Bill Gaudelli: Promoting earnest dialog, engaged listening and empathic opportunities, mainly in schools but also through community-based organizations, are needed to help people see that otherness is not a fundamental threat but a core advantage of being in the US, one that contributes to a stronger society.
"Promoting earnest dialog, engaged listening and empathic opportunities, mainly in schools but also through community-based organizations, are needed to help people see that otherness is not a fundamental threat but a core advantage of being in the US, one that contributes to a stronger society".
Corbyn, who crowdsourced questions from the public, gave a performance in keeping with his main personality traits – gauche, earnest, direct and engaging.
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.
In affairs of state, he was more honest, engaged, earnest and open-minded than administrations before or since.
He snaps at everyone in sight; avoids eye contact for fear of engaging in another earnest chat; looks like a train wreck and as if he might cry at any given moment; and, most upsettingly, his feet smell.
The Times' Kenneth Turan wrote of the movie: "Disorganized but engaging, full of visual pyrotechnics and earnest emotion, it is diverting, if not necessarily convincing".
Hello, every early autumn I sit on my porch and observe squirrels engaged in earnest gathering and storing.
Charles Cooper, the lead lawyer for supporters of the ban, began by saying that Californians were engaged "an earnest and profound debate" about marriage before passing Proposition 8 with 52 percent of the vote in 2008.
