Sentences with phrase «earnest about»

Any employer would like to hire a candidate who is focused and earnest about his career.

Last year itself, Xiaomi's VP of global operations, Mr. Hugo Barra, had spoken in earnest about the international aspirations of the Chinese smartphone company, having just launched its products in India, making the country the very first international market for Xiaomi.

Ms. Moore is incredibly earnest about the big law system that she enthusiastically describes.

The mountains behind me begin in earnest about a further 1 km inland and extent about a further 20 or so km inland.

I was on the telly and Mum says I looked very scientific and earnest about Saving the World!

He is so earnest about this blatantly alarmist piece of fiction.

Amen to Hansen's calling on President Obama to personally and actively take up the cause of climate science and to begin to speak in earnest about the threat posed by global climatic disruption.

«History» as you assume means recorded history — and certainly the Arctic has not been ice free for any of that, but Dyson is referring to «Earth history» (i.e. the geological timescale), and if you look at that he is likely correct — Arctic ice started forming in earnest about 14 million years ago having been absent for most of the last 65 million years.

«I was conflicted,» the artist explains, «I was trying to find a clever way to approach painting because I felt like it wasn't acceptable to earnestly make abstract work, even though I was earnest about it.

«There is something earnest about artists opening their homes to the public.

Microsoft also needs to start talking in earnest about crossover with its forthcoming HoloLens headset.

I would say that the project began in earnest about less than a year ago.

I have a few male friends with whom I can talk in earnest about the truly personal aspects of my life.

That is why you have to be in earnest about writing your school application essays.

We certainly are in earnest about making Vantage Point successful on its own.

Early indications suggest that he is in earnest about these promises and that New Jersey is moving in a different educational direction.

He's earnest about the things he likes, and repeatedly defends his fondness for making films in which bad things happen to gorgeous women.

Now like all Malick films, you can either find that a trite subject to make a film, but equally like all of the directors work, he is unabashedly earnest about it.

The blurring of time in Comet is likely trying to say something earnest about memory, significant moments and living in the present.

de» only for fun and I was not earnest about it.

I'm earnest about helping others and providing real world advice that is often hard to find online, in the midst of a market filled with people who simply want to sell you an expensive e-book for profit.

Shokat's HHMI team, which is not part of the NCI initiative, started working on Ras in earnest about six years ago.

Perhaps Lewis is in deadly earnest about the need for an inquiry.

For more than 30 years, the LIRR has considered building a passing lane of sorts on its congested Main Line, but planning began in earnest about a decade ago on the proposed $ 1.3 billion project.

I talked about racial harmony and got very, very earnest about the need for white people to realize the deep racial fissures in American society.

How great the time will be when we can start debating in earnest about his successor and what a pity it is we acted too late for it to be Pep Guardiola or even Klopp.

Jesus and being in earnest about Him can understand it in two diametrically opposed ways?

Planning for the Buffer Fest began in earnest about a year ago, after sketching out ideas for the previous 12 months.

Not exact matches

Devote some time to thinking about them in earnest and how to use them to improve performance.

Perhaps those sales leaders — maybe you, too — should devote some time to thinking about your team's 2017 goals in earnest, and learn how to use them to improve performance and increase engagement.

«The harsh reminder of political dysfunction is about to begin again in earnest,» says Jonathan Citrin, founder of investment advisory Citrin Group, whose clients include small - business owners.

Department stores have been around for 271 years, but the digital blows that have sent them reeling started, in earnest, about 10 years ago when the iPhone and apps were introduced.

Libin started talking about finding a replacement with Evernote's board of directors in earnest early this year, and the company started zeroing in on candidates about four months ago.

When thinking about your down payment, note that some home deposits will equal as much as 3 % of your offer amount for an earnest money deposit plus another 20 % in mortgage down payment.

The purpose of this earnest money is to demonstrate the person is truly sincere about the purchase.

(Hint: If they are vague about what happens to the earnest money, or if they keep it, consider going elsewhere.)

In the first episode, you hear him make a fool out of himself in front of prominent Silicon Valley investor Chris Sacca and in many episodes, you hear earnest discussions with his wife Nazanin about the company and their future.

Sometimes Father Murray seemed to be whimsical about it, but at other times he was dead earnest in suggesting that a day might come when the proponents of the founding and defining Protestant tradition of the American experiment may, for complex reasons, tire of the experiment or turn against it.

Reflecting on her prayer not being answered she said: «I think about Jesus in the garden in Gethsemane and he's praying, sweating drops of blood in earnest praying out to God the father, giving him his desires... but your will be done.

Yet I suspect that more than a few churchpeople, conservative and liberal, continue to scorn those who relish the earnest, homespun approach of Charlie Shedd, Neva Coyle and Gwen Shamblin — those who pray feelingly about issues that may not seem to the rest of us to be on God's top list of concerns.

His address was simple and direct, while the president's was mendacious; his was earnest, while the president's was self - serving; and his was about the crisis, while the president's was about himself.

The filmmakers tackle this subject with an earnest honesty about privilege that lifts the documentary far beyond the topic of poverty.

And those who do live the life of the community, seeking to appropriate for themselves its central affirmations, yet unconcerned about the peripheral, secondary, and now and again misleading assertions and practices that have often been associated with those essentials; those who learn gradually to join in its prayers and receive the sacraments, and to read the Bible with open, earnest, yet critical minds; those who endeavor with heart and soul to express in daily life the Christian principle of life «in Christ» — such men and women will find increasingly that they genuinely belong.

The response by Christopher Tollefsen and Alexander Pruss to my piece, «Fig Leaves and Falsehoods» indicates, I hope, that the needed conversation about the morality of all false signification is underway in earnest.

Who I am is of no concern and my name, Philip, draws much attention from those who troll these waters and lurk for me and focus on me rather than these truths I have learned over decades of earnest and tear - filled pleas for God to show me what this world is all about.

And the parson, who had not been conscious of warmth or perspiration in preaching about Abraham, is astonished at himself, at the earnest wrath which he thundered down upon that poor man.

Maybe figure out how to speak in public better and do that smoky eye make - up, I'm tempted to come inside the stadiums and the conference centres and tell earnest and well - meaning people about the stuff I know.

For if you are serious about behavior change, Gregory thought, you will work incrementally by small steps to modify actually revisable behavior as evidence of your earnest desire for change.

But it can do so only if we become «earnest» about death.

The townspeople, bewildered about how to proceed, sent an earnest plea to Luther asking him to return.