Sentences with phrase «earnest young»

One booth featured an earnest young fellow demonstrating a unique ladder that boasted over 50 positions.

Well, there were those two earnest young men who kept asking if they could be Prime Minister of Canada, but neither one has written in a while now, so maybe they'll be happy with an i - Pod Shuffle.

Just in case they change it, and the earnest young man at the keyboard is no longer there when you go to look, I've put a screenshot below.

(«Just look for a big yellow M,» explained an earnest young staff member.)

Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart.

The story is told by Eddie, a somewhat slow - witted, if always earnest young man with an ardor for driving.

In a concussed state, she gives an interview to a hilariously earnest young reporter who sees profundity in everything Amy says and — voila!

The ballerina is Chaplin's own discovery, Claire Bloom, playing a beautiful and earnest young dancer.

Now, Abraham Lincoln (as played by Benjamin Walker) isn't merely an earnest young Illinois striver who learns vampires are real and spends his life fighting them, both personally and politically.

The Collins we first meet in Fogelman's film — in a brief, «Almost Famous» - ish prologue set in 1971 — is an earnest young singer - songwriter in the Bob Dylan / Jim Croce mold (played by Eric Schneider, a reasonable doppelganger for the «'' Panic in Needle Park» - era Pacino).

The camera backs slowly away from Barbara Jean, then reverse - cuts, disclosing the small assembly in the chapel: Barnett, waiting for it all to be over; an earnest young girl nodding and moving her lips in accompaniment to that voice; a group of mostly aged friends and relatives of other hospital inmates; and two men, Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn) and Pfc. Kelly (Scott Glenn), keeping what will turn out to be deathwatches over the crucial women in their respective lives.

Many of the actors just felt like they were playing the crooked bad guy or the earnest young law student trying to be on the winning team.

Hurd Hatfield plays Dorian Gray, a handsome, earnest young man who stops aging after having his portrait painted, and George Sanders takes top billing as Lord Henry Wotton, the hedonistic cynic who tempts the young and moral Dorian to indulge in all the pleasures of the world.

Kate Mara plays Kopechne, depicted as an earnest young woman a member of the «Boiler Room Girls,» a group of secretaries and strategists who gave their souls to Bobby's presidential campaign, and were being urged to sign on for another one.

It's a character piece, and the exploration of Churchill's interpersonal relationships that drives the story, specifically between him and his stalwart wife Clementine (Kristin Scott Thomas), his earnest young secretary Elizabeth (Lily James), and a seemingly effete King Edward VI (Ben Mendelsohn in a brilliantly subtle turn).

«Obvious Child» features Jenny Slate in an eye - opening turn as Donna Stern, a stand - up comic who loses her job, breaks up with her boyfriend and ends up getting pregnant after a one night stand with an earnest young business school student named Max, played by Jake Lacy.

An earnest young cast brings welcome freshness, but rationality and cohesiveness skipped class.

The entrances to their offices may be graced by a cow sleeping on a pile of rubbish, but inside the walls are decorated with advertisements for Microsoft or IBM, and earnest young men sit glued to computer screens.

Though Wang doubtlessly does not intend her debut novel as a treatise on the ills and failings of scientific training at high - powered research universities, she poignantly highlights many of the issues that make that process so trying for so many ambitious and earnest young people.

One of Bryant's early Alabama teams had an earnest young player of limited ability named Russell Stutz.

Between the halves, U.S. Coach Buzz Bennett, an earnest young man but hardly closer to first - rank as a coach than his players, tried to goad his men to better performances by saying, «Don't you guys realize that's a high school team you're playing against?

The temple cultus, with its sacrifices and offerings and the arrangements for providing sacrificial victims, had become such an elaborate, noisy, and odorous affair that to the earnest young prophet from Galilee the spirit of true worship must have seemed to be lost.

We watched the familiar pantomime of British Columbian environmental protesters outside Kinder Morganâ $ ™ s Burnaby pipeline terminal this weekâ $» earnest young students with the standard piercings, geri...

An earnest young co-panelist had just darkly described today's 20 - somethings as deprived of economic opportunity, calling the dream of, say, owning a home «farcical.»

