Far from the flatly earnest gourmetspeak of Julia Child and the Galloping Gourmet, wryly hipster-inflected Foodish is a fiercely ascendant dialect these days because food is arguably this decade's main obsession.
He added that the film "is, undoubtedly, an earnest (though far from simplistic) ecological parable, but it is also a disarmingly sweet and simple love story, Chaplinesque in its emotional purity".
The movie, he added, "is, undoubtedly, an earnest (though far from simplistic) ecological parable, but it is also a disarmingly sweet and simple love story, Chaplinesque in its emotional purity".
Mr. Stewart said that P.E.I. mussels in an honest, earnest restaurant far from Prince Edward Island should taste as good as they do here, provided they've been shipped and stored with care.
It's irreverent but earnest, uncomplicated but far from stupid, self-deprecating but meaningful and loaded with big personalities.
This is earnest government, but far from any understanding of the existential and apocalyptic nature of the beast: You can't live with them; you can't get rid of them.
It would take the ballet equivalent of Johnny Depp, someone who can explode a show from the inside, but these performers are far too earnest in their interpretations for any such subversive fun to transpire.
"Alice is a natural follow-on from Earnest," he says.
So far, so earnest – but then he throws in a the most evil of curveballs.
