Sentences with phrase «earnestness at»

I am always leery of using SLAW to mention the services or product of a particular company, but I have been impressed with the earnestness at which XMLaw focuses on delivering practical solutions for law firms in delivering Intranet solutions to their users using the SharePoint platform (I am currently attending a conference they are sponsoring in Boston for their [primarily) law firm customers; my positive comments on their company have nothing to do with the boat tour of Boston Harbour and the open bar they just sponsored...).

There's an earnestness at the Supper Club, the artist working through conceptual and painterly dilemmas, processing semi-recognizable portions like a bored tween mixing the flavored foams at a trendy, yet politically savvy molecular gastronomy joint.

Not exact matches

In fact, all of the evidence (the genuine earnestness of the couples, the tears, the presence of Madonna, the fact it took place on stage at the Grammys) indicated that this was not satire.

If the new verbalizations of earnestness are causing a stylistic rupture, as I think they are, that may be because the Mad Men writers» room is highly practiced at making these characters go in circles regressively or statically — rather than, as here, progressively.

since in a throng it is of course always difficult to see the individual, difficult to see the trees if one is looking at the forest — then the earnestness of eternity calmly waits.

Nussbaum is not at all afraid of speaking in the classic terms of liberal earnestness: she celebrates «the value of humanity as an end in itself,» she encourages empathy and understanding, broad - mindedness, toleration.

It is indeed earnestness to desire it, but should it not also be earnestness to understand in oneself and in life precisely what is meant by saying that one man accomplishes such an exceptional amount, or that another man seems to accomplish nothing at all.

This is what my friend [Ebby Thacher] suggested I do: Turn my face to God as I understand Him [italics added] and say to Him with earnestness - complete honesty and abandon - that I henceforth place my life at His disposal and Direction forever (Bill Wilson's Original Story, a thirty - four page document I found at Bill's home at Stepping Stones, p. 30, lines 989 - 992).

One man observing Moody in action at this time remarked, «I never saw such high pressure; he made me think of those breathing steamboats on the Mississippi that must go fast or bust: a keen, dark - eyed man with a shrill voice, and a thorough earnestness.»

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.

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

Nevertheless, Cole and his fellow speakers strike a real nerve at these events, evident not only in the huge turnouts but in the pained earnestness of the people in the crowd.

He speaks with an earnestness that belies a tough - guy Boston accent, his shirt open wide at the collar, baggy pants cinched tightly at the waist.

It's the steady corruption of that earnestness, represented by the experience of someone like Hana Eltringham Whitfield, recruited by Hubbard himself to become one of the church's original Sea Org members, that puts the faith at the heart of Scientology into perspective.

It's probably no use trying to convince him, at this late date, especially when his limbs may not be limber, that there's more artistry in his rubber - man goofiness than in his Oscar - bait earnestness.

Writing for The Telegraph, Robbie Collin calls the film «sensational,» and defends it's methods: «Some audience members at Cannes found its unstinting earnestness, big emotions and political charge too much....

West Virginia singer, songwriter and guitarist Brad Paisley has proven himself a wizard at striking a canny balance among earnestness, whimsy, social awareness and party - hearty celebration.

Realism and earnestness are discarded at every point in the film, as Fargeat fashions a cartoon of leering carnage, reveling in her willingness to do whatever she damn well pleases.

Host Seth Meyers brought a mixture of levity and earnestness to his opening monologue, in which he took verbal jabs at Woody Allen, Spacey, and Weinstein, whose absence from the ceremony was glaring in the wake of over 70 allegations of sexual misconduct.

A Glimpse of Hell's saving grace may be Leonard's earnestness, which, taken with Caan's trademark slow - witted burn, produces a fitfully intriguing dynamic at the centre of the story.

It's hard to question Crowe's earnestness, but it's easy to point at the alien remove of this picture and speculate as to whether the mom - dependent Crowe (has anyone checked to see if he's still attached to her umbilically?)

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.

