Like him, they are highly polished and hyper-scripted, earnest, and efficient, and they tell the story of a man who sees himself as a Captain Turnaround, prepared to pull off his biggest rescue operation yet.
Now, in his pressed Polo shirts and hair that looks as if he just walked out of Supercuts, Mr. Maddox has emerged as an efficient, earnest, unwavering hero of the storm, praised by federal officials and tornado victims alike.
SERVICE: Earnest, obliging and reasonably efficient.
"He was as clear in his judgment and as earnest in his convictions as he was efficient and indomitable in the performance of his duties and the execution of his designs.
Some time ago, when we proposed the creation of an "energy ring" among South American countries, we did so in an earnest desire for integration, with each country contributing a variety of resources for efficient use by all.
While applications developers are becoming more energy conscious, it's only in the past couple of years that work has begun in earnest by companies like Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and IBM to make the operating system and middleware significantly more efficient.
These days the man who brought business aviation to Luton in earnest back in the day, thinks there is a much better "time, space and fuel efficient" option in town for private flights – namely his new FBO offering at London Southend Airport.
"She is an open, earnest, and undisguised secessionist, and talks secession on all practicable occasions… informant considers her more efficient in carrying news to the rebels of our operations than any three men in the valley".
If the proceedings get too earnest for you, skip forward to "Hallelujah," which combines Handel and Sunset Strip-metal in one slick, efficient mash.
In Washington, this is always a time of innocent hope, when earnest budgeteers look for unnecessary programs to ax so they can prove to the country that government is efficient.
