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.
For starters, while Bush is earnestly (though perhaps not explicitly) rebranding himself as a moderate centrist, riffing on his brother's "Compassionate Conservative" mantra, his record as governor of Florida which he talked up for most of Monday's speech tells a different story.
He spoke earnestly, as though trying to convey a tremendous seriousness of purpose about his work in motion pictures.
"For a while I wasn't wearing glasses and stripy T-shirts," he says earnestly, "even though I like them, because I thought that's what I had become to so many people.
He bawls earnestly and unprettily -- though often with the telltale sound of Auto-Tune -- in the tradition of Britpop, even quoting an Oasis lyric.
The Riesters, though earnestly obedient, did not understand why the two groups were discouraged from fraternizing; why, for example, the priests and brothers had separate recreation rooms.
Puddicombe is full of these kinds of insights and analogies, which, though earnestly delivered, have a way of sounding as if they were lifted from a decorative pillow.
The problem, Brooks thought, was that the scene did not lend itself to history painting: "a group of men, wearing the somber-hued garments of American gentlemen, assembled in a plainly furnished apartment, though earnestly discussing a matter which is now historic, does not furnish a tempting subject for the tricks and bewildering cheats of art".
Problems arise, though, when we earnestly seek racism where clearly none exists.
He shook my hand earnestly and heartily, as though congratulating me.
With a typically sly smile, Mr. Schäuble insisted that he had drunk fewer than five Tannenzäpfle the day before, though adding more earnestly, "but not around a car".
