Sentences with phrase «earnestness of»

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.

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.

Deploying the earnestness of a believer, an avant - garde sense of typography, and a collagist's wit, Sister Corita (1918 - 86) mashed together words and slogans from advertising, the Bible, philosophy, poetry, and lyrics, producing hundreds of confrontational, inspirational prints on themes of individual empowerment and social justice.

She found the earnestness of much feminist art extremely oppressive; her recent work reveals that a playful irreverence is important for her in addressing serious issues.

If then, as both sides have it, politics requires the earnestness of a detective story, first the facts.

The Earth Defense Force 2 lines are also mostly serious, but with just a hint of cheese, to recall the sheer whole - hearted earnestness of old classic low - budget sci - fi.

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?

With authenticity and empathy, Donovan gracefully drifts from Sandberg's story through the experiences of others, her voice ringing with the earnestness of the text, to communicate a profoundly moving message of hope and strength.

She has the earnestness of Supergirl down, but she's mostly displayed all the confidence of a damp dishrag.

Miss Sloane is trapped somewhere between the earnestness of its political convictions and the cynicism of its central character.

Frank Capra made magical comedies where we believed in the goodness and earnestness of his players.

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.

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

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.

Much of what made Captain America: The First Avenger work was the way it fully embraced the bygone era and dogged earnestness of Captain Steve Rogers.

It seems like only seconds ago that we were greeting The BFG and the breast - beating earnestness of The Post, and now the director comes...

Cavill does a decent job of capturing the Christlike earnestness of Superman, but his chiseled, Justin - Kirk - on - HGH look doesn't have the kind of humor necessary to make the character all that watchable for me; for the most part, I found him more of a bore than I wanted.

The earnestness of it all has its own appeal.

The earnestness of the characters» platitudes is undoubtedly well - intentioned.

It has a terminal case of the cutes crossed with the labored earnestness of a disease - of - the - week melodrama.

Finally for all the film's ridiculousness — enshrined in that cheesy - as - cheddar prologue spoken by Mako — Milius resists the temptation to play the silliness self - consciously (as say Stephen Sommers would), but revels in the earnestness of Conan's personal quest for revenge against Thulsa Doom.

Usually, the older women won't date him until he initially shows the earnestness of his affectionate desire for her.

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

The book was clearly a product of its time — parts of it still read with the overheated earnestness of late -»60s millenarianism.

He has «nailed it to the cross» that we might see both our guilt and His even greater mercy; the earnestness of His holy will and the even greater earnestness of His fatherly love.

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

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.

So, my listener, turn your attention now to the occasion, while consciousness of sin sharpens the need until it becomes the one thing necessary; while the earnestness of this holy place strengthens the will in holy determination, while the all - knowing One's presence makes self - deception impossible, consider your own life!

It is a church which has lost the distinctive note and the earnestness of a Christian discipline of life and has become what every religious institution tends to become — the teacher of the prevailing code of morals and the pantheon of the social gods.

I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others.»

He knew by his cleverness exactly what his frivolous people needed, in order that they should not simply take the earnestness of the Good in vain, and thereby be led to pay the wise man a good deal of money as a reward for having deceived them.

And so we hope to temper the sweated earnestness of the battles of the earthly city, knowing that this is not the city that abides.

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.

Even as Paul compared the earnestness of the Corinthians with that of the Macedonians, he ultimately was comparing their love with that of the Master.

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.

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.

I am happy to add that such blatant tendentiousness is relatively rare in the ICEL translation, perhaps because the translators, whatever the earnestness of their political ideals, respect the poetry of Psalms too much, lavishing imaginative energy, despite the lapses, on conveying its vividness in English verse.

She says she's beginning to doubt the earnestness of my professions of love.

For the exalted earnestness of the Eternal wishes neither the commendation of the majority nor the commendation of eloquence.

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.

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

Boehmermann, they said, maintained that he had sought to exaggerate to the extent that «the lack of earnestness and the lack of any seriously intended connection to the personal honor of (Erdogan) were supposed to be immediately evident to every listener.»

Only a handful of people close to Mr. Trump understood the depth of his interest in the presidency, and the earnestness with which he eyed the 2016 campaign.

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.

We exposed the»80s» illusions with a sense of detached irony, and came to hold sentimentality and earnestness with skepticism.

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.

As Professor Alfred Whitehead puts it: «The result was that with passionate earnestness they gave free rein to their absolute ethical intuitions respecting ideal possibilities without a thought of the preservation of society.»

The classic American theme of self - improvement stands out prominently, as does faith in education, and an evangelical streak of earnestness that runs throughout the American saga....

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.

(Isaiah 5:16) Then, in contrast with this view, having described the loose and cynical ways in which popular thought referred to «the Holy One of Israel,» (Isaiah 5:18 - 19) he went on to announce with vehement earnestness the real meanings of holiness in terms of personal morals and social righteousness.