Sentences with phrase «too earnest»

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«The writing is a little too earnest and workmanlike to draw a huge readership - comments are sparse -....

It is just too earnest.

The crackdown was too grim and pushback too earnest.

Heroes of the Storm is the kid who was mocked in high school for being too earnest, too loud, standing out too boldly among the cool kids.

Director David Yates keeps it a little too earnest, Sam Jackson seems like token comedy as a result; Christoph Waltz looks more and more like a one - trick pony; while Skarsgard is a bit earnest too - so the only real oomph comes from Margot Robbie and surprisingly, Hounsou.

Ehrenreich is a bit too earnest and smiley and broad as Solo, but over the course of the film, we see his inherent faith in others slowly drained away.

If Nicolas Sparks took a stab at the home invasion genre, it might look a little like Labor Day, an atmospheric departure for Juno and Young Adult director Jason Reitman that's a little too earnest and heavy for its own good.

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.

This one tried to be a little too earnest in its portrayals of loves and losts, but still a blast to watch.

Worse than too earnest, too literal animation (isn't the beauty of this art form its ability to break free of temporal and spatial restraints?)

All a bit too earnest, despite the seriousness of the subject, with Fonda setting her jaw and stepping into father's footsteps as Tinseltown's very own protector of humanity; but it's tightly scripted and directed, and genuinely tense in places.

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

Brühl brings his usual earnestness to a role that's already too earnest, and a shark - eyed Pike somehow fares even worse, with a flashback love interest doing little to add color to her waxen character.

There's a way to be truthful and honest without coming across as too earnest or needy.

Not exact matches

Perhaps those sales leaders — maybe you, too — should devote some time to thinking about your team's 2017 goals in earnest, and learn how to use them to improve performance and increase engagement.

With Hillary Clinton's tax proposals to encourage longer - term investing, the debate over whether American business is too fixated on the short term has moved from the dimly lit offices of earnest policy wonks into the klieg lights of U.S. primary season.

Sometimes this means an idea loses its magic, absolutely, but other times, it means that I ruminate on the idea for a while longer, explore it in my mind or in prayer more, before I hit the page in good earnest which is all good work, too.

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.

Yet during this time, Cairns says now, he «was still very far from establishing my life as prayer» Not too many years ago, after a rather bitter dispute at work, he started to pray in earnest: «I began an actual «rule» of prayer.

Incidentally, I was also reminded of why I dropped my LRB subscription in favor of The Literary Review: Life is too short to be spent on turgid prose and earnest political moralizing.

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.

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.

How great the time will be when we can start debating in earnest about his successor and what a pity it is we acted too late for it to be Pep Guardiola or even Klopp.

There are players at Arsenal who are honest, earnest and comitted players but because Wenger is adamant that he's going to succeed with his football revolution he often picks players based on that whimsical notion and plays an all too familiar expansive and fluid game which the opposition are well aware of............ even opposition from the lowest quarters of football.

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.

Heavy with earnest good intentions but too underpowered and oddly packaged to deliver the emotional gut punch its subject demands, Septembers of Shiraz is a disappointing misfire.

Oliver makes sure that every scene in Jonathan is slow, earnest, tidy, and very cautious, and he pulls back from anything that might be too dramatic.

Despite its «based on a true story» opening credit, this earnest, nostalgic film has a way of seeming too good to be true.

But the raw physicality of decay is the stuff body - horror nightmares are made of, and the intrinsically sensationalistic dimension of that kind of narrative makes it all too easily for an earnest exploration of death to resemble the straight - up exploitation of the same.

The movie is too cheerful and earnest to motivate any active dislike toward it, but not good enough to warrant any strong praise.

Terry Notary's daring work as a man living as a monkey (not too far - fetched considering his past roles in «Kong: Skull Island» and «War for the Planet of the Apes»), is the film's most enthusiastic and earnest scene that can stand brilliantly as a short film rather than a part of the film's ultimately flawed structure.

That his supporting efforts shine amongst the many overt endeavours to elicit attention is telling; so too, his status as the only earnest part of the overconfident, undercooked franchise attempt.

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.

It's the kind of earnest storytelling that the rest of the movie would seem all - too - eager to mock.

The result is a film that occasionally becomes too languid for its own good, but is generally entertaining enough with an earnest style of gravitas... Read More»

She's goofy too... but her goofiness has an edge, while Blake's goofiness is pretty earnest.

Rotten: Heavy with earnest good intentions but too underpowered and oddly packaged to deliver the emotional gut punch its subject demands, Septembers of Shiraz is a disappointing misfire.

There's real pain, anguish and defeat in that moment, and a kind of real, messy human drama that too infrequently breaks through this movie's earnest, activist surface.

His coy utilization of violence proves explosive and unexpected and Mackenzie treats loss with a kind of earnest respect that's too often glazed over.

The script tends to be a little too talky at times, pretending to be a more clever than it actually is, but it still retains a playful quality as people begin backstabbing each other in earnest for a bigger share of the money.

Regrettably, JFK was too busy sowing his wild oats to listen to a mistress willing to pass along a warning from an earnest CIA operative.

It's emotionally wringing, as a few of these needy - earnest - capable kids with anxious, hopeful parents make it through the lottery into high - performance charter schools while others — far too many others — do not.

They're an earnest bunch and they offer an attractive, teacher - friendly, alternative vision to the data - obsessed ed reform triumphalism that has the firm upper hand in education at present, yet too often defines well - educated as «reads on grade level and graduates on time.»

Neither are any current Ferraris silly because they, like the GT3, are too balanced, too technical, too likely to draw you into a very earnest conversation about lap times.

Try for the opposite of earnest and don't try to tell too much of the plot of your book.

«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.»

By the time the snow and wind began in earnest, too many had been suckered into staying, and instead of flying south, instead of already having flown south, they were huddled in people's yards, their feathers puffed for some modicum of warmth.

The doctor is earnest and sweet and way too nice for her, but if she lets him go, she might have to deal with Bachelor # 1, George, who somehow keeps showing up at all the wrong times saying exactly the right thing.

All too often, sequalization is motivated by money rather than any earnest attempt at artistic expression.