These are the elbows that most need to be thrown, by a President, by earnest representatives and by the public, for to not do so is to forfeit the game.
The meeting helped persuade their various representatives to negotiate in earnest, and on February 20th Mayweather posted online a picture of a signed contract, along with an announcement: What the world has been waiting for has arrived.
"The prime minister has expressed his very earnest commitment to meet with the representatives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander peoples as soon as possible," a spokesman for the prime minister told Guardian Australia.
It's crucial to what F.R. Leavis called the novel's "representative comprehensiveness" that although Anna was in earnest when she renounced him and although Vronsky was in earnest when he shot himself, their high-flown feelings don't survive the passage of time and the social and psychological pressures of daily life.
The push for a broad overhaul of the federal tax code will begin in earnest next week with a series of meetings between Representative Dave Camp, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and the Republican rank-and-file.
The proposal establishes a right flank for the coming debate over the benefits program, which is expected to begin in earnest on Tuesday when the House Budget Committee, led by Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, unveils the Republicans' plan.
Despite the earnest notes sounded by visiting political candidates (President Obama and Representative Paul Ryan showed up on Monday), it is a vast, sweet, savory, shameless wonderland that operates on its own terms for 11 days each August.
The National Trust may take it over: earnest Nicholas le Prevost is utterly persuasive as a Trust representative, giddy with pleasure at decaying delights, which include chamber pots full of ancient celebrity wee.
Quoting with approval Noël Coward's opinion of Las Vegas tourists -- earnest morons flinging their money down the drain" -- is representative of their contempt for a place where ordinary people come to feel, for a weekend, like big shots.
Mr. Damon plays Steve Butler, a blithely confident representative of the drilling company; Mr. Krasinski plays Dustin Noble, an earnest environmental activist with a nasty edge.
