Sentences with phrase «such earnest»

Once my skin thickened up a bit, once I realized how completely cool the character and author fusion was, I was able to embrace these assumptions for what they were: the ultimate compliment — proof of good storytelling — because the only way fantasy and reality can blend into such earnest beliefs is if the fiction feels real enough for the reader to assume that it had to have been drawn from real life, somehow.

With such earnest attention to detail, and so much detail to attend to, the script gets clunky at points, and the exposition isn't always handled elegantly, particularly in dialogue scenes.

But while that might drive some viewers away, it's presented in such an earnest fashion that I couldn't help getting swept up by this and wanting to see how it plays out.

meme, before gifting him with high - tech sneakers, the line is delivered with such earnest glee that it doesn't even feel out of touch.)

Directing pitfalls notwithstanding, these young stars deliver such earnest performances that the audience will find it hard not to be moved by their tale.

And his wife, yea, she feels herself deeply humbled in comparison with such an earnest and holy man who can thus sorrow for his sin.

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

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Moreover, the equipment was purchased in such a way that panel manufacturing couldn't begin in earnest even if the building had been ready for it.

Since this debate over pipelines began in earnest last Fall, Jason Kenney and others have been calling on the federal government to invoke clause 92 (10)(c) of the Constitution, which allows the federal government to exert authority over infrastructure such as pipelines which, «although wholly situate within the Province, are before or after their Execution declared by the Parliament of Canada to be for the general Advantage of Canada or for the Advantage of Two or more of the Provinces.»

Keeping this scenario in mind, our earnest endeavour is to reach out to such genuinely potential entrepreneurs who may be a fledgling start - up, or a successful business, or anyone with a never - say - die attitude — just to get an insight on how their journey has been until now.

Such education will not always succeed, as for instance there exist people who are unable to acquire a taste for Alexander Pope even after earnest striving, but the method is more likely of success than adverting to a list of beloved aphorisms.

Such inwardness is inexplicable save as one sees Jesus taking the principle of individuality in thorough earnest and conceiving the religious life as rooted inside persons, one by one.

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.

Everywhere even earnest Christians, unconditionally devoted to the teaching of the Church, are quite emphatically in disagreement on such matters, as soon as the attempt is made to pass from general principles to a concrete prescription.

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?

However that being said I trust that such insight is available to anyone who seeks out the Holy Spirit with all earnest.

Men and women started making such inquiries in earnest.

When we recall that the rabbis distinguished 613 different commandments in the law, we can understand why an earnest Jew might ask such a question.

And those who do live the life of the community, seeking to appropriate for themselves its central affirmations, yet unconcerned about the peripheral, secondary, and now and again misleading assertions and practices that have often been associated with those essentials; those who learn gradually to join in its prayers and receive the sacraments, and to read the Bible with open, earnest, yet critical minds; those who endeavor with heart and soul to express in daily life the Christian principle of life «in Christ» — such men and women will find increasingly that they genuinely belong.

For it does not intend to address itself to anyone with whom it would not be able to deal seriously, for the reason that such a man has cut himself off from any earnest consideration of the occasion of the address.

And only some such openness of Christians to other religions will give any fruitful meaning to the present earnest attempts at encounter.

In the face of such compelling figures, the last few chapters of the book, which are devoted to proving in earnest but painful detail why we should make these investments, are almost superfluous.

Now I was a young and particularly earnest devout religious... What was I to think of such words?

The temple cultus, with its sacrifices and offerings and the arrangements for providing sacrificial victims, had become such an elaborate, noisy, and odorous affair that to the earnest young prophet from Galilee the spirit of true worship must have seemed to be lost.

Such a challenge comes home with greater force when put to oneself in earnest self - examination before God than it possibly could through any human moralizing.

Since its endowed income of # 2700 would not allow him to maintain the dignity expected, he secured permission to hold a canonry of Durham along with his bishopric, one of the last cases of the benefice in commendam by which medieval and later Bishops had often profited.22 Phillpotts was an earnest administrator, and fought hard to raise the minimum salary for curates in his Diocese to # 50.23 Such a range of 100 to 1 within honorable incomes in the clerical profession would scarcely be found in our times.

I was delighted to spend time with farmers such as the irascible Joel Salatin of Polyface, the fiery and generous Mike Callicrate of Ranch Foods Direct, the irreverent and determined Greg Gunthorp of Gunthorp Farms, the earnest and warm Guido Frosini of True Grass Farms, the focused and incisive Marina of Circle B Ranch, and the fierce and friendly Julia Smith of Urban Digs Farm.

