Sentences with phrase «like earnest»

Now you hear about things like earnest money, closing costs, escrow, and title insurance and you're not quite sure what they all mean.

And like earnest money, $ 100 may be «standard» as an option fee, but it's all negotiable.

The certainty of Newman's public voice, like his earnest letters to the press, sounds far in the past.

While Paper Mario is its own thing and has even spun off into platformers and sticker extravaganzas, the Mario and Luigi series has always felt like an earnest spiritual successor to the original Mario RPG on the SNES.

Sometimes off - road demonstrations are overly contrived, but this seems like an earnest test of the Evoque's water - fording abilities.

Some lengthy making - of documentary material hands out the occasional insight, but it's aggressively edited and feels less like an earnest peak into game development and much more like a marketing material for a game you've already purchased.

In his directing debut, Cameron Crowe crafts some wonderful young characters, like the earnest mature lovers played by John Cusack and Ione Skye and the lovelorn folk singer played by Lili Taylor.

Mrs. Erlynn needs to have an air of slightly insouciant mystery; as Hunt plays her, she's like an earnest speech therapist in»30s shoulder pads.

Dave seems like an earnest kid with a terrible, hilarious malady that would have made for a boring, miserable childhood.

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Like a lot of the best work you see at Cannes, it was an earnest effort to erase the distinction between art and science in the honest pursuit of results.

«I feel like people in their early - to mid-20s are very earnest.

Like those fathers, «Ant - Man» is a flawed, yet earnest attempt to win over those who might not believe in it.

In person, McDonald is earnest and friendly — he remembers names and likes to lunch with lower - level employees at every stop he makes around the world — yet a bit uncomfortable.

The earnest belief that one could live forever or something like it changes this math.

More stomach - churning sessions may be ahead as earnings season starts in earnest this week, with giants like JPMorgan Chase, Google, and General Electric (among many, many others) set to unveil their third - quarter results.

Cinda, a soft - spoken woman with earnest eyes, who like most women in the country wears her long black hair in two braids down her back, had three little girls and several acres of land to tend when her husband abandoned the family.

While some denominational leaders will continue to present a hyper - literal interpretation of Genesis 1 as non-negotiable Christian truth, organizations like The Biologos Forum will pick up steam as thoughtful, earnest Christians try to reconcile their faith with Darwin's theory of evolution.

Hamann's humor consists so much in ludicrous involutions of thought and language, and in the cumulative effect of one absurdity heaped atop another, and in the almost sweetly earnest obliviousness of a voice like that of a holy fool that one must almost entirely immerse oneself in his imaginative world in order to enjoy the fruits of his comic genius.

One could only hope that either found themselves stuck in a tree in a sack, and like the truth of the Grimm's folk tale, both would replace themselves with the earnest truth seeker.

Granted, perfection is unattainable, but like the holy grail it must be sought, if for no other reason than that the quest itself is a goad, pushing the earnest...

But as the phenomenon spreads and develops within a Mankind in process of becoming adult, what once looked like a game is suddenly found to be deadly earnest.

Granted, perfection is unattainable, but like the holy grail it must be sought, if for no other reason than that the quest itself is a goad, pushing the earnest reader to the library or the bookstore.

The Church, like ISIS, is a harshly judgmental organization with a particularly reprehensible intolerance of earnest folk seeking to love in the manner they see fit.

Like most earnest «cue in the state, the emphasis at Dreamland is on the quality of the meat and slow and thorough cooking, which both tenderizes and infuses the food with a smoky, sweet tang.

If you've made it to the bottom of my long winded message for alkalizing I congratulate your earnest desire to make a difference in your health and I promise I will inspire you with my passion for sharing weekly alkaline health information and deliciously beautiful recipes that will make you feel like a million bucks!

I can't vouch for what the Guy (pun intended) is like in person, but he seems like a cool enough dude, with an earnest interest in bold, spicy, flavorful food that regular, no - nonsense joes like me can appreciate.

Unlike some of the other players that have left Arsenal because they think the grass is greener on the other pitch or more obviously due to the lure of the pound / euro, I think Alexis Sanchez would actually like to stat at Arsenal and ply his trade in honest and earnest fashion that he does.

