And what could be funnier than watching said virgin earnestly study each product's list of features for water resistance, battery life, noise factor, shape, size and heft?
The Chinese government said it would "earnestly study" Pope John Paul II's plea this week for diplomatic ties but gave no indication of a breakthrough, repeating conditions that have long bedeviled relations.
It was wonderful: real freedom fighters earnestly studying Sylvester Stallone to see how it's done: from Hanoi to Sri Lanka via Hollywood; an entire civil war – tens of thousands killed, maimed and wounded – inspired by imported Hollywood heroics.
He knows that few people can claim his expertise: while countless writers of novels, movies and television series have wantonly plumbed the mystique of the Mafia, he has actually, honestly and earnestly studied it.
I observed rapt crowds of young German women earnestly studying films about racial unrest in the British Midlands and video testimonials by a Lebanese man who recounts his fears and (of all things) sexual impulses while being held hostage in Beirut along with several Americans in 1985.
For much of his adult life, Gandhi earnestly studied the religions of the world.
Many atheists and agnostics come to their disbelief only after earnestly studying religion and thoughtfully dialoging with believers.
After writing two works on Roman civil law (1847 and 1848), he traveled to Italy and Greece and began earnestly to study the symbolism of ancient tombs, thereby gaining significant insights into early forms of human life, law, and religion.
The absolute worst, the gassiest, most morally and aesthetically bankrupt, the most earnestly and emptily studied and worshipped . . .
She, Vandeleur Lee, and his sister Lucy, provided him with a pound a week while he frequented public libraries and the British Museum reading room where he studied earnestly and began writing novels.