I have mentored, to one extent or another, numerous professionals from earnest young go - getters looking to conquer the world to worried and displaced middle - aged workers looking for safe harbor.

Not exact matches

Neil Howe and William Strauss surveyed young people for their book Millennials Rising (2000); they found America's young to be generally a hardworking, cheerful, earnest, and deferential group.

Now I was a young and particularly earnest devout religious... What was I to think of such words?

In the case of oldsters, the history of Sunday school is likely to be the memory of earnest teachers struggling to hold the attention of the young back when there were fewer distractions — say, in the «20s and 30s.

In Turkey the Church has not disappeared, and a movement, small numerically but earnest, has set in among some of the younger Turks, which, while disavowing the designation of Christian, is intensely loyal to Jesus.

In common with agrowing number of older voters, what young people don't care about is the sort of politics that you and I rather like - the knockabout, the earnest discussions, the thrill of electoral organisation and campaigning.

The drive to make young scientists «specialists» is motivated by an earnest and genuine concern for their success.

Young researchers are supposed to be bright - eyed, bushy - tailed, earnest, and serious.

A native of Boise, the young Wade didn't take up his father's pastime in earnest until he was 14.

While I was young and naive, my question was earnest, and I really did want to find an inner peace.

I'm an ambitious young lady who loves God, family and spontaneity, all I need is an earnest man to share these experiences with.

In this entertaining biopic, we meet an earnest and promising young high school student at the crossroads of faith and doubt and follow him through his first major crusade in Los Angeles in 1949.

Directing pitfalls notwithstanding, these young stars deliver such earnest performances that the audience will find it hard not to be moved by their tale.

Her time in captivity found her bonding with a young, earnest man named Homer (Emory Cohen who played the wonderful Tony in Brooklyn alongside Saoirse Ronan) and others.

This time, the engaging young actor reprises his role as earnest demigod (that is, half human - half god) Percy Jackson in the...

Tom Tyler cuts a fine figure as the caped hero and Frank Coghlan, Jr. is earnest as his young alter - ego, Billy Batson, in the best of all Republic Pictures serials.

Joe agrees but occasionally sneaks away to slum it with his young, aspiring movie - maker friends, including earnest, ambitious and fresh - faced Betty Schaefer (Wisconsin - native Nancy Olson).

If Nicolas Sparks took a stab at the home invasion genre, it might look a little like Labor Day, an atmospheric departure for Juno and Young Adult director Jason Reitman that's a little too earnest and heavy for its own good.

In his directing debut, Cameron Crowe crafts some wonderful young characters, like the earnest mature lovers played by John Cusack and Ione Skye and the lovelorn folk singer played by Lili Taylor.

The last episode of 2010 clocks in with a triple review, as Kurt and Andrew look at David O. Russell's earnest and farcical boxing drama, The Fighter, as well as John Cameron Mitchell's look at how a couple (in this case, Aaron Eckhart and Nicole Kidman) grieve the loss of their young son in Rabbit Hole.

6:00 pm — TCM — The Heiress Olivia de Havilland's second Academy Award was for this film, based on Henry James» novel Washington Square, about an aging woman (in those days, aging meant like «older than 25») forbidden by her father from loving an earnest but non-socially-equal young man.

Ben Stiller is on top form, delivering a more earnest and contained performance than the tightly - wound neurotics he has played in previous Baumbach collaborations (Greenberg, While We're Young).

Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) is an earnest, hard - working, ambitious young man with a ruthless determination to succeed.

Her essaying of young Therese, whose gift of photography and observation, flowers with her earnest youth, but her lack of confidence of her elder soulmate.

They make for a rambunctious cohort: earnest widow Amelia Maugery (Penelope Wilton), crabby postmaster Eben Ramsey (Tom Courtenay), hot young pig farmer Dawsey Adam (Michel Huisman, whom GoT fans will know as Daario Naharis), and two younger women: dauntless Elizabeth McKenna (Jessica Brown Findlay) and kooky Isola Pribby (Katherine Parkinson).

And while the premise of Warm Bodies - that a young zombie falls in love with a living girl and learns to be human again - sounds more than a little twee, the trailer delivers an offbeat, earnest charm that shakes off the ancient shackles of this cashed out genre.