At the end of the album he lifts his sights from romance for an earnest change-the-world song: "If You're Out There," the song he introduced at this year's Democratic convention.
In Andrew Garfield, the film has a star who is quite sympathetic to that story, and to the earnest change through which the character goes through.
There's the time, during a touring production of "The Importance of Being Earnest," an actor changed the clocks backstage, so another actor thought he'd missed his cue.
Commission members said that the panel was in the middle of deliberations about the structure of the narrative portion of the report and that it had not begun to debate in earnest recommendations for change in the nation's intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
To no one head of state, I'll borrow from Bogart, because if there is no earnest and actionable change, there will certainly be regret, "'Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.'".
After a season in which they deteriorated from Super Bowl champions to a perplexing, uneven team unable to reach the playoffs, the Giants began making changes in earnest Wednesday with the release of running back Ahmad Bradshaw and defensive tackle Chris Canty.
The party also received a commitment to re-start the Middle East peace talks in earnest, and support for changes to the so-called Tal Law, which allows ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students to defer military conscription.
Until Pyongyang decides to change in earnest, progress is likely to be limited.
IF THE world is to tackle the problem of climate change in earnest, "clean coal" has to become more than just an amusing oxymoron.
CB radio was associated primarily with truck drivers, but Doyon and others used it to form the sort of virtual community that later appeared on the Internet, with self-selected nicknames, inside jokes, and an earnest desire to effect change.
