The BBC, always earnestly conscious of its public duty, has devoted much time and thought to creating suitable programmes, from "Children's Hour" in the early days of radio to "Blue Peter" on television.
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.
So when Mum makes what I take to be the entirely rhetorical statement of "I don't know why but I can't remember a thing these days," they always rather earnestly tell her she's suffering from dementia.
Williams acknowledges this (PHD: 83): "Hare has always wanted, and earnestly wanted, moral philosophy to have an effect, to make a difference.
At the time, a small clique of right-wingers in the college were always, whether waggishly or earnestly, urging support for the apartheid regime in South Africa.
But if Kit can be an exasperating writer, with a penchant for the passive or intransitive voice ("Few words of praise had come my way from him"), he is always personal, always trying earnestly to understand, and his book makes a persuasive case for Felix's relative sanity.
On a Saturday night, the room was crowded and painfully noisy, and the servers struggled earnestly and not always successfully to keep up.
The pair explaining earnestly why they always take their own food on holiday – after the Italian trip where they had to live on bread rolls – was pure Little Britain joy.
Actually, I'm not wild about self-conscious resort hotels like the Boulders, with hyper-eager young employees who always seem to be murmuring earnestly into Secret Service-like lapel microphones.
He wasn't, of course, and went on to earnestly explain how he always travels before he writes and how he reads hundreds of books so he knows the subject matter intimately.
Trying to assure a skeptical Erica (Diane Keaton) that he has feelings for her, love-averse Harry Jack Nicholsonn) earnestly declares, "I have always told you some version of the truth".