But the film doesn't seem to have been well - liked at the festival, and while Matteo Garrone's Dogman wasn't exactly a cause célèbre either, its central performance, by Marcello Fonte, offers a palatable showcase for put - upon schmuck earnestness.

Matt Damon is a constant churn of gee - whiz earnestness, righteous indignation, nervous exasperation and self - aggrandizing swagger as Whitacre, a wannabe hero with a lovingly loyal wife, Ginger (Melanie Lynskey as the epitome of sixties sitcom housewife and mother), a magnificent house and a blazingly successful career that could all be put at risk by his cooperation with the Feds.

Whereas the early going boasts at least a bit of lighthearted drollness, the film and its copious eccentricities become less charming the further the material veers into serious betrayal - and - forgiveness crises, with verve flagging and Oliver's oddball earnestness and desperation coming across as wan affectations.

Kumail and Emily banter adorably: He's got a cutely rehearsed earnestness, which makes his zingers all the funnier; she's dryly distant early on, carefully guarding her heart, until she suddenly looks at him like he's her first sunrise, saying, «I am overwhelmed by you.»

Hindi film actor Pitobash Tripathy imbues the character with a contagious, wide - eyed earnestness that at once charms and befuddles, while never succumbing to the aforementioned stereotyping.

At the end of the day it was the earnestness of a guy who put himself out there, who made the thing.

At one point, Claire, with all earnestness, asks if anyone knows how to fly a plane, and it's just right in a movie where you expect Leslie Nielsen to walk into the cockpit and say, «Good luck.

They share quick asides, in shorthand, in the way siblings might (Feldstein casually recalls both of their AIM handles; she whispers at one point that she can't wait to introduce him to Saoirse Ronan; they praise each other continually with a sweet but affecting earnestness).

If the recent retrospective at MoMA helped us realise that de Kooning was in on the joke of painting all along (he was neither «abstract» nor «expressionist», and mindful of earnestness as the enemy of painting), then Pensato's survey should be seen as a successful presentation of why that joke still matters.

EMIT: What the Bringback Brought reverses that: it finds Hancock's storytelling at its strongest, but at the potential cost of poaching attention from his painting, and leaving behind a rarer sort of earnestness.

There is no furrowed - brow, student earnestness here however — just an amazing energy and intelligence at work.

Birdcalls is a witty rejoinder to the perceived earnestness that is associated with many of the artists named, acknowledging their mantle while also poking fun at their plumage.

Kierkegaard said «Earnestness is acquired originality» and I hold on to that in making and looking at work that I respect.

Critic Howard Devree remarks, «No one is likely to doubt the earnestness of Jack Tworkov... [he] is willfully crude at times and distorts to heighten his effects... Grimness is to be felt in all his work...» (Howard Devree.

In it you maintain that the earth moves; that the sun occupies the lowest, and thus the central, place in the universe... Therefore with the utmost earnestness I entreat you, most learned sir, unless I inconvenience you, to communicate this discovery of yours to scholars, and at the earliest possible moment to send me your writings on the sphere of the universe together with the tables and whatever else you have that is relevant to this subject...»

I do find the old threads have a certain earnestness and freshness that reflects a more genuine attempt at discourse between sceptical commenters and orthodox climate science.

Because this is a fillip, after all, where I try to avoid earnestness most of the time at least, I'll remind you here of the delightfully silly Monty Python sketch where a publisher has produced a mischievous Hungarian - English phrase book (for which he is brought up before the law — for those of you who need at least a minim of legal stuff in every Slaw post).

Reporting from Briggs LJ's presentation at the recent Westminster Legal Forum, Greene, NLJ consultant editor and senior partner at Edwin Coe, says: «[Briggs LJ] expressed his understanding that IT projects in the courts do not have a great pedigree of success but he proffers that the available budget is large and reflects the earnestness of the government to make this work.

(I admit that I tried this a few times, and while it did not escalate the situation, it did result in some sketchy looking folks laughing at my earnestness.

Moreover, making space for play in the therapeutic environment is good modeling for our clients; it shows them that they can approach their life with earnestness, but still have fun at the same time.