It is also exceptionally earnest, as is Mr. Malik, and he is sometimes accused of being slightly naïve, preaching good feelings.
Negotiations should start in earnest as soon as possible, probably in Geneva, with a view to agreeing on a ceasefire, a transitional government and an internationally overseen election.
Briton Hadden was as iconoclastic as Luce was earnest, as untamed as Luce was disciplined, as charismatic as Luce was socially inept.
Those negotiations, he said, wouldn't begin in earnest as long as the fiscal-cliff talks were under way.
The story of amateur British climbers who triumph with what appears to be basic equipment holds a continuous appeal, and the process of dismissing past scientific achievements on Everest seems to start in earnest as early as 1953.
He was certainly just as punchably earnest as I remember.
But despite the trappings of celebrity, the couple are as earnest as they are showy.
"I hope you're having fun," he told the audience, as earnest as he can sound.
Meanwhile, John Sessions is enjoyably earnest as Robertson's boss, who dreams of being a screenwriter.
To see him being earnest as an actor, in a 1998 romance, felt wrong, embarrassing somehow.
As a reporter he is dogged and earnest; as a profile writer, crisp and professional.
