Instead, they chose to honor Hunt for a role in which she earnestly helps a racist find love and show that he's not such a bad guy after all.
Then, say, "Excuse me?" and very earnestly ask for help.
As it turns out, Michael Legge's earnestly effeminate Stephen helps save Shank, who has unwisely invested in a rival company, from financial disaster and debtor's prison.
I ask one of them to take our picture, and while he sizes up the frame — "Portrait or landscape?" he asks, earnestly — I can't help but blurt out, "This guy right here coached Frank Ntilikina when he was a kid!" They besiege Abdel with questions about how Frank is going to help the Knicks, which Frank interprets to be questions about how Frank will improve himself.
It will be far harder to argue this, now that someone has pumped four bullets into a journalist who earnestly thought that he could help Russia make it by writing the truth about its dark underside.
Yet for all the stereotypes it exposes then skewers, there are others peddled so earnestly that the reader can't help but wonder at Kwan's agenda.
After the officials left the conference room, Shakira said earnestly, "My work as an artist helps me get close to people that have an enormous influence on the lives and destinies of so many, like the president of my country, so I can discuss things that are far more important than myself".
It helps that while Cage talks so earnestly about meaning and art he finds himself endearingly, irresistibly drawn to hokey sci-fi plotting.
I earnestly ask you to do all you can to help maintain the superb research at the Koch Institute at its maximum level".
Jane begs for help from a resentful loner called Dan Frost, earnestly played by Edgerton, a man with whom she has some history.
