Sentences with phrase «overly earnest»

It is almost natural to feel overly earnest when submitting a resume for accounting coordinator position, as a job seeker is looking forward to a future of settling into one's dream job.

Overly earnest ballads that set your teeth on edge.

Amid those screams, individual voices sounded overly earnest — even voices as clear and challenging as that of Cindy Sherman.

Over the course of nearly two and a half hours, the three supporting players — plus endearing, though overly earnest, Jennifer Hudson in the new role of Carrie's assistant — meander in and out, often dropping from sight for long periods, then suddenly reappearing to provide a convenient plot point or punny quip.

The New Zealand director who made hilarious vampire flat - share movie What We Do in the Shadows and funny, quirky, coming - of ager Hunt for the Wilderpeople has brought wit and charm to the sometimes overly earnest Thor sub-franchise.

But Ms. Hawke in particular is overly earnest, never mind obvious.

The overly earnest movie falls below the rich ambiguities that Keaton brings to the part, resulting in a measured drama so restrained it sometimes underserves the material.

I'm overly earnest even for a seven - year - old so I dance when everyone else dances, I know all the words.

Even the mildest display of male aggression is a sign of being overly hopeful, overly earnest or politically un toward.

It's always filled with a lot of hope and gratitude and expectation because I'm overly earnest.

And, at the risk of sounding overly earnest, there's passion for the work: digital marketing services for healthcare firms, among other things.

Not exact matches

Each cast member sends themselves up perfectly — Rogen as the noncommittal, avoidant slacker, Baruchel as the uppity hipster actor who pretends he's «above» LA, the sanctimonious and overly - nice Hill, the earnest but buffoonish Robinson, the misanthropic McBride, and so on.

To that end, I was actually relieved to see a degree of restraint in his usual tics in Man of Steel; overly - slick slow - motion speed - ramping antics normally attributed to him are gone, replaced with an earnest if hurried style that feels like an amalgam of several influences.

The Exorcist - Lite with a Hebrew twist, The Possession is an earnest attempt at a family drama masquerading as a horror movie, one that is ultimately rendered toothless by overly familiar tropes and a emasculating PG - 13 rating.

It doesn't help that he's forced to spout inanities («I want to write plays about human life»), but his line readings are so earnest and overly pronounced that it feels like he's just joined a small - town am - dram company and this is his first performance.

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

It's so overt and bordering on being overly sentimental but, like nearly all similar occasions, Yakuza gets away with it because all it ever does is be earnest.

I realize that we had the roof inspection done after the inspection period closed and am not overly optimistic of recovering our earnest money.