While much theatre of the time tackled serious social and political issues, Earnest is superficially about nothing at all.
But conservatives issued earnest pleas all summer for him to do and say more to open that door Castellanos spoke of, and in September, those cries grew even louder.
There was never much doubt about the outcome, but at one point he issued an earnest warning: "Take care to not weaken your king's position unnecessarily".
Congress will not take up the issue in earnest until later this year.
The Center for Health, Environment and Justice stands by its study and says that it was trying to issue an earnest public warning about an environmental hazard.
Tracing the evolution of his thinking about Social Security and the financial markets, Mr. Gore said that he had kept an open mind to many possible solutions to the retirement system's problems when the Clinton administration began examining the issue in earnest a few years ago.
In light of the continuing rise of data-breaches and identity fraud cases, tech firms are addressing this issue in earnest, and are focusing on ways to strengthen and facilitate the password paradigm, or to have it replaced altogether.
To that end, I wouldn't be surprised to see environmental groups collectively generate hundreds of thousands of calls after July recess, as the Senate actually begins to debate the issue in earnest.
The IOM began work on this issue in earnest, at the request of federal agencies, in the immediate aftermath of what can only be called the "Smart Choices debacle".
"Until the late 1990s, when the asset-backed mortgage bonds began to be issued in earnest, investment bankers would hire a due diligence firm to make sure the real estate collateral was solid," said Coffee.
