earnestly

Chairman Adam Cohn began attending hearings, sitting attentively in the gallery as attorney Louis “Skip” Miller assured the court the school earnestly wanted to reach a settlement.

People who know Burkett both inside and outside of the band believe the 2004 election was the first time he’d earnestly set out to do something and failed, and he took it extremely hard.

It's a skill he underplays, even when he earnestly lobs a corny dad joke at me — "You know what zero said to eight? Nice belt."

“In a truly, earnestly positive way, finishing the movie did feel like there’s a reason why I signed up to do this — like there was an itch I needed to scratch,” she says.

“Yeah, I shed a tear,” he says — earnestly, I think.