It took a young-at-heart French director in his mid-thirties, Jacques Rozier, to capture, in his first feature, "Adieu Philippine" (which he shot in 1960), the severe drama and the earnest games contained in the exuberance — nowhere more than in this thrilling, exquisite dance sequence.
The two women, wearing short dresses, were largely cast as eager attendants — they did most of the work in steering the audience members — though they were allowed to join some of the more earnest games of the four men, on whom Mr. Moss placed most of his focus.
There's another man in a buggy waiting for Janie, and another unhappy marriage — this time to a bully who won't let her join in the dazzling talk, the wildly spiralling stories, the earnest games of an Eatonville that Hurston raises up now like a darktown Camelot.
There is a rush to the buffet, followed by a polite but earnest game of musical chairs.
WASHINGTON — Three times so far this year, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the regional war-fighting commanders have assembled at a military base south of the capital, where a giant map of the world, larger than a basketball court, was laid out on the ground, giving the sessions an appearance of a lethally earnest game of Risk.
As the ruggedly earnest war games play out, their splendid East Coast rural setting of rocks and forest, grasslands and a gentle river, is crudely sexualized as well.
They had struggled against a team starting a rookie quarterback, that had lost its dynamic running back in the first half, that threatened to derail the Jets' season before it even started in earnest, with games looming against the powerful 49ers and Texans.
Mr. Simont began illustrating children's books in the late 1930s, and became known for his ability to adapt that style to a vast array of subjects, from the sprightly fauna of "The Happy Day," by Ruth Krauss (1949), to the deadly earnest Brooklyn Dodger games in Bette Bao Lord's "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" (1984), about a Chinese girl's adjustment to postwar American life.
And now, in deadly earnest, the game is on.
First Jimmy Fallon, all earnest admiration, game-nights and guitar, took over "The Tonight Show," managing to make Jay Leno look stern by comparison.
Part of Human Revolution's charm was how decidedly unmodern it was, a janky but earnest cyberpunk game that worshiped at Deus Ex's feet perhaps to a fault.
