Silver hair neatly coiffed and wearing the dark suits that he favors, Mr. Forrester cuts an earnest figure on the campaign trail.
He's a no-nonsense sort of a guy... ...... "Cheerful" someone suggested, tongue-in-cheek, as an alternative description of the earnest figure of the former British head coach.
At the Times, where according to former colleagues she worked as a downtable subeditor, a middle-ranking production role, she was regarded as a loud, friendly and "incredibly earnest" figure whose strong accent occasionally grated and who threw herself into activities such as the paper's annual staff cricket match, at which her "looping dolly drops" were particularly well remembered.
At the start of "Doubt," Father Flynn, the earnest central figure in John Patrick Shanley's play, begins a sermon by asking: "What do you do when you're not sure?" At the play's end, Sister Aloysius, his nemesis, has been reduced to tears, sobbing: "I have such doubts; I have such doubts".
Getting Started By March of 2009 Garrett started working in earnest on figuring out what this iPhone app would look like.
Microsoft happened upon Tirupur as it began trying in earnest to figure out how to generate revenue from the world's second most populous nation.
I always saw myself as more of a Dominic Santini kind of supporting role, so I'll hold out for Earnest Borgnine action figures.
Once the globe-trotting begins in earnest, private planes figure in the story and Langdon calls his publisher to ask for one.
The view of him as an earnest, low-key figure, a Foxy Grandpa forever putting things over on more pretentious types while effectively running the city, was popular in the news columns of the "Times".
The earnest Scandanavian design touches.
With their distended bellies, stick-like arms and legs, and earnest expressions, the naked figures have a whimsical quality, though their anatomy is frankly rendered — something unusual for the period.
