But he did believe, earnestly and passionately, in hard work and sacrifice.
And in contrast with Austen's light touch, Eliot occasionally ran the risk of being doctrinaire — a worthwhile danger when one believes as earnestly as she did in the improving powers of literature, and the way in which a novel might change a reader's life.
And in contrast with Austen's light touch, Eliot occasionally ran the risk of being doctrinaire a worthwhile danger when one believes as earnestly as she did in the improving powers of literature, and the way in which a novel might change a reader's life.
"I do it because I believe so earnestly in literary prizes being the most wonderful showcase for writers and because writing, for some reason, is such an envied and sexy profession now – everyone seems to want to write a book, and it is getting harder and harder to get visibility of any kind.
My seven years of reporting on and interviewing the company lead me to believe it earnestly believes in free speech despite the ugly side effects, and this scandal has been driven by its idealistic leadership's naivety about the worst of humanity rather than greed.
The Atlantic Monthly's Conor Friedersdorf offers a hypothetical: Consider an issue like abortion, which divides the country in a particularly intense way, with opponents earnestly regarding it as the murder of an innocent baby and many abortion-rights supporters earnestly believing that a foetus is not a human life, and that outlawing it is a horrific assault on a woman's bodily autonomy.
As I wrote in June, McDaniel went onto the show earnestly believing he was there to impress potential investors, but his impression after the show was that in fact, "I was speaking to entertainers.
We earnestly believe that we're fully awake and at our best.
Throughout my twenties I earnestly believed Oliver Stone's account of the JFK assassination.
She earnestly believed in the truth of her confession, as most of her fellow-participants did theirs.
"We were going to be this 100-years jobs engine for the country, or so we all earnestly believed".
