But what he relies on most is her guilelessness, the un-self-conscious, hesitant sincerity that stands in marked contrast to his own highly defended, hyperarticulate neurosis.
Mr. Shannon does have a remarkable lack of pretension, with an earnestness and sincerity that stands in contrast to his physical ostentation.
Linda exudes sincerity as she stands in Hyde Park in a fur coat giving a Communist speech about workers.
Yet people have flocked to join the Labour Party to vote for him, attracted by the clarity and sincerity of his stand for the environment, for equality, and against the excesses of capitalism.
But, while the play raises the question of how much sincerity society can stand – the issue that has always haunted French drama, from Molière's The Misanthrope to Yasmina Reza's Art – it seems slightly airless in comparison to Pinter's prototype.
On Tuesday, as politicians and civic groups once again commemorated the Beirut massacre that set off the war on April 13 , 1975 Mr. Shaftari — a 55-year-old with a look of mournful sincerity on his face — stood at a lectern addressing a group of students at the American University of Beirut.
His mastery of his brief, his patent sincerity and his willingness to stand a little aside from the government's lust to pave over the south-east has won him the respect of greens.
What Trump stands for, with utter sincerity, is Donald Trump.
LONDON, SATURDAY Among the curiously mingled impressions left by to-day's great ceremony in London, that of the immense dignity and sincerity of the nation's mourning stands out most sharply.
