Eventually, after I've rooted way down, I begin to turn this same sincere attention, this same clarity of vision, onto my tender, unbothered self.
Which was, at the same time, sincere.
At the same time, sincere language of tolerance and restraint in Egypt, once heard during the innocent days of the 2011 revolution, has faded.
"I think with athletes going through these situations, whether it's a Michael Vick or an Alex Rodriguez, we always get stuck and have the same debate — how sincere is he or not sincere?" said Don Hooton, the antisteroid crusader.
One strategy is to import sections from Olivier Messiaen's composition of the same title, a sincere expression of spiritual love partially composed in a Nazi war camp.
We are respectful and sympathetic to the religious when they arrive at their different conclusions on the basis of the same commitment to sincere, rational, undogmatic inquiry as us, without in any way denying that we believe them to be false and misguided.
"I have known and been a friend of Jeff for over 40 years and he has always been the same... a sincere person with class," Scott Hunter, a Mobile resident who played football at the University of Alabama, told me via text message.
And nobody writes better than Dave Eggers about young men who aspire to be, at the same time, authentic and sincere.
Then, with unfamiliar abandon, with sweet little moans (moans that wouldn't wake the baby but felt sincere all the same; moans she trusted more than any moans she'd heard before), they had sex.
