One morning we attended a Scent Seminar at Revlon, sitting at a conference table sniffing strips of perfumed paper, then describing what we smelled — sometimes earnestly, sometimes not.
Walk into a class at Shimer — with students talking earnestly, sometimes painfully, about the meaning of a classic — and you might think you had stumbled into a group therapy session for young literati.
By Stephanie Burt July 16, 2014 The first published works by the thirty-five-year-old writer and artist Ariel Schrag were earnestly, painfully, sometimes astonishingly honest autobiographical comics, begun in ninth grade, self-published by tenth grade, and picked up (while Schrag was in eleventh grade) by the prestigious indie publisher Slave Labor Graphics.
At its centre is Janusz, played earnestly though also sometimes with a slightly flavourless efficiency, by the 29-year-old British actor Jim Sturgess; he is a Pole whose young wife is tortured by the Soviets into denouncing him as a spy.
Mr. Bangalter talks earnestly and often loftily in fluent English, sometimes breaking off to consult with his partner in French.
Magazine articles have described the artist's efforts, sometimes a bit dismissively, as "earnestly naïve" or as directing "her distrust toward her own community".
Contagion hangs together perfectly well as a movie, though sometimes it looks like a mosaic of earnestly tense mini-dramas represented by the ensemble cast: Soderbergh is much less strong on showing the fear and horror of ordinary people, and the massive sense of loss.
Sometimes they do more poetic things like look earnestly into each other's eyes and say what they see therein.
In his verbiage, Woodson sometimes assumes Brown's philosopher-coach persona, speaking earnestly of "playing the right way" and the need to "teach" his players.
But while Planet COP is obsessively, earnestly devoted to a global agreement on climate change – it sometimes seems less weird than Planet Oz. Malcolm Turnbull joined 150 world leaders on Monday urging a Paris deal that locks in current national greenhouse gas-reducing commitments and then rachets them up every five years.
They're sometimes accused of being spoiled consumers, but my impression is that they are earnestly anxious about whether they're getting their money's worth; after all, it is a lot of money, and they are entering a precarious and unequal economy.
