Sentences with phrase «earnest around»

Systematic measurements of permafrost (thermal state and active layer) began in earnest around 1950 and were coordinated under the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost.

Snowmelt begins in earnest around May 20.

Though we now know climate only began in earnest around the time of Olivia Newton John's popularity, there is evidence of something resembling climate before that.

Leoni thus served as a prominent exponent of Palladianism in English architecture, beginning in earnest around 1720.

Things pick up in earnest around Garelochhead.

In particular, five large districts initiated different flavors of school reform, beginning in earnest around 2005.

For a parent and child, Provine says, shared laughter helps create a strong bond long before a baby starts to talk in earnest around age 2.

Festivities at Daytona Motor Speedway will start in earnest around 10 a.m. ET on Sunday, Feb. 24.

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In person, McDonald is earnest and friendly — he remembers names and likes to lunch with lower - level employees at every stop he makes around the world — yet a bit uncomfortable.

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.

By the time the bank started raising money for 1MDB in earnest three years later, corrupt officials had already sucked around $ 1 billion from the fund, the legal documents show.

We all sat around the table — and if an Elder needed to elder, he stood up and did so — but he was not only marked by his depth, wisdom, compassion and love — but his earnest haste — he could not wait to sit down again amongst us and be one of us - all of us at the feet of the Master Builder.

>> >» You've been poking around this blog for a while now — have you noticed how many earnest Christians believe that atheists are inherently amoral?»

I've given kale a slight ribbing lately (see my quick story about it over at Food & Wine), but this time around I was earnest, eager and ready.

The afternoon - shadow - lengthening season finally got under way again in dead earnest all over the country; hundreds of big shadows, which had allowed themselves to get a bit frowsy around the edges while lengthening, month after month, in stadiums populated solely by pigeons and ground - keepers, policed themselves up and slid down across their respective goal lines as nicely as hair oil on a barbershop floor.

@gooner1000 it's my earnest hope that Wenger would give me an opportunity to turn around and say how f *** king great the team is, hell I'll even gladly take the shit AKBs alone know how to spew... But remember it should only follow consistent great performances, scrapping lucky one goal wins against mediocre teams like anderletch, westbrom etc don't count.

Well there is quite a lot of Arsenal transfer rumours flying around as the window begins in earnest.

With this in mind he has begun job - hunting in earnest, has met with debt specialists to solve his situation, and is trying to turn his life around with our joint future in mind.

He was the second - place finisher in the six - way primary for the seat two years ago, and around the start of the year he began campaigning in earnest with a message of «building bridges in what is Florida's most diverse state Senate district.»

«This job of comptroller,» said Stringer, in a speech earnest enough to suggest that it might not have been entirely scripted, «I'd like to think I made it cool around the country.»

Larrabee, who happens to be a fellow Ulster County native, has a reputation as a fiercely loyal and earnest defender of his bosses and also an all - around good guy.

The post-mortem and recriminations will now start in earnest and undoubtedly see many allegations thrown around about the motives and alleged political games played over the affair.

You could argue that a white person can never truly be woke and they should stop trying to be, and it is absolutely true that even the most earnest and self - aware white people need to tread carefully around the r - word.

An earnest, uncomplicated and funny - around - the - edges little romantic comedy about a guy on the rebound but still stuck in psychological orbit of his ex, multi-hyphenate Juddy Talt's movie works best as a showcase for his talents.

Listen, this biopic basically revolves around Jackie's earnest effort to turn Herman into a cause célèbre, but it carefully tiptoes around the more compelling elephant in the tiny cell, namely, whether there's a romantic aspect to their relationship?

In fact it's amazing Efron and Jackman are as watchable as they are, considering the film daren't paint either of their characters are anything more complex than earnest eccentrics just trying to spread some happiness around.

A warm earnest actress with an expressive face, Larson's breakout has seemed right around the corner for years.

To his credit, Garland's flirtation with questions about how even humans, let alone seductive androids, are sexually programmed by the normative systems around them, feels earnest.

