Faultlessly modest and decidedly unstarry, she comes across as serious without being earnest and amusing without sounding false.
The first of those deadlines do not arise until the fall, but meeting them can require arduous work that cannot start in earnest without a formal declaration.
She smiled for the cameras, thanked the news media for coming and came across as earnest without taking sides in the controversy.
The next day, Ali — one cheek agonizingly swollen — reflects on the experience of defeat, saying that with "the intoxication of so-called greatness, the intoxication of always-victorious, you come to the point where you let your guard down," and admitting that, had he known of its effect on the fight, he wouldn't have played with Frazier in the ring but fought more in earnest, without theatrics.
With such a permanent, massive infusion of money, the process of liquidating unresuscitative loans could be undertaken in earnest, without bringing down the whole financial system.
This is an engaging voice: earnest without being morose; honest without being exhibitionistic; understated, humble and wise from years of trusting in questions more than in answers.
The wry and slightly naughty name is part of the band's hallmark style, which is earnest without being innocent, and funny without being ironic.
She is earnest without being too cloying.
His mournfulness is timeless and startlingly unironic without ever being earnest.
He's larger than life, with leading-man good looks and a seriousness that's earnest without being annoying.
We felt solidarity as we'd also made an album that was folky without being too earnest.
