A certain folk-like earnestness to her singing firmly pushes the song into alt-country territory.
Even so, you can't deny there is a level of Dawson's Creek-like earnestness seeping through Millennial.
He liked the earnestness and seriousness of his approach to football, promised him he would make him a better player, and began moving him to a more central area.
But can earnestness like his survive in the meatpacking district?
There's a long-standing pattern of shrugging off the generation of feminists that came before you, embarrassed by what feels like their earnestness or their excessiveness.
Tyrone, Mr. Boyer said in apparent earnestness, really likes to improvise.
She likes Kerry's steady earnestness and is intrigued by Clark.
For the purists out there, it has to be Rayman Legends (developed and published by Ubisoft; available for PC, 360, PS3, Wii U), a game so impossibly beautiful – in both irresistible looks and intuitive mechanics – that it's a glorious upper after 2013's releases of utmost earnestness, the likes of The Last Of Us, BioShock Infinite and Tomb Raider.
This week brings us to the heart of the commencement season, when dignitaries — notable and not so much — arise and breathe earnestness like annealing dragon fire over capped and tasseled heads.
CAROL GIACOMO This week brings us to the heart of the commencement season, when dignitaries — notable and not so much — arise and breathe earnestness like annealing dragon fire over capped and tasseled heads.
These remarks appear disingenuous in print, but he delivered them with his trademark earnestness, like a schoolboy trying to convince a friend that he'd lucked out in a multiple-choice exam.
