The performers may have been universally known as the Beatles, but in Israel, then still trying earnestly to create a culture buffered from foreign words and influence, they were Hipushiot Haketzev, or the Beat Beetles (like the bugs).
So last month, when Google unveiled in Manhattan its new "artist themes" — colors and patterns created by a range of celebrities, with which to decorate an iGoogle homepage — I earnestly browsed as I have never done at MoMA.
As he is about to become an executive, Homer tries to look for a good secretary, but all the applicants fail due to being seductive young women – until Homer finds a man named Karl, who earnestly persuades Homer to tell himself that he deserves everything he has and is the finest creature God ever created.
Even before the Americans left Pyongyang, someone created an account on Tumblr, the popular social blogging site, called "Eric Schmidt looking at things," that parodied sites (themselves parodies) featuring the country's leaders earnestly inspecting livestock, soldiers or leather insoles.
Earnestly addressing a stunned press corps, America Online aol CEO Steve Case today calmly explained how AOL had acquired Time Warner for $184 billion in stock and overnight created the world's largest information company.
"Our lawsuits, our legal actions, actually create jobs," he said, smiling earnestly.
Because we have a lot of interest in producing theater, we wondered, quite earnestly in the beggining, if it would be possible to create a machine that could write tragedies.
Ike tries to use the credos he so earnestly embraces to bring Sean out of his funk, and Mr. Oldham creates a haunting portrait of a man who has perhaps put too much faith in rote rituals.
The BBC, always earnestly conscious of its public duty, has devoted much time and thought to creating suitable programmes, from "Children's Hour" in the early days of radio to "Blue Peter" on television.
