This link contains a brief snippet of my talk and includes my earnest words of wisdom and ends with the admonishment: "Want perfect children?
Laid out like a challenging but attractive tract, "On Par" spares us the wiseguy tweaking with wisdom and earnest good humor.
In front of Veronese's "Allegory of Wisdom and Strength," an earnest young woman with long black hair instructed two young men on the significance of the cherub in the lower-right-hand corner.
The previous government accepted the conventional economic wisdom that growth would not resume in earnest until the banks and businesses concerned had sold their near-worthless assets, written off their losses and begun to recapitalise.
According to Chinese officials, there was a debate about the wisdom of the island construction programme when it began in earnest three years ago, a discussion that the hawks won.
The conventional wisdom about Vietnam was that the peace movement began in earnest only when middle-class men were pulled from polite society and dumped into the jungles of Southeast Asia.
We have allowed vitriol to replace earnest debate and we have somehow deluded ourselves into thinking that wealth is wisdom.
"There is so much that has been accomplished over the last six or seven years that President Obama is enormously proud of," Earnest said, "and a large portion of it would not have been possible without the wisdom, counsel and leadership of Vice President Biden".
