Sentences with phrase «between earnestness»

Miss Sloane is trapped somewhere between the earnestness of its political convictions and the cynicism of its central character.

Walking the thin line between earnestness and ridicule can not be easy, yet Hawke is mesmerising in a part that gives him a real opportunity to display his understated and underrated talent as an actor.

On cable, Vera Farmiga's unhinged Norma Bates may be the draw to «Bates Motel,» but it's the nicely cast actors around her (Freddie Highmore, Max Thieriot, Olivia Cooke, Nestor Carbonell) who provide a context that straddles the line between earnestness and seediness, one in which her behavior almost approaches normality.

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Being a Reformed (Calvinist) theologian of considerable earnestness, McGrath's essay understandably dwells at length on the formula «justification by faith alone,» and related questions about, for instance, the connection between justification and sanctification.

Finally, earnestness about death can teach us about the wise use of time, about the difference between what Kierkegaard calls «accidental» and «essential» activities.

Romance between working - class Kim and princely employer Jonny (Ed Westwick) is — despite his engagement to Chloe (Sophia Bush) and the disapproval of his mother (Brooke Shields)-- as predictable as the many training - to - triumph montages and the climactic snowboarding competition, all of it formulaic pap treated with enervating earnestness.

The actors alternate between heavy earnestness and jokey familiarity, but they exist mainly for the same reason as the tricked - out cars: as bodies to be put into motion.

God's Land, Preston Miller's alternately languorous and engaging film about a Texas - based Taiwanese cult awaiting the end of days, walks a fine line between satire and earnestness, but the project...

by Walter Chaw Walking a fine line between nostalgia and regret, irony and earnestness, Philip Noyce's The Quiet American, adapted from the novel by Graham Greene, is a lovely film that captures, like Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, the delicate balance between romance in the immediate foreground and the backdrop of war and politics.

However, director Stephen Frears and co-writers Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope take this simple logline (based on a true story) and run with it in complete earnestness, crafting a sweet, thoughtful, and endearing story of guilt, redemption, and friendship that is buoyed by a remarkable performance from Judi Dench and excellent chemistry between the actress and her co-star, Steve Coogan.

They describe a world poised between two poles of earnestness and irony.

Between the tartness of Dr. Bradley, the thoroughness of Dr. Mann, and the earnestness (including hospitable invitation) of Dr. Hughes, something will surely hit a soft spot.

I do find the old threads have a certain earnestness and freshness that reflects a more genuine attempt at discourse between sceptical commenters and orthodox climate science.