At 4 a.m., he was sitting with eight nurses at a cancer center in Tampa, earnestly talking health care.
Or we respond earnestly, talking about and picturing these lies, if only to refute them, and, in so doing, we somehow manage to debase ourselves in the process.
The image of one woman earnestly talking to another, for example, was captioned: "Don't be silly/ You're not ugly/ You're not ugly/ You're not ugly at all/ You're being silly".
And that is what you mostly see over the last hour of this film: two middle-aged men fighting through their neuroses and confusion, earnestly talking about intimacy and emotional betrayal and how they feel about each other.
Lesser, coming down with a cold, was sitting in Cork, the wine bar, a few months ago, nursing a tumbler of juice (a "virgin orange juice," he told the bartender, earnestly) and talking about an average day in the White House.
Think about it: ringtones, as abstract and quaint as they may seem now, were a way of branding one's self before we earnestly started talking about our personal brands.
Managing this feat while stockmarket indices plummet and sober economists talk earnestly of meltdown is even more impressive.
Rushing between lessons with their old-fashioned files, some boys talk earnestly about their essays and marks.
Here, grown men talk earnestly about dog poo: "Feed your dog this and it will live longer, have a great coat, good teeth and great energy," says Davies.
Talk, the magazine famous for still believing that something called synergy exists, excels at putting together events at which e-commerce tycoons talk earnestly with hip-hop producers.
