Sentences with phrase «so earnest»

I have precious memories of seeing those little faces, so earnest as they sing happy birthday to Jesus, over the glow of birthday cake candles.

It is, after all, a fillip, where things needn't be so earnest.

He is so earnest about this blatantly alarmist piece of fiction.

The famous Twain quote and the Saint Augustine quote and so many other famous travel quotes — they're just so earnest, aren't they?

They are so earnest, and they work so hard.

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.

«A great story is buried in Wally Lamb's avalanche of a novel, The Hour I First Believed, but only the most determined readers will manage to dig it out... All so earnest and far, far too much.»

This city — so earnest in its embrace of irony and counter-culture that any symbol of mainstream respectability risks cold dismissal — seems an odd location for Buick's introduction of its newest LaCrosse.

Yes, it's preachy at times and many of the characters are oh so earnest, but you'll find yourself rooting for them.

It is a challenging job but a fulfilling one, and his desire to make things right He is so beautifully foiled by Alden Ehrenreich's homely cattle - rustler - cum - Paint Your Wagon style Western movie star, so delightfully out of his depth and so earnest in his desire to please everyone.

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.

But for some strange reason, they are so earnest in this film that these otherwise lame jokes work here.

«Packed to the brim with familiar Marvel flaws but so earnest in it's tonal dissonance, AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR is a remarkable, sometimes frustrating, and endlessly entertaining behemoth of an undertaking, and it's one that will require an immediate revisit.»

Victor Hugo's original novel is not known for its slapstick either (the clue is in the title), yet director Tom Hooper's adaptation is so earnest as to verge on parody.

Gooding, so earnest in Boyz N the Hood, here breaks loose into Ali - like flights of punchy, combative eloquence.

It's like an Ed Wood movie, so earnest and so desperately sure of itself in all its nutty, clueless glory, so obviously flown in from another planet at great expense.

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

That said, Gunther's a really likable guy, and his reaction to the loss so earnest and funny (Oh, shoot!)

Eli was so earnest, and he played earnestly.

Something I love about Paris is how she is always so earnest while still maintaining a constant persona of sassy intelligence and ego.

I loved the premise, the strain of darkness under the jokes, Titus has my heart forever, and Kimmy, well, she is just so believable, so earnest, so real even though the whole thing is utterly unreal.

Since Lord James is so earnest and is not prone to out - of - body experiences until now, can this be real?

Not exact matches

But so far, it's hard to imagine that this earnest red - haired guy with 36 years at the company is a secret revolutionary in a plaid jacket.

Among the pearls of wisdom I've received from my father over the years, one stands out: Get out of debt by age 40 so you can start saving for retirement in earnest.

It takes a very long period of time, so we could have some luck with money that was raised last year, but I'm reminded of the fact that, as an example, Carlin Trend exploration in Nevada began in earnest with the publication of that famous paper, Alignment of Mineral Deposits in Northeast Nevada, in the early 1970s.

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.

Or maybe you are that friend and if so, this is your money type — the earnest ascetic who is frugal to a fault and encourages others to be

So be earnest, and repent.

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.

Please approve my thesis so I can begin my research in earnest.»

Then he went upstairs again and, when they had broken bread and eaten, continued a long earnest talk with them until daybreak, and so finally departed.

Or if it were the youth that, with all the earnest devotion of his soul, fixed his trusting gaze on you, assured that if, you said it, it must be so, and in gratitude, bound by a solemn vow to follow the guidance of your counsel through life; would you dare give him any such counsel?

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.

We all sat around the table — and if an Elder needed to elder, he stood up and did so — but he was not only marked by his depth, wisdom, compassion and love — but his earnest haste — he could not wait to sit down again amongst us and be one of us - all of us at the feet of the Master Builder.

He who loves his dream of community more than Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.»

Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued investigation of the great subject of the Deity.

So far we have only the «earnest» of this Promise.

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

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

«Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than they love the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community, even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial.

He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificialâ $ ¦ God hates visionary dreamingâ $ ¦ â $ (pp. 27f)?

It is the opinion of all, and so far as I dare permit myself to pass judgment it is also my opinion, that it is not the highest thing to enter the monastery; but for all that it is by no means my opinion that in our age when nobody enters the monastery everybody is greater than the deep and earnest soul who found repose in a monastery.

So the Old Testament is not just «background» material for the earnest bible student, in the way that the Dead Sea Scrolls or the writings of the first century Jew Josephus are.

But it can do so only if we become «earnest» about death.

As with so many South Africans, they are gracious hosts as well as witty and earnest conversationalists.

In doing so, he invites critical censure — for the «earnest» and the «traditional» are anathema to the modernist and postmodernist movements in architecture.

«So it always is when men are entirely in earnest.

He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial [Life Together (Harper, 1954), pp. 26 - 27].

he who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial» (ibid, p. 27).

He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.