There is overwhelming disbelief now that all of Fifa's Exco members based their votes on the merits of such bids, but it is important to remember how earnestly England's Football Association spent £21m, some of it public money, lobbying for the 2018 tournament.
And it's, wow! Do I remember!" The earnestly crafted line drawings channel Egon Schiele's delicate detail and Alex Katz's eye for style.
As the title suggests, the 23-track album is, more or less, a concept album about her dead animals, featuring The Floyd Song (Sunrise), named after her beloved dog, and Pablow the Blowfish, a heartfelt paean to her dead blowfish ("But watching my friends eat my friends ruined my appetite" she remembers earnestly of one fateful night of sushi).
The guy looks at you so directly, speaks so earnestly, that it is hard to remember that he is directly responsible for the Knicks' dismal start.
"Remember," he said to them earnestly, "you're going to be doctors.
You will remember when one of your mates earnestly carved the words "gin and tea cups" into their arm with a Stanley knife from the art department.
She tried, very earnestly, with only a hint of self-pity, to remember the last time she'd heard the words "I love you".
"I remember watching you in Pakistan," Mr. Akhtar said earnestly to Mr. Close, a tall, proper-looking English cricketer of great renown, who on Saturday was inducted into the Cricket Hall of Fame here.
So when Mum makes what I take to be the entirely rhetorical statement of "I don't know why but I can't remember a thing these days," they always rather earnestly tell her she's suffering from dementia.
My older sister had a hi-fi in her room and I remember outstaying my welcome, singing along a little too earnestly for an 11-year-old.
The publishers earnestly encourage children to find their pets at a shelter and to remember that "committing to caring for a pet as a cherished, not captive, companion, is a big decision".
