Sentences with phrase «eyed earnestness»

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).

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.

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.

Williams» doe - eyed earnestness also won over a cadre of fans when she was cast as the female lead in the Edward Zwick / Marshall Herskovitz series Relativity in 1996, but the critically acclaimed show lasted only one season.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.»

Brühl brings his usual earnestness to a role that's already too earnest, and a shark - eyed Pike somehow fares even worse, with a flashback love interest doing little to add color to her waxen character.