Mr. Lieberman arrived at the school to thunderous applause, smiled proudly as students told him of the school's success and spoke earnestly of the need for more federal money to replace a start-up grant that ends this year.
He was an adamant defender of Christian civilization and earnestly advocated the need for Christian ethics in a democratic society.
I say it lightly, with humor at times and at other times, far more earnestly, when I need to remind myself, in the face of the daily indignities of life in prison and the larger destructive forces in our world, to focus on our common humanity, rather than resorting to anger and judgment against others.
But the closest he's ever gotten to fantasy is probably writing From Dusk Till Dawn, and Tarantino's way too self-conscious a director to tackle something like Frodo and Sam's friendship as earnestly as it needs to be.
But Patrick is so earnestly explicit about his need for healing that all possibility of satire, let alone real menace, dissolves in a sticky puddle of American psychobabble.
As Pepe graduated from an esoteric joke to a virtue signal being shared by political figureheads and foreign states, so too did our need to earnestly catalog and contextualize memes as the cultural and political artifacts they truly are.
A cheerful middle-aged man arrived; Mr. Nelson found himself earnestly explaining that he needed money to make a crucial call.
It was a sense that our administration is very serious about action, and earnestly believes in what needs to come out of these next two weeks.
Nobody who has aspirations of leading the Green Party to victory writes a book called I'm Only Being Honest... in which he earnestly wonders whether the UK needs a "booze report" to investigate how much benefits claimants spend on alcohol.
All these issues need to be addressed earnestly.
