On Tuesday night, the Knicks officially declined to match a contract offer for Lin made by the Houston Rockets, bringing an abrupt end to Linsanity, and dealing another psychic blow to fans who'd seen in Lin's earnest up-tempo play and youthful exuberance the potential end to their team's decade of futility and disrepute.
Along my impromptu tour of what ultimately feels like the whole of London, I begin trying to conquer gyms in earnest, bumping up against some truly powered-up Pokémon trainers.
The affection and insight in David Herskovits's laid-back production, which is somehow equally goofy and earnest, creep up on and ultimately disarms you (1 40).
But the affection and insight in Mr. Herskovits's laid-back interpretation, which is somehow equally goofy and earnest, creep up on and ultimately disarm you.
After a few moments of fraught silence, and at the encouraging of the jolly Ms. Sprinkle and the earnest Ms. Stephens, up came the shirts and on went the show.
The premise of the show is that Nathan Fielder young, awkward, earnest, clueless comes up with absurdly stupid ideas for struggling small businesses, and then goes to extraordinary lengths to complete them.
There is a neurotic edge to the way many secularists talk about the awkward, rather earnest, just-up-from-the-country sort of people who make up most of Mr Erbakan's following.This may be because, when you look at it, the Ataturk definition of secularism is not quite what most other westerners mean by the word.
It wasn't an event organised by some earnest grown-up intent on teaching the virtues of sound budgeting.
Intriguingly, though, where most listeners hear an earnest, growing-up ballad, Forchhammer and his band hear "ghetto pop".
Watching the Sunday politics shows on the US networks, and reading the long, earnest write-ups in the newspapers, just confirms that nobody has a clue what the result will be (and certainly not British journalists who have flown in a few days beforehand).
One CNN producer came in on the day of Zucker's appointment, took a look at his hour's earnest line-up of stories and said, throwing it out: "Is this really how we want to begin the age of Zucker?" Here's another backhander from a Zucker minion: "He is intellectually honest about his lack of intellectual curiosity".
