Sure enough, yesterday they revealed that they are giving earnest consideration to paying £75,000 to supplement him for the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.
He showed up on TV on Saturday afternoons in his red-white-and-blue Elvis suits, giving earnest stay-in-school speeches.
Mr. Jackson and Ms. Graynor are best at giving earnest voice (and body) to this logic, though Mr. Winkler is pretty amusing when Chuck accepts an award saying, "You've opened your hearts and your legs to me".
Mr. Potucek gave earnest but amusing background stories on everything from the once-frescoed Gothic hallways, to the Verona Candelabra (a gift from Agnes that was shipped from Italy in pieces to be reassembled on arrival at Klosterneuburg), to the famous Verdun Altar: a collection of 51 miniature enamel and gold biblical scenes created by Nicolaus of Verdun in 1181.
Mind you, his compatriot José Mourinho was not averse to giving earnest interviewers the bum's rush, so maybe the biting put-down is yet another area in which our belief that we lead the world is little more than a sad delusion.
If they find there is danger of serious future loss, they would give earnest and fair-minded consideration to the question whether the stockholders' interests might not best be served by sale or liquidation.
The conversation mostly consisted of Vovan and his "translator" speaking Russian, and then relaying brief, earnest-sounding questions about a possible future meeting to John, who gave earnest replies.
We conduct research and give earnest papers in a field called Asian American Studies, and the tiger oils Chua and Yang have been peddling to the American public of late are not new or mysterious to us.
When I said it was classical I was pointed to a CD of Tony Bennett's greatest hits, and given the earnest explanation that it was "a classic .I briefly explained what classical music was and the clerk quickly caught on.
Every year from 1996 to 2001, Fortune magazine ranked it the US's "most innovative" company, and the award was given in earnest: Fortune isn't big on irony.
