Word: earnest
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...borrowed the religious leader's car, according to police. The Arab driver was allegedly involved in the Independence Day rocket plot. "This is significant," says one Washington official. "Pakistan's engagement in the war on terror is all the more visible with these detentions." The crackdown, which began in earnest in August, has enraged the deeply conservative, Islamic sector of Pakistani society...
...years ago, a young mayor from sydney's western suburbs began sending unsolicited articles to the opinion page of the Australian newspaper. They were earnest and written in a plain style, usually about health, education or economic policy. As the then editor of the page, I was struck by the way this fellow threw himself into the policy debate, and impressed by how he would good-naturedly accept rejection. At a time when the paper's editor-in-chief demanded "names," why would anyone care what an obscure 33-year-old Labor operative called Mark Latham...
...pulled off the Lyell Highway, and our outfits have added to the feeling of uneasy excitement. We clip bright life jackets over a motley combination of bathers, thermal pants and tops, shirts, shorts and wetsuits, before donning helmets, thick socks, gloves and sneakers. We should expect, says Pat, an earnest, highly capable 21-year-old who's on his first trip as tour leader, to get very hot and very wet, often at the same time. And he's right, for though the sun beats down as we set off, bags and barrels of food lashed to the rafts, within...
...Though Kirkland went Hollywood, Hollywood didn?t go him. Somehow, this fine-featured fellow with the light voice, wavy blond hair and earnest manner didn?t strike sparks with the camera. Within three years he was back on Broadway in 1933, as a member of the radical Group Theatre...
...Nigerian, half white Kansan, from Chicago by way of New York and Hawaii, Obama was the convention’s keynote speaker—a distinction that meant middling reviews and continued obscurity for most of the politicians given the job. But with breathtaking confidence, breezy style and an earnest, resonant voice, the next U.S. senator from Illinois delivered the most powerful tribute to a political campaign in 20 years. Despite years battling the longest odds to make progress for inner city kids and struggling South Side neighborhoods, Obama explicitly rejected cynicism and embraced “the politics...