Sentences with phrase «certain hopefulness»

Don't be surprised if, after 45 minutes or so, you start greeting every gray hair that sprouts on his head with a certain hopefulness, or feel the impulse to take out your phone to find out exactly how long Turner lived.

I've also exercised a certain hopefulness here, as there are a few films that don't yet have official 2012 release dates.

Not exact matches

But having a lower number does mean a certain degree of hopefulness that none of the key players get seriously injured and all will retain their quality (and it is not just Arsenal players who occasionally seem to lose it over the summer).

There's a potency to his films, a certain generosity and warmth that defines his auteurism more than anything else, and, with that, an ebullient hopefulness about the cycle of growth that can be infectious.

Though it's frustrating when they fall short by trying too hard to tie up their ends, The Machinist and Enduring Love approach nihilism with a certain degree of hopefulness, replicating by that instinct the struggles of their protagonists to make sense of the senseless — to bear up under a sea of nothing and wish in vain to not be consumed by the rising tide of nothing.

A certain innocent hopefulness winds its way through each of these stories in which the characters want something, both tangible (money) and intangible (to understand where they are headed in life and how they will get there).

This has a certain denial of the present, but also hopefulness about the future.