Sentences with phrase «earnest interest»

Sending in a cover letter along with your resume ensures that you present your earnest interest to secure an interview.

Ask them about events they experienced with their mother, not to dig for dirt, but to show an earnest interest.

Educational leaders took notes with earnest interest from such speakers as they told them they would need to know where the nearest bomb sniffing dog kennel was in case of an emergency.

There was reason enough, then, to hope his preference for long takes and earnest interest in bodies in motion would translate to a franchise inspired by a line of action figures.

«He has a very earnest interest in how we can develop the policy that best promotes the growth of small business, which is the economic recovery engine of our area,» said Tonko.

I can't vouch for what the Guy (pun intended) is like in person, but he seems like a cool enough dude, with an earnest interest in bold, spicy, flavorful food that regular, no - nonsense joes like me can appreciate.

Not exact matches

The fun name «does a lot of work for us» in sparking interest in Tangerine, Aceto says, but service at the customer level needs to be thoughtful and earnest in order to build a client base.

If the recovery got underway in earnest and credit demand surged, we could slow down the rate of credit creation by raising the interest rate we pay on excess reserves.

Despite my earnest efforts to make sessions on the sacraments, church history, the Bible, ethics and beliefs interesting, the last thing on earth these youth wanted was to be put through two more hours of school every Thursday during Lent.

While this begins as a low - key and entirely earnest endeavour, the influence and interest he attracts soon transform and corrupt him.

I read for interest, but yours is the one i go to if I want to make something in earnest.

The truth is that the «new woman» is just not interested, instantly confining the chaps from the laboratory to a life of earnest bachelordom and endless meals for one.

Brühl brings his usual earnestness to a role that's already too earnest, and a shark - eyed Pike somehow fares even worse, with a flashback love interest doing little to add color to her waxen character.

But «Godard Mon Amour,» the director's half - parodic / half - earnest stab at turning his country's rule - breaking enfant terrible (played by Louis Garrel) into one - half of a prickly movie couple — focusing on his then - new marriage to his «La Chinoise» star Anne Wiazemsky (Stacy Martin)-- is the kind of curiously inconsequential homage that neither stokes your interest in cinema / Godard nor illuminates a turbulent love story between artists.

Treacle of the highest / lowest order, this embarrassingly sappy sci - fi tearjerker unfolds chiefly from the perspective of an earnest space boy (eternal sensitive adolescent Asa Butterfield) who leaves the Martian colony where he was born to find his real father on Earth, while also romancing an unconvincingly teenage love interest (Britt Robertson).

The tone here is at once earnest and bracingly adult: Nichols takes his time revealing the hows and whys of supernaturally enabled kid Alton (the impressively stoic Jaeden Lieberher), who, with dad (Michael Shannon) and ally (Joel Edgerton), is on the run from a range of sinister, interested authorities.

The best line is the above quote from the teaser, and, despite their earnest performances, none of the core cast have any particularly interesting characters.

Back to Boss, where things get more interesting (in between the various hauntings) as Mayor Kane attempts to find redemption on a number of fronts: at home, where his wife (the terrific Connie Nielsen) and estranged daughter Emma (Hannah Ware, a pallid weak link) can barely stand to share a dinner table with him; and more compellingly, with the city at large, where his efforts at urban redevelopment of a run - down housing project seem unusually selfless — he certainly impresses the alluring and earnest political operative (Sanaa Lathan) whom he lures into his inner circle.

Yet not to confront the challenges of structure and governance in public education in our time is to accept the glum fact that the most earnest of our other «reform» efforts can not gain enough traction to make a big dent in America's educational deficit, to produce a decent supply of quality alternatives to the traditional monopoly, or to defeat the adult interests that typically rule and benefit from that monopoly.

As Clowes traces the dissolution of their friendship, iconic markers of coming - of - age float to the foreground: self - consciousness in the face of revealing genuine interest; fear of breaking away from the comforts of childhood; the earnest desire to leave home; and the heartbreak of realizing a friendship is over.

He's sensitive and earnest; he dislikes conformity, even when it's in his best interests; he can be literal - minded and pedantic; and when he's anxious, he tends to adopt a «my way or the highway» mentality that's the very epitome of unhelpful.

Yet, the interest never departed and I was happy to return to it in earnest in retirement.

The currency has been climbing since the middle of June when speculation the Bank of Canada might raise interest rates started in earnest.

If you're interested in truly diversifying your portfolio and pursuing stock market diversification in earnest, then look into other asset classes, particularly those that don't correlate as much to the standard investments you already own.

Once you have your high - interest debts under control, it's time to start saving for the future in earnest.

In the current environment of rising interest rates, lower costs, and higher loan growth, we believe earnings and equity valuations for the banking sector should recover in earnest.

The initial deadlines on the purchase agreement were not met but we kept interested and now I want to know if we back out, will we forfeit our earnest money?

It is only in their best interest that we try in earnest to get them out.

The interest of the privileged, urban, predominantly European American classes in the expressive cultural production of those who look and live differently, whether earnest and benign or voyeuristic and exploitative, is nothing new.

But it is also earnest and fiddly and without much visual interest - which I guess describes most Turner Prize winners, but I'm afraid doesn't appeal to me.

«As «Uptown» shows... her true interest lay with those that touched on her day - to - day: earnest kids, mixed - race couples, sari - wearing Madonnas, Iranians fleeing the revolution, handsome young men in Jheri curls.»

Apparently — and Baker does seem quite earnest — we are to take him at his word about how well the FISC works in balancing the interests of national security and citizens» privacy.

While there have been many bar - organized efforts to provide mentoring over the years, state bars and others interested in the primary and continuing education of lawyers have recently begun to act in earnest.

But even the most earnest unions require care and caution in the interest of keeping both the romantic and employment relationship in tact.

Mass interest in cryptocurrency within South Korea began in earnest in fall 2017, according to trade volume data from Korean cryptocurrency exchange firm Korbit.

Then Treyarch dropped Black Ops 2 — a game filled with good ideas and earnest, interesting attempts to advance the series into exciting new territory.

Our biggest obstacle was the banks, which, until ReHAP, didn't have to pay interest on earnest money accounts.

In Wyoming, brokers can't earn interest on clients» earnest money, so the association last September established a 501 (c)(3) organization that allows brokerages to each open a federal tax - exempt, interest - bearing account into which all earnest monies from their transactions can be deposited.

The Wyoming Real Estate Commission asked that that we add a clause to our buy - sell contract stating that buyers agree to allow interest on their earnest money to be donated to the ReHAP program.

According to Freddie Mac's archives, the lowest that mortgage interest rates have been in modern history (since 1971) was in November and December 2012 at 3.35 percent with 0.7 points for a benchmark 30 - year, fixed - rate loan, and that was back in 2012 before the housing recovery began in earnest.

Even though a home seller might have a legitimate reason and right to demand a buyer's earnest money deposit in the event a buyer defaults, exercising that right might not be in the seller's best interest.

This is often done with no regard to your financial interest and potential for losing your hard earned earnest money deposit while in escrow if your loan will not approve.