Sentences with phrase «earnestness get»

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

It is surprising how far this earnestness gets us.

Nguyen opts for a mildly ironic tack - all this communication technology, and we're more disconnected than ever - but his earnestness gets the better of him.

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With its general increase in earnestness — Roger was on a crusade last week, and is on another this week; here comes Mona with her wise maternal zingers; and above all, listen to Freddy Rumsen's Tips For Changing Your Life — the series seems to be committing to the idea that selfish and / or self - destructive people can indeed become selfless and / or get their acts together.

One who has earnestness and inner spiritual resources can let his soul be lifted by such beauty as is present, get along without what is absent, and avoid confusing aesthetic pleasure with the beauty of holiness.

I think honesty and earnestness were qualities people thought they were getting with Barack Obama.

Even when praying with the best of intentions and genuine earnestness, one is apt to «come to» with the startled recognition that somewhere along the way one's mind got off the track!

Red herrings abound narratively and literally, Channing Tatum sells a White House Down dig with adorable earnestness and there's a killer Benny Hill sight gag that I seemed to be the only one in my audience to get (it goes by very quick) and things like this allowed me to appreciate 22 Jump Street's «we're the same but we know it» nature more than I pulled against it.

It gets to throw out some heady (universal) concepts, mock the confused «students» and the pretentious pedagogy of the teachers, while coming to some level of earnestness in the end (It is like a Guy Maddin flick filtered through Henry David Thoreau and shot in the style of Wes Anderson).

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.»

His sci - fi thriller Inception broke through the barrier of earnestness to the best picture category in 2011 and it scored him a second screenplay nod (the first was for Memento) but it looks like he might finally get the ultimate recognition for his next film Dunkirk.

Wahlberg's goofy earnestness has always worked to his advantage in his past roles, and he gets most of the best moments in the movie.

Once the movie gets through explaining the rules of improv with a borderline - embarrassing wide - eyed earnestness, it settles into an exploration of what happens when one person from a tightly knit six - member comedy group gets close to a plum spot on Saturday Night Live (it's called Weekend Live, presumably for permission to speak freely, but the differences pretty much end with the name).