What is a human?" That was how his mind worked, with an earnest bent toward the forever debatable.
The tracks build from piano and earnest percussion toward sometimes lavish instrumentation; the saxophonist Kamasi Washington did arrangements for French horn, tuba, flute and bass clarinet.
That's because they did their homework and got things right from the start, which has included successful, earnest marketing toward working people and those who don't look or function like the American cliche of a practitioner.
When I made my first earnest step toward what would eventually turn into changing my career, I was just doing something that filled me up--writing--because I couldn't stand to not do it any longer.
It wasn't until the 1970's, however, that things started in earnest to lurch toward real improvement.
As her fashionable flirtation with Communism slides toward earnest and potentially career-threatening commitment, Blair is summoned to the office of Louis B. Mayer, then the head of MGM, the most powerful studio in Hollywood: L.B. Sit down, sit down, my dear.
(Sinagra) COLIN MELOY AND LAURA VEIRS (Thursday) The sharp-voiced frontman of the Decemberists, Colin Meloy will soon release some of his college band Tarkio's material, the strength of which proves he's always been a master tunesmith inclined toward earnest literary name-checking.
Likewise, the album's more upbeat moments reflect the trend in secular adult alternative toward earnest vocals over whitewashed rock (à la Vertical Horizon).
For good measure, such a regional defense umbrella should work to eventually include Israel if it begins in earnest to work toward a two state solution.
He has no ticket, no credit card, no cellphone and frankly no real purpose, which is ultimately the fatal flaw of "Riding Toward Everywhere," his earnest, diverting and baffling new book about life on the rails.
