"Notes of apricot, " a waiter ventured, which was followed by more earnest proclamations from wine-tasting amateurs.
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Such books regard more earnest matters like history, context, and ideas the way a child looks at a plate of Brussels sprouts.
Mark Sirower, who teaches business strategy and competitive analysis at New York University's Stern School of Business, is more earnest and more learned.
For more earnest players, there could be an exhilarating series of case studies on how to pay for public transport, fix taxes, and so on.
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And how can you offer advice that appears more earnest and is better researched than others they might come across, all while representing you in the best possible light?
When Rod finally sees the folly of his ways, it takes more than earnest pleadings to convince Abby he's really changed not that there's any real doubt as to how this story concludes.
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And hot stock tips produce more pageviews than earnest lectures about mutual fund expense ratios.
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Rather than having the jaunty wit of a Wally Schirra, the affable magnetism of a John Glenn or the flinty swagger of a Chuck Yeager, Neil Armstrong came across as nothing more than the earnest, no-nonsense engineer he actually was.
Although the Nick of the novel arrives at a new and tragic understanding of the American Dream, the Nick on screen can't be more than an earnest observer, since any vestige of the story's tragic sense has been replaced by melodramatic sadness.
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After a lull over Christmas, the process is now beginning in earnest once more.
While Anonymous is often characterized as a group of malicious cyber-terrorists, they struck me more as a group of earnest young protesters with a dark sense of humor and a brilliant knack for viral marketing.
When temperatures warm more, the melting will come in earnest, prompting many residents to get water pumps ready at their businesses and homes to prevent flooding.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority will begin an internal debate on its advertising policies in earnest on Thursday, just more than two months after its refusal of an anti-Muslim ad campaign was ruled to have violated the First Amendment of the Constitution.
The collective bargaining agreement negotiated after last year's lockout makes the penalties for exceeding the salary cap far more punitive, and the system begins in earnest next season.
Construction began in earnest over the past decade, and more than half of the 180 planned homes have been built.
Deployment of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips, after years of hype and more than a few false starts, gets going in earnest.
Congress returns tomorrow for a short, pre-midterm election session, and with the political season starting in earnest, the mood on Capital Hill is becoming more partisan.
The parliamentary elections, considered the more perilous as the factions are expected to compete for power in earnest then, will be put off until next spring.
In April, when the IPO frenzy began in earnest, job openings at Bay Area start-ups had more than doubled to 3, 609, compared with 1, 739 in April 2008, before the downturn.
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My petulant badgering of Audin had been nothing more than second-rate theatrics, which no doubt all of the Afghans expected from an earnest and self-righteous American.
Washington County is a terrain of gentle hills and close valleys that grows more rugged as you get east over toward the Vermont border, where the Green Mountains begin in earnest.
The financial meltdown that commenced in earnest during the autumn of 2008 has led many observers, commentators and regulators to question more closely what it is that private equity and hedge funds actually do.
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It all started in earnest because you don't really need to be in the middle of Silicon Valley any more to start a company.
If TED and TEDActive attendees are the earnest hippie parents obsessed with ideas, SXSW-goers are their punk Alex Keaton offspring preoccupied with more worldly concerns.
The aim, according to Luis Fernando Ramirez, the defence minister, is more modest: to convince the guerrillas that they can never win militarily, and so should start negotiating in earnest.
Too often, in fact, they do little more than titillate the cognoscenti by being as deliberately "transgressive" as possible, in the process shocking innocently earnest viewers who fail to realize that transgressive art has no purpose other than to shock.
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