Here, The Amazing Criswell (Jeffrey Jones), Vampira (Lisa Marie), Tor Johnson (George «The Animal» Steele), and Bunny Breckinridge (Bill Murray) all find not only orbit around Wood's deranged charisma but also immortality in some of the worst, most earnest vanity pieces ever committed to film.

Played nicely by an earnest Thomas Brodie - Sangster — part of an all - around laudable cast — Donald is brimming with all of the expected angst and confusion that afflicts any teenage boy.

Kudos to it for garnering an army of defenders who seem to congregate around B - movies that are funny accidentally, seem earnest in their creation, and deliver slightly better - than - expected goods there at the end.

But the finest moments come when Tony pals around with his prepubescent sidekick Harley, because Harley is our audience surrogate: He looks at Downey with awe when he's being goofy and earnest concern when he's struggling.

There's the earnest Coast Guard sailor (Chris Pine as Bernie Webber) who was at the center of a past nautical tragedy and must now redeem himself by saving those aboard the tanker; the gruff officer (Eric Bana) who barks out one dubious command after another; the obnoxious crew member whose ceaseless complaining grows (unintentionally) comical; the all - around nice guy who, because he's the gosh - darn nicest guy around, will invariably be subjected to the most gruesome fate; and so on.

By the time the story circled all the way back around to become an earnest sci - fi adventure again, I was fully onboard.

Don Cheadle, generally cast as the earnest do - gooder in films like Hotel Rwanda and Crash, taps into his hilarious, no - holds - barred side and demonstrates why he is easily one of the best actors around.

So maybe there is some heavy shit floating around, but are we really supposed to wait for another movie to come along before we can approach ideas like guilt and regret in earnest?

He returned an earnest, hard - working student, looking to change the people and the world around him.

However, this time around Jeep has made a more earnest effort to turn the Grand Cherokee into a viable alternative to the Wrangler when venturing out where the pavement ends, while also retaining the livability of a typical SUV.

An inventive and witty debut about a young man's quest to become a writer and the misadventures in life and love that take him around the globe From as early as he can remember, the hopelessly unreliable, yet hopelessly earnest, narrator of this ambitious debut novel has wanted to become a writer.

Ask the lender to specify under what circumstances the earnest money will be kept, and if the answer is vague, keep shopping around.

While buyers can always back out of a deal, doing so without good reason may forfeit their earnest money (the cash put down to secure the offer, typically around 1 % -2 % of the home's price).

Around closing time you should discuss with your VA loan specialist if the money should be put towards closing costs or if you will be receiving a refund of all or a portion of the earnest money.

However, development on Splatoon 2 began in earnest from around October 2015.

Thrown together for laughs during a gamejam, the title was also, in its way, an earnest celebration of the second generation Kinect's finesse - unchecked, as so many Kinect games are, by the expectations of genres that have coalesced around controllers or mouse - and - keyboard.

The more the team looked at her, the more it became clear they had a figure they could build a game around, and the process of filling out her backstory (or, perhaps, lack of one) began in earnest.

The series takes an earnest look at what constitutes, excites, entangles, and necessitates ideas and questions around sculpture now.

In approaching The Arcades Project (Harvard University Press) for the first time in earnest I explored Benjamin's use of «phantasmagoria,» traced it back through letters with Adorno, to Marx, to the 17th - century illusionistic «theatre of phantasmagoria,» and developed an essay about illusions created on social media for a journal tasked with addressing the rise of authoritarian populism around the globe.

Their combination of humble materials and earnest effort is all the more touching for being rough around the edges.

Organized around each of these cities and families, Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott features previously unpublished photographs as well as a seven - page draft of Parks» text for the article, and presents a rarely seen view of the everyday lives of African American citizens years before the civil rights movement began in earnest.

The six installations included in the show were created at a time when earnest discussions around identity politics in liberal intellectual circles were causing a backlash from conservatives, straight white men, shock - jocks, gross - out cartoonists and moviemakers, as well as bad - boy contemporary artists such as Rhoades.