Expect earnest, hard-working waiters, but not silken, sophisticated service.
Mr. Duff has not begun marketing in earnest and does not expect to start investing until early 2012, according to people who have been briefed on his plans.
"This generation has yet to find its Bobby Kennedy, Ms. Owenss, 33, said with the earnest idealism one would expect from a Capitol Hill intern.
Sorensen spoke informally at every Welliver dinner, and he was always surprisingly funny — surprising, because funny is not what you expect from earnest, seemingly wooden, Midwestern progressives with horn-rimmed glasses and dorky haircuts.
As famous singers go, King has always seemed exceedingly nice — more Janis Ian than Janis Joplin — and her book's humble granola-and-chardonnay prose is about as earnest as you'd expect from the songwriter behind "You've Got a Friend".
Gawped at daily by busloads of onlookers monks, black-clad teenagers, turbaned villagers, earnest foreigners the men can expect to pass much of the rest of their lives in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, a hybrid local and United Nations creation that sits just outside the capital, Phnom Penh.The tribunal has an impossible job.
The people who read my liveblog expecting earnest analysis or a basic recapping of what was literally said.
This isn't the kind of aside you expect from the earnest, inscrutable Marling.
But he also welcomes the occasional dose of rhythmic choppiness, along with its polar opposite: "Someone" sounds like the kind of earnest, unctuous ballad one might expect from Usher.
And the commission on long-term infrastructure decision-making does not sound like a conventional, opposition headline-grabbing wheeze, but rather the kind of earnest, mature announcement you would expect to read in a Treasury press release.
Among Washington think tanks, we know what to expect from the Brookings Institution: earnest, slightly left-of-center analysis of major issues.
