Grown-up iconoclasts turn earnest, though, and so have the Fugs.
"Stewart, in that post-9/11 period, he took those moments of seriousness, the moment where the comic needs to turn earnest – these symbolically important moments" and made them his own, Scepanski said.
But he then turns earnest and reads a text that, he says, he wrote that very day (and it's actually handwritten) — one in which he addresses Trump supporters, "the dispossessed," who are members of the "former middle class," people who've lost jobs and health insurance, who may have lost their homes and their savings, and who, he says, have "lost everything but the right to vote".
Sick with hepatitis, which she contracted in Africa, and generally in crisis, she turned in earnest to Buddhism.
As soon as the match against Melissa Mojica of Puerto Rico, 28, and a black belt, was over, Twitter comments turned more earnest.
As winter became spring, what-ifs and nervous laughter in pubs had turned into earnest theorising over what would happen if the two met.
But the conversation turned more earnest after Mr. Biden lobbied Mr. Specter to vote with the White House on the stimulus bill this year.
But the talk also turned in earnest to the issues of racial injustice and Mississippi's past, themes that permeated most of Morris's 18 books.
Once the America Online-Time Warner deal was formally completed in January, Mr. Levin said, he turned in earnest to the task of preparing for his successor.
