His journey is in memory of a girlfriend murdered in Belize during her time with Operation Raleigh, and when you read that part of the sales are going to her memorial fund, you cannot help fearing that the book is going to be a somewhat maudlin if sincere and worthy trudge across Europe.
"But you're not funny," she says as they snuggle against each other, laughing at her own quick wit and also paying him a sincere, if somewhat backhanded, compliment.
She sounds sincere, if somewhat misguided.
And if her gaffes as spokesperson are legion, I'm willing to accept as sincere (if somewhat disingenuous) her frequent avowals that her newness to being an out trans woman disqualifies her for the role, and to credit her willingness to amend her positions and to attempt to wield her influence as the nation's highest profile trans woman positively.
The letter it accepted, however, provided somewhat less: an expression of "sincere regret" for the incident and "very sorry" for the loss of the Chinese pilot and intrusion into Chinese airspace during the emergency landing.
This generosity extends even to the "sincere and honest", but clearly somewhat confused, Church of England bishop Hugh Montefiore who could not believe (Dawkins calls this the Argument from Personal Incredulity) that natural selection explained, for instance, the whiteness of polar bears.
The result was a convention that felt entirely sincere in its criticism of the incumbent president, but somewhat half-hearted about the candidate it put forward to replace him.
I've always aspired to write an emotional song that feels sincere and real, as so many love songs feel somewhat contrived to me.
The warning in the first episode was put in as a sincere effort to warn young viewers, as the producers felt it was somewhat scary.
Mozart closed his letter to Haydn with a somewhat confused but effusive statement of friendship: "I remain with all my heart, dearest friend, your most sincere friend, W. A. Mozart".
