A common gene variant conferring elevated risk of (type 2 diabetes) has been earnestly sought by the genetics community for many years.
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.
My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression
I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.
Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.
A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.