The popularity of therapy rock may in part be a reaction to the shallow kiddie-pop and testosterone-addled "nu metal" of recent years, making sincerity and relentless introspection the new rebellion.
In the weeks and months ahead, even after he returns to the sport he has dominated for years, Woods's sincerity will be debated over and over.
After five years of agonising sincerity, Keane suddenly seem to have caught a case of the Zoo TVs and started dealing in irony.
Romney saw a moral dimension in every issue and his political views were held with as much fervor as religious ones; writer Theodore H. White said "the first quality that surfaced, as one met and talked with George Romney over a number of years, was a sincerity so profound that, in conversation, one was almost embarrassed".
The lower lie score in the subgroup of younger ex-mercury miners (< 54.5 years) suggests that sincerity could be an important personality trait enabling miners to preserve their collaborative and team-working spirit in the mine.
Here's a statement from a 1946 issue of the China Weekly Review that reads as though it came from a recent edition of the Economist: "[T]ales of corruption in public office have recently become so frequent and commonplace that they are no longer 'news.'" When Chiang launched an anti-corruption drive that year, commentators questioned his sincerity as they do Xi's today.
However, contrary to such expectations, Mirziyoyev proved himself to be rather a reformist in the first year of his presidency, albeit the sincerity of his moves remains open to interpretation (Abdurasulov, 2017).
"If European Union nations can demonstrate their sincerity several years earlier," he said, "it would reflect our friendship".
The new "Hot Sauce Committee Part Two" (Capitol) is the Beasties' most tolerable album in years, largely for the sincerity with which Ad-Rock, MCA and Mike D clamor for, and practice, a return to old-school values.
But it should be remembered that 10 years ago the gritty sincerity of the music in "The Harder They Come" won over pop listeners who had paid scant attention to the slicker, more commercial reggae on earlier record releases.
Lord Beaverbrook observed in the same year that he lacked "the proper note of sincerity for which the country listens".
