It will be far harder to argue this, now that someone has pumped four bullets into a journalist who earnestly thought that he could help Russia make it by writing the truth about its dark underside.
In retrospect, before arriving at Yale, there had been times when I earnestly thought about one day being married and having a family.
Starting the job I earnestly thought a summer spent in Niagara's tourist district would be a fun and easy way to make some cash.
Instead, Antillon earnestly thinks that because other races have commemorative months and holidays, white people should at least get one day to call their own.
My friend listened earnestly and thought it sounded like a great idea.
What, he asked earnestly, did I think the secret of a good party was?I thought it over as I chewed my smoked chicken.
With so much virtue on display and talked about so earnestly, you might think that "Open Range," which opens today nationwide, would be a good movie.
The best example of this was when we were discussing a popular book and she earnestly asked, "Did you think that was a good book?" I said, "Well, yes," before Nora came back, sharply, with "It wasn't".
She spoke calmly, earnestly, and, I thought, unself-consciously.
As dour Queen Victoria, who died in 1901, gave way to carefree King Edward "the Caresser," Byatt writes, "people talked, and thought, earnestly and frivolously, about sex," while showing "a paradoxical propensity to retreat into childhood, to read and write adventure stories, tales about furry animals, dramas about pre-pubertal children".
