Sentences with phrase «much earnest»

Ask your real estate agent for advice on how much earnest money you should put down.

The goal of a Realtor is to get as much earnest money out of you as they possibly can.

He or she can tell you how much earnest money you should pay when making your offer.

The man who seeks to bring himself into relationship with God and seeks it with as much earnest zeal as others seek the goods which they may obtain in their several businesses and professions in the ways of the world does not come away empty.

Not exact matches

When thinking about your down payment, note that some home deposits will equal as much as 3 % of your offer amount for an earnest money deposit plus another 20 % in mortgage down payment.

In an age when so much of hip - hop revels in thug life, an earnest warning by rapper J. Cole on the dangers of drugs has proven a runaway success.

People pray for their golf - score, so you would think their prayers during tornados and hurricanes would be much more earnest and heart - felt, yet christians have no more ability to survive natural disaters than the general population.

To suppose that prayer will take the place of earnest thought on the moral life has led to much acceptance of the status quo and hallowing of our own self - centered impulses.

Those who, perhaps out of some earnest motive, abstain too much from food may elicit new vices of excess, such as harshly judging others» motives.

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.

I was such an earnest Christian and it mattered so much to me what God thought.

Who I am is of no concern and my name, Philip, draws much attention from those who troll these waters and lurk for me and focus on me rather than these truths I have learned over decades of earnest and tear - filled pleas for God to show me what this world is all about.

He [Mr. Yesadian] has an unassuming character, consistent and earnest piety, knowledge of divine truth, and the promise of much usefulness as a pastor of a native church... May the time be not distant when many others, as well qualified shall come forward as candidates for the native ministry!

The means he used for revival were «simply preaching, prayer, and conference meetings, much private prayer, and much personal conversation, and meetings for the instruction of earnest inquirers.»

It is important to realize that a very able and earnest attempt is being made by Catholic scholars in this country, with much support from Catholics in western Europe, to change the principles as well as the practice of the Church in this matter.

We have expressed this in the preceding by saying that man was in Error, and had brought this upon his head «by his own guilt; and we came to the conclusion, partly in jest and yet also in earnest, that it was too much to expect of man that he should find this out for himself.

Get impossibly earnest testimonials from all the running backs on the team about how much they love running behind him, plus quotes from his fellow offensive linemen and NFL draft types.

Having another baby was still very much on my mind though so we set about creating baby number seven in earnest and soon enough I found myself pregnant.

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.

Encourage her to sit and try, don't push just yet, and probably in a few weeks you'll have a much better sense whether she's really ready to train in earnest, whether she'll just «get it» on her own... or if it is, in fact, too soon and you'll try again later.

«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.

An upbeat, earnest speech, designed, it seemed to most commentators, to speak to the party as much, if not more, than to the country.

«I think they're coming down much more in earnest in this juncture, not to say that wasn't happening to before, but now it has everyone's attention,» Flanagan said.

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.

Aside from puberty, this is a time when the school environment becomes more impersonal, academic grades are much more public, «being popular» becomes fervently sought after and efforts to separate from parents start in earnest.

He expects it will be a decade or more before ESRU's turbines are ready to be used in earnest in the sea — much more testing must be done, in addition to the environmental impact studies and garnering of support from utility companies.

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.

For all the gloss and floss that accompanies the release of Electric Light, Bay is still very much at home in the earnest ruminations and folk - rocky tones of his debut, only now with higher production values and more bounce to the ounce.

It doesn't come off as a joke about Johnson's cartoonish Superman persona so much as an earnest advertisement for how not to be, in his words, a «candyass.»

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.

An exhilarating update of «Flash Gordon,» very much in the same half - jokey, half - earnest mood, but backed by special effects that, for once, really work and are intelligently integrated with the story.

I was more invested in the realistic plot with the worldly cad and his ambitious caddy, played by suave Chevy Chase and earnest Michael O'Keefe, respectively, and not so much Bill Murray's garbled gopher - hunting.

Critics Consensus: An earnest drama, The Visit gains much emotional power through its fine performances.

Critic Consensus: An earnest drama, The Visit gains much emotional power through its fine performances.

Much as he did on his Method - earnest 2001 made - for - TV James Dean biopic, Franco uncannily reinvents himself in the guise of his subject — this time, for comic, rather than tragic effect.

Too earnest to ironically indulge in the narrative's familiar pulpy beats and too uncertain about the strength of this material to play it straight, Fleischer aims for a muddled middle, jazzing up Beall's faux - hardboiled dialogue with slow - motion shootouts and shaky HD - cam pursuits that only remind us of how much better Public Enemies turned out.

Josef also knows how much he can push Aaron without losing him completely, following unsettling displays of his psychosis with earnest pleas for sympathy.

The prospect of Steven Spielberg doing an Abraham Lincoln biopic threatens a return to the earnest «give us free» slave narrative of Amistad, but the brilliance of Lincoln comes from how much weight it gives to the horse - trading and arm - twisting it takes to achieve political goals.

What's more, he knows enough about the field of parapsychology to ground the story in the context of earnest quasi-scientific theories and philosophical debates that make the most irrational and horrific elements land that much harder.

Though a number of the doctors are rather improbably good - looking, the focus is very much on their work at the hospital as they move from naïve newbies to tried - and - tested veterans themselves, while thankfully retaining a sense of earnest commitment.

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.

I have experienced something similar on a much smaller scale, for when I give friends and other associates my standard introductory «mini-festival» of Hindi popular cinema, the title that consistently connects the strongest is this film — which initially surprised me, considering it's as undiluted an example as any of the very un-Hollywood masala formula: broad, often silly comedy mixed with earnest, tear - jerking sentiment, all peppered with the occasional song and dance over the course of a typically lengthy run time of just over three hours.

The ensuing romance is rife for hot button discussion points and earnest emoting, but its clunky beigeness fails to stir much audience response...

Features one of Cruise's most intense and earnest performances, and I'm reminded of how much I love Crowe's dialogue.

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.

I don't know how you can make humping a fridge or delivering an earnest speech about how much you love to smear mud on your ass more funny than it already is, but Meloni completely adds something to it that's precise and perfect and hilarious.

Despite Rooney Mara's best efforts, there's nothing much about Mary in this earnest attempt to restore the saint's reputation

For much of the film's second half, «Malkovich» is inhabited by John Cusack's character, Craig, and Malkovich doesn't so much do a Cusack impression as simply perform a more wide - eyed, earnest variation on himself, which is absolutely perfect.

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.

Horton has a much more earnest and timeless feel to it.