earnest
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Awards columnist Glenn Whipp breaks down ‘Marty Supreme’s’ opening box office, and initial audience reaction, as its Oscar campaign kicks off in earnest.
From Los Angeles Times
The fire drill for us lawyers began in earnest that day.
For two awkward weeks, Wiener started campaigning in earnest while Pelosi, de facto San Francisco royalty, readied her announcement.
The song concludes, in earnest this time, pretty much where it started yet with changed feel and hue.
The director, 44, grew up in a secular home in Norway, but her film about this radical American sect is strikingly earnest.
From Los Angeles Times
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