The atmosphere tonight is a little like a consciousness-raising session -- there's an earnest aura of learning together and sustaining one another in a benighted world.
The general atmosphere stays oppressively earnest.
This time, though, the atmosphere was serious, earnest and practical — except at the beginning, when the Manhattan borough president, Scott M. Stringer, welcomed the students.
The atmosphere on board was earnest, almost celebratory, in part from the prospect of discovery that comes with a maiden voyage, and in part from the anticipation of a stylish homecoming.
Others made earnest pleas for action against global warming, and the atmosphere was mostly calm until a group of masked anarchists clad in black arrived on the scene.
But the atmosphere is guardedly elegant, faintly precious and a bit earnest.
"The Avenging Conscience" is surprisingly effective, despite the yawning pit that separates Poe's morbid, decadent sensibility from Griffith's earnest humanism, because Griffith doesn't even try to recreate the Gothic atmosphere of "The Tell-Tale Heart".
Against the metaphors prevailing in the New Critical atmosphere of the nineteen-fifties, when he started writing in earnest — the Well Wrought Urns and the Verbal Icons — Bukowski posed his own, entirely characteristic image for writing: "it has to come out like hot turds the morning after a good beer drunk".
But still, obtaining a global picture is not easy - and to make things worse, observations have begun in earnest during the very period in which human activities are changing the atmosphere's aerosol load.
Staging, costumes and set design are all made to appear to be the "earnest work of schoolteachers and supportive parents trying to provide a colorful and cheery atmosphere on a small budget".
