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I mumbled the usual nonsense that fans spew to their idols—"love your work … meant so much to me … still listen to 'Mixed Bag.'" How does one say these things sincerely without sounding like a gushing imbecile?
What distinguishes the Broadway babies from my own Cusack-vintage peer group is that they embrace musical theater wholeheartedly and sincerely, without any apologist dissembling ("The Music Man" is as smart and intricate an exploration of American song craft as "Pet Sounds") or ironic distance ("Patti LuPone + "Gypsy" = hot-mess nirvana").
If you apologize, do so sincerely, without passive-aggressiveness or excuses.
Humble yourself and apologize sincerely, without making excuses or justifications like "I'm sorry you made me angry".
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Can you sincerely apologize without admitting guilt?
"I think the rise of the dog – friendly, warm, human's best friend, who people can love earnestly and sincerely and without fear of being made fun of for the sentiment – is a good representation of the mainstreaming of the internet".
1. Listening sincerely and without an agenda.
Even if one can sincerely apologize without having any special feeling or attitude as one does so, it seems we would not say of a person that they were sorry unless they had such an attitude.
And where episodes of "Sanders" would often go out on a moment of discomfort -- the dominant note for clever comedies over the last decade -- "Shandling" likes a happy ending, sincerely, and without irony.
Never try to tame a wild animal without permission or without sincerely considering what you will do after you tame it.
The show revels sincerely and entirely without irony in the lost innocence and wholesomeness of 1950s America.
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