Oh used her opening monologue with Samberg to earnestly acknowledge the importance of representation, saying she took the hosting gig as a way of showing viewers her "face of change".
Now, he is the subject either of ridicule, or a gentle, considered criticism that earnestly and tacitly acknowledges his decency, sympathising with the speed and intensity of his fall – which in some ways, is even worse.
The Times praised the libretto: "It should... be acknowledged that Mr. Gilbert has earnestly endeavoured to leave familiar grooves and rise to higher things".
To say that the Narnia stories "captivated the imagination of a generation", to earnestly affirm that The Waste Land is "still widely acknowledged as one of the finest and most discussed poems of the 20th century" or that Ulysses showed "radical literary innovation" is not exactly high-wattage stuff.
The sales clerks nodded earnestly when I mentioned number switching, but when pressed for details, they acknowledged that they wouldn't really know much about it until "the memos" arrived on Monday.
Today Cardinal Law acknowledged the impact on the fund-raising effort, and said, "it is for that reason that I make this appeal so earnestly to you to be heroically generous this year for the Cardinal's Appeal".
When asked about his agenda, his advisers speak earnestly and almost exclusively about reviving the Egyptian economy, and they acknowledge that requires tranquil borders.
Williams acknowledges this (PHD: 83): "Hare has always wanted, and earnestly wanted, moral philosophy to have an effect, to make a difference.
"CPD cannot begin to build trust, repair what is broken and tattered unless --from the top leadership on down -- it faces these hard truths, acknowledges what it has done at the individual and institutional levels and earnestly reaches out with respect.
I think he is an earnestly liberal, politically correct guy who genuinely believes in the stated aims of feminism, at least as far as equality goes, but I think he also harbors a good deal of reflexive sexism, some of which he is unaware of and some of which he acknowledges to himself but instinctively refrains from revealing to others.
