for sure(никто толком не знал, что = nobody knew for sure what. Since nobody knew for sure what had happened to that ancient prophet, some people thought Jesus was Elijah. Alexander Demidov); adequately(they don't explain it adequately – они это толком не объясняют Moscowtran)
-aligned(a conservative-aligned newspaper4uzhoj); of some orientation(...Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (Armed Forces of National Liberation, or FALN), a Puerto Rican clandestine paramilitary organization of Marxist-Leninist orientation that emerged in New York in 1974 and claimed responsibility for over 100 attacks in the United States and Puerto Rico4uzhoj)
in earnest(The politeness factor had a kind of evil Heckle and Jeckle effect with each delivery that added to the suspense at times, but it was overdone in some places and never explained in earnest.)
