It is completely earnest.
For Marcus, unlike most earlier Roth heroes, is a complete innocent: an earnest, dutiful boy, who remains an earnest, dutiful boy until the day he dies — a boy whose only goals in his brief, truncated college career are to get straight A's, lose his virginity and go on to law school.
This great question and the fact that I was being asked in earnest by complete strangers put me in a complicated place.
With the results official, the country's various factions are now expected to begin negotiations in earnest over a coalition government that will preside over the country as the American military completes its withdrawal.
His transition from carefree, water-splashing pre-teen pool patron to earnest employee was complete one scorching weekend day last summer when the pool was packed to capacity.
But in a couple of months' time, when the tests are complete, the particle-smashing will begin in earnest.
Finally, at the age of 27 or 28, van Gogh began creating art in earnest, quickening the pace to complete nearly 900 works in the decade before his death in 1890.
In the film, Ms Banks shows an intense and earnest performer, trying to conjure the complete emotional depth of his songs for the audiences gathered in small venues across America.
Once the America Online-Time Warner deal was formally completed in January, Mr. Levin said, he turned in earnest to the task of preparing for his successor.
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.
