Here they were made by a murder victim's brother and were plainly earnest, whether true or not.
"The Notebook" is pretty stupid, but you get the feeling that the real Ryan Gosling, earnest and true, is present in it to a degree that Gosling felt both uncomfortable with and excited by, and the part continues to define him.
Cox's character was the earnest, genuine Tristan, who transforms from boy to man on his quest for true love.
The two have taken the challenge in earnest, seeking a true collaboration, blurring and even concealing differences in style and technique.
The fact that he had adopted it, she wrote – even though she herself had abandoned that name on her marriage, made him "my Son at last – in true Earnest; my Son by Adoption, inserted into the Pedigree of my Descent".
Taylor Swift released "Reputation," her sixth record, which at first seemed like a dopey collection of pop songs about how tired she is of being famous but turned out to be an earnest ode to true love and all its redemptive thrills.
While $2,000 patchwork band collar shirts and $7,000 coats made from handsomely aged Japanese fabrics mostly dwell in the aspirational rather than accessible realm of fashion, Goldstein's earnest approach and true passion for clothes is evident in his products.
He should be earnest and truthful.
Even the names of the new generation of denim brands indicate how seriously they take themselves: Citizens of Humanity, 7 for All Mankind, True Religion, Earnest Sewn, 18th Amendment.
And he runs through a litany of brands, both past and present, including Levi's, Lee, Wrangler, Landlubber, Jordache, Fiorucci, Sergio Valente, Guess, Diesel, Seven for All Mankind, Citizens of Humanity, True Religion, Earnest Sewn, Sacred Blue and Paper Denim & Cloth: labels whose very names conjure different eras and mindsets.