[4] The newspaper's reputation as a platform for liberal and left - wing opinions has led to the use of the epithets «Guardian reader» and «Guardianista» for people holding such views, or as a negative stereotype of such people as middle class, earnest and politically correct.

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.

THE LURE OF POLITICALLY CORRECT DIETS For some high - minded teenagers, anti-saturated fat dogma may dovetail rather conveniently with pro-vegetarian arguments, 12 particularly because the search for «meaningful moral standards, values and belief systems» is a critical developmental task during adolescence.13 (It should be noted that moralistic claims in favor of vegetarianism often prevent earnest vegetarian teens from coming face to face with underlying farming realities — including the fact that sustainable farming requires enriching soil with animal products such as bone meal and manure.12) Recognizing the fact that adolescent boys also can be preoccupied with physical concerns about weight or athletic prowess, it is perhaps not terribly surprising that a sizeable proportion of teenage boys appear to be persuaded by advice that vegetarianism is a «healthy» lifestyle.

After some basic information about yourself, such as an email address and your age and location, the relationship questionnaire begins in earnest.

is the attempt by too earnest, too literal animation to compensate for such tendencies by indulging in frivolity.

Biggs is painted as an earnest, if deluded man, too restrained by rules and protocol to see the truth, and lacking an education in the school of hard knocks that has made such virtuous men of Hodges and Childers.

I confess I'm slightly nervous about the project — a reworking of «La Ronde» is a tall order for anyone, and neither Meirelles» earnest - if - kinetic drive, nor writer Peter Morgan's dryly disciplined oeuvre, necessarily promise the playful, passionate touch needed for such a project.

Where American horrors tend to provide us with earnest cops and wise religious figures, this film (like an earlier, non-horror South Korean thriller, Memories of Murder) offers no such comforting protagonists or confident insights to the supernatural origins of the inexplicable events.

So when Beatriz is dining with a group of «richies» and brings up such matters for conversation, the eye - rolling starts in earnest.

Interminably earnest and dull scenes featuring the morose Yoakam jar against the over-the-top eccentricities that sometimes appear in the same scene, such as a sidekick who likes wearing dresses to the ridiculous sight of Thornton himself turning in a cameo in a long blond wig.

Pat is trying to catch his wife in the act of adultery, while Jeff attempts to buy wood glue and / or prove the cosmic interconnectedness of the universe — yet the actors» earnest and understated performances fail to find the comic nimbleness that such larger - than - life material demands.

Spader is somnambulently morose; Bassett's earnest intensity seems ridiculously out of place for a piece of cheese such as this; the bland Facinelli exhibits no air of menace whatsoever; Lou Diamond Phillips, Wilson Cruz, and Robert Forster (who receives third billing for a five - minute part) simply go through the motions; and a clueless Tunney makes you wonder if she could possibly be the same person who gave such a bravura turn in 1998's Niagara Niagara.

Educational leaders took notes with earnest interest from such speakers as they told them they would need to know where the nearest bomb sniffing dog kennel was in case of an emergency.

As such, we offer them earnest thanks for placing the education of children first and encourage the rest of America to, this week, seek out and recognize those teachers whose efforts mean so much.»

Nor is it surprising that even the best of teachers in such circumstances have scant energy left to cultivate the learning — or the potential — of exceptionally bright, earnest, and well - behaved pupils.

Still, even after hearing such negative opinions of traditional publishing, I persisted in my projected course: I'd planned to start querying in earnest at the end of September and I didn't deviate.

You'll typically use a third - party escrow agent such as the title company, to hold your earnest money deposit in an escrow account.

Escrow agents exist to monitor and help fulfill the conditions of the sale, such as the buyer's «earnest money» deposit for a percentage of the sale price.

The contingency clause should also prevent you from losing your earnest money deposit in such a scenario.

You'll typically want a third party escrow agent such as the title company to hold your earnest money, and you'll never want to directly give the seller your money.

If you have a real estate agent, they will assist you with this, and the offer should contain the following items: a complete legal description of the property, the amount of earnest money, your down payment and finance details, the price you are offering, your proposed closing date and move - in date, the length of time the offer is valid, and any other details of the transaction, such as if appliances are included in the sale, etc..

You will need cash for your earnest money, your down payment, your closing costs, and some additional items, such as a home inspection, application fee, and credit check.

Uncentered, unattached and featuring constantly evolving parameters, these objects were primarily artistic experiments that expressed an earnest belief in the utopian power of art at a precise time when the West's reigning art ideology had definitively abandoned the idea of utopia as such.