His name, like a dirty word, is never spoken – although Gwendolen and Cecily escape The Importance of Being Earnest to drop in on Stoppard's play.
As surely as Earnest Byner dropped the football, John Elway marched 98 yards for a last-second touchdown, and Michael Jordan sank the acrobatic jumper from the foul line -- all events that crushed the city's hopes of winning a championship in the 1980's -- the Ping-Pong balls would bounce funny at the 2003 draft lottery, sending LeBron James to Denver, or to Detroit, or to Toronto.
He suspects that prices will start dropping in earnest after the election, once whichever party is in control begins to implement public spending cuts, and when the Bank of England base rate starts to rise again.
"I'm putting everything I've got on the line for religion," she tells him, before giving a hilariously earnest rundown of the dropping-out, dead-end jobs and man trouble that brought here there.
Former Voice staffer Rosie Gray wrote a piece for Buzzfeed thatsuffers from historical laziness and business naïveté, beginning with the wrongheaded notion that the Voice's "slide began in earnest" when the paper dropped its $1 cover price and went free.
Earnest's round is just another drop in what has been an incredibly large bucket of investment for fintech companies.
Glover stars as Earnest "Earn" Marks, an Ivy-league drop out turned credit card sales man, who convinces his cousin Alfred Paper Boi Miles Brian Tyree Henrynry) to let him manage his burgeoning rap career.
Perhaps only a very earnest liberal could play a name-dropping, millionaire harpy with such dedication, but Fonda is so strenuous that she's almost unwatchable.
If the question is treated as a non sequitur, you need to drop the smile and look earnest with a hint of stupidity.
No doubt that would drop if industrial production began in earnest, but in the meantime each Filippone heart could need as much as $6m-worth of fuel.
No, he stayed hydrated, swerved the molly and were primed to drop this first thing Monday morning: an earnest, good-humored YouTube comment full of kudos and exclamation marks.
