"Cane" is deadly earnest, making it kind of funny despite itself.
That his persona as a comic and a storyteller is already so likable and earnest makes it even more confusing.
Early on Wednesday morning, police moved into the Maidan in earnest, making arrests and swinging the occasional club, managing to take back some of the protesters' territory.
Not only because it is not productive, but also because many of these companies, like Acorns, Betterment, Square, Bond Street and Earnest, make financial services easier to understand and engage.
I remember blinking at the screen in disbelief when Earnest Byner made his famous fumble, losing the 1988 American Football Conference championship.
Instead I will focus on their earnest appeal, made more compelling every time a patient asks if I or my colleagues blog, tweet or have a Facebook page.
I don't know whether my earnest appeal made any impression on her; she seemed skeptical of affirmative action during the question-and-answer period that followed.
Observers noted that Dave's earnest brow made a point of going into professional overdrive when that little Scouse firecracker Nadine Dorries (she really loves being called that) started quizzing him about an incinerator in her constituency.
John Walden said that the recent rise of the late November sales event, which only arrived in the UK in earnest last year, made it even more difficult to predict sales for the rest of the year.
Home Retail's chief executive, John Walden, said the recent rise of the late November sales bonanza, which only arrived in the UK in earnest last year, made it particularly difficult to predict how this year would play out.