He also failed to connect with fans, with his endlessly earnest slogans making him sound like he was in denial.

When he scores — 28 goals in the regular season and one in the Sharks» five - game ouster of the St. Louis Blues in the first round — his earnest face brightens like the northern lights.

The Cosmos» home schedule, in fact, will have as many international meetings on it as NASL league games, and the team hopes to compete in Copa de Libratores de América, the Western Hemisphere's Club Championship, in which it would face in earnest clubs like Argentina's Boca Juniors and Brazil's Fluminense.

In a highlight film of his career that was shown at a testimonial dinner for him last year, Marino appears on camera, full frame, with a few earnest opening remarks about how he'd like to be remembered as a team man who worked as hard as he could, and as a team leader, etc..

He seems earnest when he tells me he likes me, and he appreciates that I've recorded everything on my phone so I can't twist his words.

@gooner1000 it's my earnest hope that Wenger would give me an opportunity to turn around and say how f *** king great the team is, hell I'll even gladly take the shit AKBs alone know how to spew... But remember it should only follow consistent great performances, scrapping lucky one goal wins against mediocre teams like anderletch, westbrom etc don't count.

As much as I don't like winter, it'll still be another month or so before I start to get antsy about wanting to get back out in my landscape garden in earnest.

In common with agrowing number of older voters, what young people don't care about is the sort of politics that you and I rather like - the knockabout, the earnest discussions, the thrill of electoral organisation and campaigning.

«This job of comptroller,» said Stringer, in a speech earnest enough to suggest that it might not have been entirely scripted, «I'd like to think I made it cool around the country.»

As a speaker, he's hyperactive and a bit earnest, but they like that sort of thing in the Lib Dems (remember Paddy) and if he holds his seat (majority 267) we'll be hearing much more from him.

The eternal teenagers of politics, led by a man resembling an earnest sixthformer, they are like a vast hot - air balloon, floating dangerously close to cloud - cuckoo land.

Unlike some brain regions, which have been swallowing up earnest grad students like quicksand for decades without yielding a clue to their functions, the hippocampus is well - explored territory.

The fossils form such a neatly graded series, getting less and less ape - like and more and more human as they get closer in time to the present, that the most earnest creationist can do little more than muddy the waters by inflating and distorting the existence of points of disagreement between specialists, or trying to revive long since discredited Homo sapiens specimens once claimed to have been from extremely ancient deposits.

So it looks like Oisin Biotechnology, seed funded last year by the Methuselah Foundation and SENS Research Foundation to bring a senescent cell clearance therapy to market, now has earnest competition.

When I started exercising in earnest, I wore baggy yoga pants and a loose t - shirt to hide any evidence of what my body actually looked like.

I don't know why I'm standing like Napoleon Dynamite but I do know that wearing a gold mock neck underneath this particular going out top plus a pair of old Levi's (I think I'm ready to retire mom jeans) makes me feel like a fairly earnest version of myself.

As much as I don't like winter, it'll still be another month or so before I start to get antsy about wanting to get back out in my landscape garden in earnest.

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In addition, the DVD includes numerous featurettes: «The Last Ride: The Story of The Missing» (with emphasis on its differences from most Westerns, that is, «It's not about cattle or land» and features strong women characters); «New Frontiers: Making The Missing» (featuring earnest declarations of mutual respect among the cast and crew); «The Modern Western Score» (with Horner); «Casting The Missing» (in which Eric Schweig, who plays the villain Chiden, observes, «This guy is like a hate junkie.

It's like an Ed Wood movie, so earnest and so desperately sure of itself in all its nutty, clueless glory, so obviously flown in from another planet at great expense.

Whatever complaints I might have, I'd take [its] earnest errors and hard - won rewards over the bombastic self - glorification of other feel - good fiascos like Antwone Fisher or The Emperor's Club any time.

This may seem like a piddling quibble, but if you want women to trust that you have made an earnest effort to dissect a woman's psyche, don't just assume you know the details.

Because a specific tone isn't established, earnest moments come off as insincere, deep moments seem like they're supposed to be a joke.