Sentences with phrase «little earnest»

The fillip's a little earnest today, inasmuch as it actually involves the word insasmuch and, more to the point, deals with a research tool.

It's a little earnest, but I think it's earned.

At first glance, it's a phrase that sounds a little hippy - dippy, a little new - age, and more than a little earnest.

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This is not without justification: many predicted years ago Asian state - owned enterprises would soon be shopping Canada in earnest, yet Ottawa did little to prepare.

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.

Little more than shame and lament and stoke earnest longing for a yet to be realized revolution.

Driving on the Solstice, tuning in to Public Radio, I heard a voice, legitimately trained, a little thin, but earnest; the soprano's every....

Did it ever cross your little mind that I've made plenty of sincere and earnest posts?

The Puritans were earnest folk They had little patience with those who had no depth, no deep conviction, no profound concern with what God was doing in their lives.

One of the things that I have been working on in earnest this year (not a resolution — I don't make resolutions — but a goal) is to be a little more mindful.

I am really making an earnest effort to be a little bit more minimalist these days!

So before it starts in earnest I will be heading out to grab a little heavy cream.

As my engorged and tingling breasts grew in tenderness and my little one cried, salivated, and ate her wrists in earnest anticipation, it seemed that all I could do was satisfy her hunger.

«Last year was the first year the Foundation participated in Giving Tuesday in earnest, although we did dip our toes in a little [previously] and receive a few small gifts,» explained SNF's Director of Fundraising Janet Hedrick.

«We all felt it was little more than a public relations exercise filled with people that were earnest but didn't know very much,» Murphy said.

Now Miliband is grinning - he is so earnest he doesn't come across as a bully, just a very naughty little boy...

But when budgets are squeezed, as they are now, municipal leaders often seek wage or benefit concessions, which leave unions with little incentive to come to the bargaining table and negotiate in earnest.

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.

They are the funniest, most earnest little people at this age.

The last shot was probably one of my faves from our trip, and caused multiple cabs to pull over in earnest, and I felt a little guilty then waving them off.

A little cliché, but he seems earnest.

It's extremely earnest and more than a little corny, but there's an innocence about it that makes it kinda irresistible.

Bahrani's earnest, didactic style is occasionally strident, his points about the foreclosure crisis a little loud at times.

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.

Ron is their ever dependable pal, and Harry, always a little distant, is the earnest innovator.

Beyond its best little moments, the movie is addressing a serious issue, and it feels awfully churlish to complain that its earnest depictions of soldiers in psychological pain isn't novel enough, or that Koale's performance is a little shakier than Teller's, or that the movie doesn't have much to say about the Iraq War in particular, or that it eventually tries to pass off a lack of resolution as an abbreviated happy ending.

They're led by Olivia (the Pretty Little Liars star Lucy Hale) who is a brunette, so is therefore earnest and pure; she spends her time making YouTube videos to help support Habitat for Humanity.

An earnest, uncomplicated and funny - around - the - edges little romantic comedy about a guy on the rebound but still stuck in psychological orbit of his ex, multi-hyphenate Juddy Talt's movie works best as a showcase for his talents.

This one tried to be a little too earnest in its portrayals of loves and losts, but still a blast to watch.

He is an earnest free spirit, but there is also something a little odd with his behavior.

If Nicolas Sparks took a stab at the home invasion genre, it might look a little like Labor Day, an atmospheric departure for Juno and Young Adult director Jason Reitman that's a little too earnest and heavy for its own good.

Frankie McLaren, as the solemn and earnest little boy seeking his dead twin, takes a character that could have been bathetic and makes him simple and transparent.

The World War II drama «Little Boy» is extremely earnest but it's also extremely heavy - handed in its notions about the transformative power of faith.

And it's filled with terrific performances, including Kristin Scott Thomas as an earnest career politician, Bruno Ganz as a spiritually enlightened (and more than a little smug) Zen teacher, Patricia Clarkson as take - no - bullshit realist, and Cillian Murphy as a vengeful yuppie.

Director David Yates keeps it a little too earnest, Sam Jackson seems like token comedy as a result; Christoph Waltz looks more and more like a one - trick pony; while Skarsgard is a bit earnest too - so the only real oomph comes from Margot Robbie and surprisingly, Hounsou.

Though a little on the cutesy side, McQueen (the grandson of the iconic Steve) is earnest in his role as Jake.

And while the premise of Warm Bodies - that a young zombie falls in love with a living girl and learns to be human again - sounds more than a little twee, the trailer delivers an offbeat, earnest charm that shakes off the ancient shackles of this cashed out genre.

Coverage will begin just ahead of the 42nd annual Telluride Film Festival and in earnest from the San Juans over Labor Day weekend, a little over a decade removed from In Contention's earliest cry into cyberspace.

While Williams goes through his earnest warm - fuzzy motions as the lead (the only really distinctive thing about his work here is how he wears a head - to - toe metal suit for much of the picture), the standout work — and that which goes a long way for one's involvement in the picture — belongs to Embeth Davidtz, who has a dual role as Amanda, a.k.a. «Little Miss,» the youngest daughter in the family that «adopts» Andrew; and Portia, her granddaughter.

The script tends to be a little too talky at times, pretending to be a more clever than it actually is, but it still retains a playful quality as people begin backstabbing each other in earnest for a bigger share of the money.

, a rich parody of a genre that could use a little spoofing, i.e., earnest dance movies in the vein of High School Musical, Flashdance, and, especially, Save the Last Dance.

And THEN consider that Samuel L. Jackson's film career, in earnest, started a little late (depending on when you mark it, somewhere from 39 - 41 years old, when men usually start getting the really big roles about 10 - 12 years (27 - 31) before that).

,» it's no surprise that «Barry» showcases a keen eye for the little things in depicting both striving actors and hired killers in a pilot that occasionally recalls the best of the Coen Brothers, but what may be unexpected is the earnest heart the show displays with a wryly off - kilter perspective that resists pursuing the easy laughs.

The film finds its footing in the little, earnest interactions, while stumbling somewhat with the larger issues at stake.

«Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me» John 5:39 Although The Simple Gospel is a compilation of articles and essays written by Jon Cardwell while serving as a missionary - pastor in remote bush Alaska (2002 - 2008), the hope behind this little book is to exhort earnest Bible reading, study and meditations among Christians in these dark times; and further, to encourage an eye upon the scriptures from a perspective that is gospel honoring, Christ exalting, and God glorifying.Jon has often said from the pulpit, «The gospel of Jesus Christ is simple; but it's not simplistic.»

After digestion, they come out of my corresponding little cone sounding tiny and earnest and far, far away.

The character of Dellarobia and her children, wonderful and so earnest little Preston, the situations she found herself in as a mother had me chuckling they were so familiar.

OK, but earnest money could be as little as $ 1000, maybe more depending on the purchase price.

Overwatch is earnest, a little goofy, and even though it's more focused on Pixar - style warmth than TF2's slightly darker character humour, it still has that cheesy, superhero appeal.

Grubby little fingers in brown cakes, selfie sticks, earnest pervert songs, cooing, and wobbling — an appropriate anti-hero semi-climax to my week: