But in person Warpaint are charmingly earnest, their intelligence and humour and chemistry quite evident.
Earnest said the intelligence community did not detect any increase in malicious Russian cyber-activity on election day that interfered with the ability of people to cast ballots and have them counted accurately.
Obama's speech struck me as the sincere product of serious deliberations, an earnest attempt to apply his formidable intelligence to one of the most daunting Rubik's Cubes of foreign policy America has ever known.
The issue over how to beef up intelligence is likely to begin in earnest over the next few weeks, when Congress votes on a bill to finance the Justice Department and grapples with military spending.
"The president's got a lot of confidence that the vast majority of people who serve this country in the national security arena, particularly our professionals in the intelligence community, are genuine American patriots," Mr. Earnest said.
Neville's approach to immersive social photography might be dismissed as merely earnest were the images not so compelling full of tenderness, intelligence, spontaneity, and all manner of illuminating details.
Earnest said the compound was targeted based on "near-certain" intelligence that indicated it was being frequented by at least one al-Qaida leader, and that no civilians were in the area.
Neville's approach to immersive social photography might be dismissed as merely earnest were the images not so compelling — full of tenderness, intelligence, spontaneity, and all manner of illuminating details.
