatens to get everyone in their front office fired by the end of next season?
With a title like "The Physics of the Buffyverse," most of the uninitiated will probably take a pass on the book, but it makes an earnest effort to introduce the laws of physics to couch potatoes in a relatively painless way.
The inspector general's investigation grappled with the question of whether the outreach constituted an earnest effort to inform the public or an improper campaign of news media manipulation.
Even when your child complains, they will sense the difference between an angry, reactionary move on your part, and an earnest effort to assist them in completing their work.
Facilitators were careful not to influence the conversation with preconceived ideas, which position was supported by the presence of a non-scientist on the facilitation team, and made an earnest effort to allow every voice to be heard.
