Sentences with word «earnestness»

But, in the various dicasteries — as the congregations and other offices are called — the atmosphere is one of earnestness of purpose in serving the pope.

You write with earnestness about why this particular school is a perfect fit for you and then send that identical essay to six other schools.

Since our leaders did not have the sensitivity to feel the moral earnestness of literally millions of European and American people, it is legitimate to ask how sensitive they are to the moral issues themselves.

One thing leads to another, as things will do in a film, and the tribe's frustrated innovator, Dug (voiced with suitable earnestness by Eddie Redmayne) finds himself in the invader's city, surrounded by the wonders of early civilization, and suddenly realizing that the paintings left behind by his ancestors were about soccer, not hunting rabbits.

Despite the importance of the case, the level of SEC earnestness about its investigation into Deutsche remains in doubt.

But if it is moved any closer to him, so close that it is presented in dead earnestness as a demand upon him, then the self - preservation instinct of the natural life is aroused to such an extent that it becomes a regular fury, as happens through drinking, or as they say, a furor uterinus.

The effects will be there whether realized or not in greater quietness and calm, greater earnestness of effort, greater stability and strength.

On cable, Vera Farmiga's unhinged Norma Bates may be the draw to «Bates Motel,» but it's the nicely cast actors around her (Freddie Highmore, Max Thieriot, Olivia Cooke, Nestor Carbonell) who provide a context that straddles the line between earnestness and seediness, one in which her behavior almost approaches normality.

Complete earnestness in the service of a loony premise is the pair's métier — I've been saying that SNL would be well - served to just give these guys five minutes to do whatever they want each week, and this is exactly what I had in mind, as Mooney's office drone stands up to Bennett's office fast guy with the help of Ronan's winsomely inspirational coworker.

And the innate sense of goodness that Reynolds brings to his nomadic role borders on the magical, his million - dollar smile threatening to undo the flyover earnestness at the heart of this wistful film.

Bring It On does show some of the fiercer competitive aspects of cheerleading (enough to rival any sport) but all the actors display a genuine earnestness which comes across in their performances.

How does farming simulation role playing game Stardew Valley's emphasis on earnestness, community, and peacefulness promote a culture of kindness that can push back against animal exploitation?

Might Sarah Paulson's earnestness get her an awaited first nomination or is she more of a crucial bit player?

Kirsten Gillibrand has a soft voice that takes on a certain earnestness when she gets angry.

But herewith a bunch of my favourite Venns (and a bit of earnestness toward the end).

For leading man Matthew McConaughey, it's an inexplicable passion project that, if the length and soggy - eyed earnestness of his multiple monologues are anything to go by, he presumably imagined would reap him further Oscar glory.

Would an American developer like Vicious Cycle pile on the cheese a little too knowingly and damage the B movie earnestness of the original games?

In a sermon aptly called «Self - Denial, the Test of Religious Earnestness,» he warned his congregation:

You have to assign some honest and trustworthy person to it who will do the work with full earnestness and commitment.

Madison Wolfe is great as the young girl at the center of the haunting, but the film wouldn't work without Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, who play the real - life ghost hunters with such earnestness that it lends credibility to the material.

Mr. Penn seems a bit more uncertain, burrowing with his characteristic earnestness into a role that hardly exists.

Unmotivated behavior and a clumsy earnestness make this a disappointing misstep from a normally reliable cast and director.

Goodwin leads the way with Judy, whose earnestness could come off sickly sweet in the hands of a lesser voice actor.

First, the brand's identity is so entrenched in feel - good earnestness that it would be almost impossible to really tarnish it.

Not surprisingly, arrogant individuals are drawn to companies that value false bravado over a humble earnestness to learn and grow.

So when another regular collaborator, Todd Haynes, asked him to score the earnest and decidedly un-ironic «Wonderstruck,» Burwell wrote something that, «in terms of things like earnestness, just raw emotional sincerity, it is probably as far as I've gone,» he said, «because that's just not the genre that I'm typically asked to assay.

Eternity asks solely about faithfulness, and with equal earnestness it asks this of the king and of the most wretched of all sufferers.

Yet busyness places its most weighty emphasis upon the frills, the capacity to please, and looks upon earnestness as nothing at all.

Earnestness means making the connection between death and me, to know that I will die.

Let us consider the Good, where all is on a more perfect plane, where earnestness and truth are the innocent fancy of beautiful thought.

The soundtrack's full of 90s hits from Pulp, Primal Scream, The Housemartins and more, while Steven Price's orchestral score actually has quite a bit of refreshing earnestness to it — the 90s pop songs solidify the nostalgia - comedy part of The World's End, while the eerie electronic sounds and intense orchestration of Price's score help immensely to sell the action scenes and drama.

Jürgen Klopp teased, all mock earnestness before Liverpool's visit to the Etihad.

With its handheld camerawork, its use of natural light, and its keen, unaffected performances, the movie avoids being the saccharine earnestness of Hollywood movies about family.

He tells his host, with seeming earnestness, «It was a very good conference, Stuart.

Even when church officials — who, contrary to legend, approved of Copernicus's findings — asked him, according to Repcheck, «with the utmost earnestness» to publish his book and offered to pay his expenses, Copernicus refused.

Played with his usual earnestness by Mark Wahlberg, Micky is an amateur boxer in the mid -»90s in Lowell, Mass., an economically depressed dump 30 miles from Boston.

Screenwriter Lorene Scafaria (the similarly fey «Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist») is over her head in her feature directing debut, unable to establish a consistent tone in a movie that flirts with black comedy, satire, romantic comedy and touchy - feely earnestness without really delivering any of them.

Burning brighter is Scarlett Johansson, whose Black Widow has fun chipping away at the Captain's old - school earnestness and trying to fix him up with a date.

To cap it all off, Chris Evans took what could have been a one - dimensional role and imbued it with enough earnestness to transform his character into a pillar of the MCU.

«Matt Damon is a constant churn of gee - whiz earnestness, righteous indignation, nervous exasperation and self - aggrandizing swagger as Whitacre,» I wrote.

Accusations swirling in the air, well - rehearsed earnestness from Lotus's visionary saviour / deluded villain (delete according to preference) in press interviews, the spectre of a Chinese takeover threatened by a local MP, the rumours that Lotus F1 owners Genii Capital might just nab it from under their noses, the cringeworthy press releases and the storm of passionate support for the badge on Twitter, Facebook and a trillion internet forums...

Those expecting something along the lines of Husson's debut feature «Bang Gang» will be surprised by its old - fashioned earnestness, and to be fair, it's hard not to be intimidated by the burden of representing the extraordinary Kurdish female forces who've been such a crucial element in the fight against ISIS in Iraqi Kurdistan.

To del Toro's credit, the pairing never feels gross in the slightest because he approaches their love with a disarmingly tender earnestness.