Sentences with phrase «like earnestness»

So when another regular collaborator, Todd Haynes, asked him to score the earnest and decidedly un-ironic «Wonderstruck,» Burwell wrote something that, «in terms of things like earnestness, just raw emotional sincerity, it is probably as far as I've gone,» he said, «because that's just not the genre that I'm typically asked to assay.

These values, like earnestness and integrity, are cultural concepts that Cunningham argues have long - term economic value.

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So he decided to take a chance on a sprite - like 15 - year - old whose songs delighted him with their intensity and earnestness.

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.

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.

The Final Year may feel like a fly - on - the - wall production, but there's an element of careful curation in the personalities and events shown that undercuts some of their earnestness.

She's like a hipster Mary Poppins and Davis lets her spirited earnestness boil from every pore.

They have an earnestness about them that plays out like what it is (children pretending to be big), but I don't know that children asked to be big would act any differently.

by Walter Chaw A little like Neil Diamond, Kevin Costner is an anachronism whose earnestness has landed him in Squaresville when the tragedy is that with a little tweaking in perspective, his peculiar brand of old - school earnestness might have his contemporaries looking upon him with more admiration than mirth.

If someone deliberately made a film like The Room without earnestness and sincerity it wouldn't continue to find audiences for as long as Tommy's film has and it wouldn't be nearly as much fun.

But the film doesn't seem to have been well - liked at the festival, and while Matteo Garrone's Dogman wasn't exactly a cause célèbre either, its central performance, by Marcello Fonte, offers a palatable showcase for put - upon schmuck earnestness.

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...

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).

by Walter Chaw Walking a fine line between nostalgia and regret, irony and earnestness, Philip Noyce's The Quiet American, adapted from the novel by Graham Greene, is a lovely film that captures, like Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, the delicate balance between romance in the immediate foreground and the backdrop of war and politics.

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.»

The character's introduction in Captain America: Civil War (more on that later) is built upon here as the film does a fantastic job of showing audiences Peter's teenage earnestness that it makes it feel more like a coming - of - age film than a superhero blockbuster.

Like his character Michael Scott, he brings the awkward - loser - idiot with enough earnestness to make him strangely real and likable.

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.

Squirrel Girl can be a lot of fun, and I really like her total earnestness.

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?

There's an earnestness at the Supper Club, the artist working through conceptual and painterly dilemmas, processing semi-recognizable portions like a bored tween mixing the flavored foams at a trendy, yet politically savvy molecular gastronomy joint.

Express your earnestness with statements like «Thank you for taking the time to review my application.