5.56pm GMT Good evening… … And welcome, as England's warm-up tour of the Caribbean begins in earnest, if warm-up tours can ever really be deemed to have an "earnest" element.
I wonder if there isn't a worry that it must have pissed off a few of the more over-earnest elements of the amateur performance crew, who might think it's a bit of a dig? "I'm not so sure if anyone who's seen her has taken offence in that way," says McLeod.
The director, Julius Onah — this is his first big-budget feature — brings earnest calm to the melodramatic elements and wry restraint to the comedic ones.
But there's another equally strong element, favoring a more earnest production that faithfully replays a few moments from late in King's life, including excerpts from speeches, nicely spoken by Rodney Gardiner.
Corning started making lasers in earnest in the late 1990s as an element of its fiber-optic telecom business.
Despite the absurd sci-fi element, it's an earnest story about very real emotions and represents the best of what sci-fi fantasy has to offer.
Her high-necked sweater and earnest school spirit were a de facto element of her status as a goody two-shoes "lousy with virginity".
As we watch Jenny (Carey Mulligan) swoon over her raincoated admirer David Peter Sarsgaardd), her very attraction to him seems the period element, while she coolly snubs her earnest schoolmate Graham Matthew Beardd).
He looked to be in his element as he mocked the two earnest young men who moderated the chat, flashing the briefest sign of anger when one of them stepped on a punch line.
Of course, earnest-tending picture also lacks gang-related story elements and voguish teen slang, and is hampered by insufficient comedy, making this a significant departure from the proven British-urban-hit formula.
