Sentences with phrase «earnestness about»

They have an earnestness about them that plays out like what it is (children pretending to be big), but I don't know that children asked to be big would act any differently.

Finally, earnestness about death can teach us about the wise use of time, about the difference between what Kierkegaard calls «accidental» and «essential» activities.

That paraphrase, perhaps inadvertent, of what the Bible prescribes as the devotion due to God alone suggests an earnestness about ideas that might seem to preclude the intellectual highjinks, pervasive gossip, and boozy fun that, Podhoretz leaves no doubt, was also very much part of the life of The Family.

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

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She's an engaging writer and guest, willing to talk about her personal life in ways that disarm heavy topics with earnestness and transparency.

The reviewer can tell the reader that in Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions he is to think along with the author about what it means to seek God, how the «resolution of duty» that ought to be present in marriage transforms romantic love into love that conquers everything, and how the awareness of one's mortality, of the certainty of death, of «death's decision» enhances earnestness in life.

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

On the contrary, he looks upon this easiness as a temptation and a snare and he learns earnestness in order as an individual to be concerned about his eternal responsibility.

Being a Reformed (Calvinist) theologian of considerable earnestness, McGrath's essay understandably dwells at length on the formula «justification by faith alone,» and related questions about, for instance, the connection between justification and sanctification.

A humble herdsman of Tekoa, he appeared one day at the royal shrine of Bethel and, with a religious earnestness that moves us even yet as we read it, began to denounce the spiritual shallowness, the exploitation of the poor by the rich, the bribery, sexual indulgence, and general moral laxity which he saw all about him.

The New Testament's later development of an international and inter-racial faith was the logical conclusion of Jesus» way of thinking about God, and so notable was this contribution that he has been credited with being the first one in history to take monotheism with thoroughgoing moral earnestness.

When asked what he and his fellow pacifists would do about it, he replied, with characteristic smiling earnestness: «Blow it up!

But there's something special about Fitzgerald's; her voice brings out both the comedy and the earnestness of the lyrics.

Debuting director Michael Gracey and screenwriters Jenny Bicks (2014's «Rio 2») and Bill Condon (2006's «Dreamgirls») unapologetically burst with heart - on - sleeve earnestness and sentimentality in a passion project about leading with your heart, making dreams a reality with pennies to your name, and proving 19th - century society wrong and pleading for acceptance in the most glorious of ways.

God's Land, Preston Miller's alternately languorous and engaging film about a Texas - based Taiwanese cult awaiting the end of days, walks a fine line between satire and earnestness, but the project...

It's the earnestness that simultaneously damns it and saves it; Red Dawn is an ugly bit of propaganda about the chimp - ness of the man - monkey, but this man - monkey sort of digs it.

Gleeson plays a Galway policeman who really doesn't give a crap about his job, and spends most of his time on the first case we see ridiculing his young new partner, both for his earnestness and because he's from Dublin.

Speaking as a believer who has often pondered that and other dispiriting questions about why evangelical Christianity has been so readily co-opted by conservative politics, I'll confess that the heaviness of Schrader's moral inquiry and the earnestness of his provocations were right up my alley.

And after the standing ovation, we were left with the very James Franco — esque revelation that making art about great bad art doesn't necessarily mean you have to lose the earnestness and humanity that made the bad art so compelling.