Word: earnest
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...city councilman in Cleveland. At 31, he's the country's youngest big city mayor. All this success, you figure, would make his skin glow a little, his suits a bit spiffier, his speeches a little punchier. But what if he was so damn earnest that it didn't? What if at 60 he still looked and sounded like Dennis Kucinich...
...Henry Fonda, even as it leads to a massacre--and can still say years later, "He made it a command to be proud of." It's what Clint Eastwood was aiming for in his account of the doomed Japanese soldiers in Letters from Iwo Jima--except that Eastwood, the earnest Westerner, couldn't get much past the earnest Eastern clichés: the suicidal fanatics, the humanistic general, the humble baker turned soldier who serves as a life-affirming symbol of hope...
...than about naked yoga,” says participant Daniel K. O’Neil, dismissing stereotypes of the class as a gay cruising center. In order to ensure a comfortable atmosphere in the class, Sparling screens phone calls and interviews prospective students, weeding out the voyeurs from the earnest exercisers. Those who make the cut are encouraged, but not forced, to go full-frontal for the first class. Not that anyone’s complaining. “Clothes feel restrictive for exercise that involves so much stretching and twisting,” writes Robert B. Dimmick...
...Henry Fonda, even as it leads to a massacre - and can still say years later, "He made it a command to be proud of." It's what Clint Eastwood was aiming for in his account of the doomed Japanese soldiers in Letters from Iwo Jima - except that Eastwood, the earnest Westerner, couldn't get much past the earnest Eastern cliches: the suicidal fanatics, the humanistic general, the humble baker turned soldier who serves as a life-affirming symbol of hope...
...determine your enjoyment of something is fruitless. Let’s be serious: Valentine’s Day has kind of screwed itself over. Paper cards, stale candy, and the cheapest flower that money can buy: it’s inherently kind of insulting to receive these things in earnest from someone you’re romantically involved with. But getting a Tonka truck Valentine from your best friend or a yellow carnation with “Please fix me up with your brother at Loyola” is hilarious and—dare...