Rather than the hordes of drunken men I'd been expecting, there were six couples, all earnestly reading the descriptions of nineteenth-century Montmartre brothels with the dedication of history students approaching finals.
But then I remembered my parents, many years ago, earnestly reading (often aloud to each other) and debating similar editorials and felt nostalgia for a time when the electorate had far less media and far fewer opportunities to get political information but were more genuinely politically aware.
I earnestly read and sincerely appreciated Christy Wampole's essay "How to Live Without Irony" (Sunday Review, Nov. 18).
This being the case, it would seem any high school senior who earnestly reads "Real College" most likely isn't going to show up for freshman orientation, smoke PCP and immediately jump out of a two-story window, like Helen Hunt in the 1981 television movie "Angel Dusted".
Better to stick to King coconut juice, or Three Coins Beer, a good local lager, whose earnestly written label reads "When consumed in moderation, Three Coins is an ideal thirst quencher, a mild relaxant or an excellent lubricant for social intercourse".
If you're reading a respectable novel or an earnestly hefty historical biography, you hold it upright, in a proud right-angle to the ground.
Neither actor delivers the most mellifluous iambic pentameter you've ever heard, and nor should they: the lines roll eagerly, earnestly, blushingly off their tongues, like eighth-graders reading and writing poetry for the first time.
Vatican sources said the pope decided the candidate should be "earnestly requested" to resign only late on Saturday, after reading a dossier that had apparently been sent from Warsaw in late December.
But some books that hit most of those marks — like Maria Shriver's "What's Happening to Grandpa?" — struck me as so earnestly well-intended and so lifeless that I couldn't imagine reading it the requisite 30 times in a row to a 6-year-old.
The app lists all the conditions your symptoms may match, so you need to read each one earnestly to see if it describes your situation.
A classmate of mine earnestly explained how he had read a report by Colin Powell about a "privately recorded" phone conversation in which Iraqis were reportedly taped saying "we have the weapons"; this all sounded very dubious.
