But the acting is patchy, episodes of kitchen-sink drama flat-footed, and – this could spell kiss of death to its cult potential – thuddingly earnest in places.
Planned mass evacuations as a means to mitigate disaster potential started in earnest in the 1950s and 1960s (Witham, 2005).
But with the news last week that Ms. Warren would be returning to Massachusetts, where she teaches law at Harvard, a sound-bite war about her potential candidacy started in earnest.
Addressing a potential showdown over immigration, Earnest said the White House would "certainly be open to conversation" with Republicans, leaving the door open to GOP opponents lobbying for alterations to the president's plans.
Whispers regarding McNealy's potential replacing began in earnest on Feb. 21 when Sun announced the re-hiring of Chief Financial Officer Michael Lehman Michael Lehman.
Flying home, I felt the come down, what several performers called the "post-Elko blues," knowing that what awaited me back home, what awaited all of us, weren't the open arms of community but the ugly alternative not the earnest handshake of potential friends but the questioning of strangers.
Potential nominees: Will Smith, Naomie Harris After misfiring with the earnest yet flat NFL drama Concussion, Will Smith is heading back into the awards race with this star-studded tale in which he plays alongside Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren and Kate Winslet.
In the first, the year 1957 marks the transition from the second to the third stage of conceptual evolution: the interpretive analysis reveals that it was essentially in this year that the public discourse re-oriented its focus from the earnest assessment of the potential dangers of nuclear waste to crystallizing the notion of nuclear waste as irredeemably dangerous.
The result is an alternately creaky and intriguing ride, one of earnest ambition and dashed potential.
As the plutocrats on Barry Diller's lawn were figuring out how to stop Trump's potential trump of Hillary, a thousand earnest democrats were boozing it up in a seaside tent in Santa Monica at the Independent Spirit Awards.
