Sentences with phrase «earnestness into»

With warm nostalgia for Beatrix Potter's classic children's tale,» Peter Rabbit» director, producer and co-writer Will Gluck channels the author's earnestness into a sweet film sure...

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

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

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.

She's physically more like how Anne is described in the books, that's for sure — almost other - worldly, alien in her earnestness and her scrawniness and her big eyes that are too much for every adult to look into, always prompting comments on her appearance by the look of her.

Laura Bozzone's Celia is a little heavy handed on the earnestness early in the play, but her portrayal mellows alongside her character into a spirited warmth and charm as the story progresses.

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.

In the meantime, Cam digs himself further and further into a hole as Marty's earnestness and eagerness starts to win fans.

Hayek's Beatriz is quiet and watchful while John Lithgow's performance as the developer is powerful and brash, as both bring an undercurrent of earnestness that avoids tipping into caricature.

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.

The actors alternate between heavy earnestness and jokey familiarity, but they exist mainly for the same reason as the tricked - out cars: as bodies to be put into motion.

But it never keeps the energy up, steering into forced visual gags, dull spells of earnestness, and ponderous backstory psychology — the viewer never is quite sure who really did what to whom in the Candy - Bodine love - hate relationship.

It's a way of letting some comic air into the picture's hushed earnestness and single - mindedness, and its slight air of self - importance.

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.

Kyle Mooney (who also co-wrote the film with Kevin Costello) portrays imaginative man - boy James with infectious earnestness, imbuing warmth and humor into James's efforts to make friends and integrate into his new reality.

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.

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).

His assistant, Mika, helps balance out his earnestness with sometimes annoying (but usually charming) personality, and reckless abandon when following Mondo into even the most dangerous of situations.