Because particularly with young people I think that it's important to develop an iconography that is less earnest and more youthful and playful.
The sentimentality of his speech might not have disturbed me so much if he'd been less earnest, if he'd just assumed that cheap psychology was how one picked up women at bars, but he seemed to believe every word he spoke.
It was a thought that, had it been shared by a golfer who is less earnest and thoughtful, might have come off as illogical and brash.
The format did need refreshing but IMG's main innovations were less humour and more earnest analysis plus a coffee-table video screen.
If Mr. Shen were a less earnest artist, we could take his dancers' sticking their tongues out at us at face value.
But McCann's effort is less disciplined, more earnest, looser, rougher, more flawed but also more soulful — in other words, more like the city itself.
I fear that this is less of an earnest effort to bring fresh voices into the federal government than it is a glorified focus group that will feed young blood into the Liberal PR machine so that Justin Trudeau, vampire-like, will keep us in his youthful thrall forever.
But proving that Chris Martin and Coldplay are considerably less earnest than many might have perceived is their recent Red Nose Day video.
The events, which are free, have an ambience that's less date night than earnest dorm-room bull session, though actual dancing did break out at one recent event, held at a Polish bar in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
The films of Mr. Weychert, a graphic designer who lives near Philadelphia, are far less earnest, mixing social commentary with a slacker spirit.
