Mr. Earnest, 37, is the principal deputy press secretary at the White House in Washington.
The people who get nominated for things tend to be earnest 24/7.
Mr. Allen, a polite, self-contained, unfailingly earnest 23-year-old married Arkansan, is Mr. Boone.
There are a few Ron Paul-supporting libertarians, and there are people like Hillary Lazar, an earnest 33-year-old anti-poverty worker.
The party was the brainchild of Levi Felix, an earnest 28-year-old and self-identified recovering techie.
PHILIPP MISSFELDER is a tall, earnest 24-year-old, head of the youth organisation of Germany's Christian Democrats (CDU).
A 1988 BBC production of "The Importance of Being Earnest" (110 minutes), starring Joan Plowright and Gemma Jones, coincides with Oliver Parker's "Earnest," which opened in theaters on Wednesday.
It's no wonder this earnest 22-year-old, impeccably polite though his sentences are littered with swearwords, is curious about being treated differently.
WHEN Pierre Morel made "Taken" in 2008, he transformed Liam Neeson from an earnest 50-something thespian into a bankable action hero.
But it hit me while listening to "Mylo Xyloto" — at the behest, I'll admit, of a very hip and earnest 12-year-old — it's just pop!
As it is, they appear for the first time since the insurgency got going in earnest 18 months ago to be on the defensive.
