Like the magazine, their work is earnest, professional and instructive, and it provides vivid glimpses of other cultures.
Those of us who covered Cox as a hobbling third baseman with the Yankees, circa 1968-69, felt he was an earnest professional who did not project the seething ambition of Gene Mauch or the bantam-rooster strut of Earl Weaver.
Couldn't this father, too, be a naturalist?) Upon rereading, however, one is struck by the stories' integrity — and how different these girls and women are from who they were or who they may later become: ambitious adolescent; earnest professional; scarlet woman; beleaguered second wife.
There is a video diary being made by one soldier who hopes to get into film school, also an earnest professional documentary made by imaginary French film-makers, complete with French subtitles; there is CCTV footage, fictional Arab TV, blogs, and gruesome footage of soldiers being killed and uploaded to al-Qaida-style websites.
Patty oversaw the sale of the house, at an unhappy price, to an earnest black professional couple with three-year-old twins.
Rodriguez's work is earnest and professional, full of the angles and lighting tricks that make people seem worthy of the album covers and magazine spreads he'd been commissioned to shoot.
For people who want to believe there is at least some integrity to the NFL investigative process, they should hope that Friel, in the role of Roberts's direct supervisor, had an earnest disagreement in professional judgment about the evidence against Elliott ― not that she faced pressure from higher-ups to reach a different conclusion from Roberts.
And while Democrats speak in soothing tones about allowing elections professionals and earnest volunteers to proceed in uninterrupted peace, Republicans continue dire warnings of mischief and cover-ups.
It was not until the 1940s that efforts began in earnest to form a professional golf organization for women.
In the '70s and early '80s, on the " Today" show, Tom Brokaw and Jane Pauley embodied the new era of two-career households, surrogate parents -- warm, professional and earnest, breaking a path.
