What struck me as I listened to the mayors' earnest conversations was how infrequently the public gets to hear the nitty gritty of serious public policy issues.
Ornamented with passages from Racine and long, earnest conversations at restaurant tables, Emmanuel Bourdieu's "Poison Friends" is atmospherically and unmistakably French.
Danish director Lars von Trier's new film, Nymphomaniac, features a series of earnest conversations about Fibonacci numbers and Bach's polyphonic theory.
People talk extraordinarily quickly and invariably shout; phones are answered every two minutes in the middle of a serious meeting; earnest conversations are interrupted by the arrival of salesmen and even animals.
The football coach, or one of his assistants, will camp on your doorstep, phone you and send you text messages daily, conduct long, earnest conversations with your mom and dad, and arrange for lovely, long-legged coeds to show you around the campus.
Pinter has clearly licensed him to let characters indulge in earnest conversations involving non-sequiturs, the best of them enjoyed by down-and-outs on Hollywood Boulevard (a discussion of how to get by bus to Pomona brings to mind the Bolsover Street dialogue in No Man's Land).
With this month-long residency, The Creators Projects will let Kish take command, from earnest conversations about failure, to how to make a profit from your designs.
But just a few blocks away, at Pace University, perhaps a hundred other occupiers were engaging in earnest conversations at the Left Forum, a conference that grew out of a socialist summit founded in the '60s.
No, this was the start of a glorious new chapter that promised hot, moody French girls, earnest conversations about the 'State of the Novel' and —most importantly— the prospect of gigantic character forming nights out.
The possibilities YoungArts offers for its artists to connect to one another; to engage in earnest conversations with accomplished masters in the field; to develop original works; and to shape the thinking around the future of art-making is more relevant now than ever".
