The narrator earnestly questions her ability to understand the "inexplicable presence" of the past, especially when the simplest events seem like "the most complicated puzzles".
But while the waiters roasted the project, a group of high school art students (invited to the site by Mr. Baker's company) earnestly questioned Mr. Maltz about his artistic intentions.
But really, Apple probably could have said "Er, yeah, you made a mini-game out of people killing themselves" and few would have earnestly questioned its banishment.
Perhaps that is reason enough to consider earnestly the question at the heart of those bets: How, exactly, could Floyd Mayweather lose?
Wearing jeans and collared shirts, he often stood at the center of a circle of metal folding chairs with his hands on his hips, his head tilted slightly as he listened earnestly to questions.
Editors there, like those in most newsrooms, struggle earnestly with questions of racial sensitivity.
We cannot trust the Congress to legislate earnestly on questions of race, Mr Scalia implied, because senators and representatives feel bound to uphold "racial entitlements" that their forebears have enacted.
Mr. Bayh earnestly dodged the question for a moment, before finally responding: "Is this a little bit like David and Goliath?
But there's also much here to interest readers of the contemporary literary novel, a genre that is clearly a preoccupation of Harbach's: he is a co-editor of the literary magazine n+1, which, through various symposia in recent years, has been earnestly posing the question What is the state of American fiction?
Why on earth did we have children?" This was a serious question, earnestly pursued as the evening unfolded.
"The investigative team conducted its work in a fair manner and the president-elect answered the questions earnestly and sincerely," said Kim Hak-geun, a special prosecutor, during a news briefing.
