Sentences with phrase «most earnest»

Counseling is a unique opportunity to confront the overwhelming issues that can block one's most earnest efforts to «do it differently this time».

One could say that after the ill - fated $ 549 iPhone 5c from 2012, the $ 399 iPhone SE has probably been the company's most earnest attempt at cracking the mid-range smartphone market.

But even the most earnest unions require care and caution in the interest of keeping both the romantic and employment relationship in tact.

Under the pressures and tensions of interrogation, it is not uncommon for the most earnest witnesses to give answers that are not entirely responsive.

The fact that you don't complete the bank robbery does not mean the attempt was not made in a most earnest manner.

Or you may not, because not even the most earnest Biennial can overcome forgetting.

He projects the certainty of political art at its most earnest, with photographs of dreary streets that could describe a war zone.

While it's true that this is a comedy game, it is also one of the most earnest game experiences I've ever had.

As stated, Ground Zeroes is the clearest, most earnest attempt at an MGS yet; Snake has to infiltrate a government facility at night to try and save two prisoners.

That being said, I believe the most earnest Metal Gear fans know there are plenty of times the series has gone off the rails.

- Sarah Manguso «Less a novel than a totally new and feathered thing - hilarious, poetic, cheeky, postmodern, I guess, but in the most earnest and emotionally forthright way.

Yet not to confront the challenges of structure and governance in public education in our time is to accept the glum fact that the most earnest of our other «reform» efforts can not gain enough traction to make a big dent in America's educational deficit, to produce a decent supply of quality alternatives to the traditional monopoly, or to defeat the adult interests that typically rule and benefit from that monopoly.

Chalamet delivered the most earnest speech of the evening, dedicating much of it to another winner in the crowd, Paul Thomas Anderson He fervently ran down the list of Anderson movies that changed his life, like Punch - Drunk Love, then clarified that they're not working together on anything — but he would totally be open to it, wink wink.

The Wachowskis — whose follow - up Jupiter Ascending suffered a similar fate as this film — are some of the most earnest, daring and original filmmakers working on a large scale today, their films teeming with more ideas than an entire phase of Marvel films.

Rosenfeld's film focuses on the most earnest of dreams a Brazilian young man: that of becoming a professional soccer player.

Well directed by Crowley (who has an eye for simple period details that elevates the look of things) and tremendously well written by Hornby (who is at his most earnest, but also his most romantic), what really sets Brooklyn apart is the acting.

Here, The Amazing Criswell (Jeffrey Jones), Vampira (Lisa Marie), Tor Johnson (George «The Animal» Steele), and Bunny Breckinridge (Bill Murray) all find not only orbit around Wood's deranged charisma but also immortality in some of the worst, most earnest vanity pieces ever committed to film.

For that matter, indestructible comic creations like George Cole's Arthur Daley in Minder, Nigel Hawthorne's Sir Humphrey in Yes Minister, the Steptoes, Arthur Lowe and co in Dad's Army, John Cleese's Fawlty Towers or Only Fools and Horses insinuate themselves between the cracks of British life far more persuasively than the most earnest television documentary (at which Britain has become world - renowned).

The series, regardless of how it has grown into a giant corporate monster, will always encompass the most earnest part of my childhood.

In one of his best and most earnest roles, Stiller embodies the same brand of beleaguered moral idealism as he did in his own The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (though thankfully he has stronger material to work with here).

The action music is surprisingly lively and boistrous (I say surprising only because Bernstein was 77 when he wrote it, but I suppose that's a fairly silly thing for me to have thought); there's a beautiful love theme, though it appears only very briefly on this album; some amusing comedy music that conforms to Bernstein's old model of scoring comedy as if it were the most earnest of drama; and there's a finale, «Ride the Spider», that will knock your socks off.

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

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.

You could argue that a white person can never truly be woke and they should stop trying to be, and it is absolutely true that even the most earnest and self - aware white people need to tread carefully around the r - word.

The theory goes that, should the programme motion be defeated this afternoon, instead of ten days of debate we could have as many as thirty, which, apart from anything else, is long enough to bore even the most earnest bearded sandal wearing reformist.

Their efforts on behalf of this baby have an exaggerated logic and the most earnest intentions.

They're my first words ever as a sports writer and quite possibly the most earnest words I've ever published on the internet, too.

The stars will likely never align again to throw us all into the most earnest and inspiring version of a rebuild that the sport has ever seen.

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.

84 The task these ministers set before themselves, as they readily admitted, was far beyond their own competency to perform and it demanded not only the most earnest efforts to improve their gifts and the most rigorous budgeting of their time but a constant dependence upon God for success.

At all times the most earnest, the most impressive, and the most fruitful concern for them has been shown by artists.

The literature of the period is permeated with ardent hopes; and indeed at one point they seemed on the point of realization, with all the incredible accompaniments that the most earnest might desire.

Many in the Dutch Reformed Church were critical of the réveil, and partly as a result, some of the most earnest supporters of the réveil seceded and formed the Christian Reformed Church.

By and large, most earnest Christian people — and we must here include the clergy as well as the laity — are not very well equipped in this respect.

In the most earnest sense, God is the critical theatergoer, who looks on to see how the lines are spoken and how they are listened to: hence here the customary audience is wanting.

He was brought up in the Pharisaic school of Judaism and was most earnest in his observance of the Torah or Jewish Law.

«We Were Meant to Live» got lots of radio play, and the tracks on Learning to Breathe were more tuneful, but «Dare You to Move» captured the band at their most earnest, and if you haven't been to a Switchfoot concert and with both hands shot towards the clouds screaming «DARE YOU TO MOOOOOVE» than you did not have a happy childhood.

The trick is cutting through all the things we think we want, the things others tell us we should want, and finding our heart's truest and most earnest desire.

Not exact matches

But while most of the 30,000 entries were earnest, the campaign is perhaps best remembered for the submissions that blamed the Tahoe for global warming or tied it to the war in Iraq.

It's very easy to roll one's eyes at the earnest «we're gonna fix it, for real, this time» proclamations of politicians when history has proven this to be an issue that sits, perennially, maddeningly, pretty low on the priority list of the people most equipped to solve it.

SpongeBob is effortlessly optimistic, and unintentionally goofy, making him one of the most endearing characters of all time, in this earnest and jovial series.

The SPP initiative began in earnest back in 2002 with the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (formerly the BCNI), the most powerful corporate body in the country.

His answers, which often veered deep into the intricacies of fiscal policy and process, were earnest, lucid and, for the most part, easy to understand.

Jockeying to replace the region's most powerful people, including European Central Bank boss Mario Draghi, will begin in earnest in 2018.

In a letter announcing his retirement from the army at the close of the War, he wrote: «I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.»

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.

And yet he was never a wanton irrationalist; Kierkegaard spoke entirely in earnest when he ranked Hamann and Socrates together as «perhaps two of the most brilliant minds of all time.»

I became an atheist after having spent most of my life as a Christian, but when I became engulfed in a fundamentalist group and actually began reading and researching the bible in earnest, I became an atheist.

As usual, missionary activity followed trade, and, even as most evangelical groups remained focused on evangelizing China, some began ministry in earnest in the former «hermit kingdom.»

It began in earnest in October of 2014 with my most popular post ever, Tony Jones on Mark Driscoll: What Came First, the Thug or the Theology?