He said he gets four hours of sleep on a good night, and when asked about his hobbies, he wryly observed, "I come to work a lot," before adding, more earnestly, "I like being a lawyer".
The unabashedly trivial -- like the San Francisco heiress Louise Arner Boyd, who in the 1920's cruised the Arctic hunting polar bears and gobbling tins of caviar -- are balanced by the earnestly industrious, like Lady Franklin, who campaigned tirelessly on behalf of her dead husband, Sir John, to ensure that he was credited with discovering a Northwest Passage.
And when he sings, earnestly crooning like Mel Tormé when he begins a verse, then caustically (and a little comically) muttering like Lou Reed to end it, he does so through a filter that distorts his voice electronically, allusively -- it's the voice pleading through the intercom from the apartment vestibule, the voice leaving a message on the cell at 4 a.m.
So my response to the girls in rich countries who earnestly believe, like French supermodel/ex-first lady Carla Bruni, that their generation "doesn't need feminism" is simply: How very wonderful for you.
Under his guidance and direction, the series found a willingness to just let itself be what it is: a series of heists with secret agents stealing codes or lists, using improbable masks, with Simon Pegg making anxious quips, Ving Rhames being kinda sassy, and very serious guys like Alec Baldwin earnestly delivering lines like "Ethan Hunt is the living manifestation of destiny".
It lends a sort of Stepford devotion to the more earnestly romantic songs, like "Religion" and "Music To Watch Boys By", while prickles of danger are raised by the darker emotions: all it takes, in the separation ode "The Blackest Day", is an offhand mention of a gun to spark the suspicion that, despite the bland delivery, this is an obsession teetering on the edge of either suicide or homicide.
In August, in a squat, brown office complex near the Albany airport, 50 entrepreneurs and bankers sat on overstuffed couches, earnestly discussing words like "value" and "ethics".
She also regularly and earnestly uses words like "hoagie," which we think pretty much speaks for itself.
Also, she made the fucking news report, in which she refers to the incident multiple times as "an attack," speaks to a "victim service coordinator", and, completely earnestly, says things like, "The irony of this attack?
