He was his own man, liberal in his instincts, serious-minded, earnest, level-headed.
He had called it a "trivial comedy for serious people," and on one level "Earnest" is a gossamer-light farce.
I was in no way prepared for this level of earnest schmaltzywaltz when my sugar levels are low and I haven't eaten lunch yet.
But if it was Dick's gift to find, again and again, these extended hyperbolic parallels, it was his genius to take them to a level of earnest madness that makes satire touch the edge of the sublime.
The account is characterized by the extreme consciousness of the protagonists: the inarticulate struggles of earlier generations are now succeeded at the verbal level by earnest or bitter debate.
I Went Too Far's only downside is that I haven't felt anything in six years, so I can't truly relate to something with this level of earnest emotion, let alone the kind that reduces someone to sadface acting to camera in a music video.
After the election of Barack Obama in 2008, efforts began in earnest on the state level to roll back the Voting Rights Act, enshrined into law in 1965.
Awareness of trans issues is expanding, and we deserve expansive news sources, too -- a news media that opens to a new level of earnest sensitivity and accountability for information they provide about trans/genderqueer people, if only for those teen queers looking for positive, accurate reflections of themselves in the world.
It's time to be serious, earnest and, above all, level-headed".
Hip-hop luminaries from Sean (Diddy) Combs to Russell Simmons and Jennifer Lopez are regular customers, but the place is mostly full of mid-level garmentos — earnest men and women, not as well dressed as one might expect, who take their business meetings here.
