The lyrics were earnest statements of affection toward the divine.
It's an earnest demonstration of affection from Conservatives4Palin. Can Mitt Romney's fans do better?
Vincent Canby, of the New York Times, wrote that Sjöman showed "obvious affection for Lena of the earnest, pretty face and the somewhat rotund figure that betrays every candy bar she has ever eaten.
For all the stern fortitude he evinced in combat, he had a softer side, too, most in evidence with his female inner circle, with whom he joked and had earnest theological discussions, and whom he showered with affection.
When Hussain in the Membrane begins in earnest – with a bit about white people's universal affection for dogs – the culture shock is taken down a notch.
Here is a book that provides total pleasure — a picaresque contemporary "Candide" or "Don Quixote," written with both affection and a gimlet eye, about a young, earnest textbook salesman (territory: Oklahoma and Texas), George Brush, who doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, and doesn't believe in unmarried sex, and who blunders into one ludicrous situation after another through his honesty and naïveté.
But he was incapable of physical involvement; his affection for one friend of that era would be expressed through "long, earnest, fully clothed embraces, chaste kisses and florid talk of the Hellenistic ideal of friendship".
There was earnest introspection too: from Mr. Varela, whose gentle ballad "Habáname" ("Havana Me") mingled sadness with affection for his city, and from Mr. Torrens, who called borders humanity's "most selfish invention" before singing "Ni de Aquí ni de Allá" ("Neither From Here Nor There").
Few political observers expect those warm and fuzzy feelings of mutual affection to last beyond the presidential election, when the gubernatorial campaign begins in earnest.
The affection and insight in David Herskovits's laid-back production, which is somehow equally goofy and earnest, creep up on and ultimately disarms you (1 40).
