Sentences with phrase «upon earnestness»

Yet busyness places its most weighty emphasis upon the frills, the capacity to please, and looks upon earnestness as nothing at all.

Our greatness is conditioned upon our earnestness in examining our own faults and remedying them.

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On the contrary, he looks upon this easiness as a temptation and a snare and he learns earnestness in order as an individual to be concerned about his eternal responsibility.

But if it is moved any closer to him, so close that it is presented in dead earnestness as a demand upon him, then the self - preservation instinct of the natural life is aroused to such an extent that it becomes a regular fury, as happens through drinking, or as they say, a furor uterinus.

To realize that this consciousness will one day cease, to see myself dead, to see the coffin closed upon me — that is earnestness.

What I do in earnestness spiritually believe in is that the family members of God including the physical God Himself lives upon the very first created cosmos which is the inner cosmos.

by Walter Chaw A little like Neil Diamond, Kevin Costner is an anachronism whose earnestness has landed him in Squaresville when the tragedy is that with a little tweaking in perspective, his peculiar brand of old - school earnestness might have his contemporaries looking upon him with more admiration than mirth.

But the film doesn't seem to have been well - liked at the festival, and while Matteo Garrone's Dogman wasn't exactly a cause célèbre either, its central performance, by Marcello Fonte, offers a palatable showcase for put - upon schmuck earnestness.

The character's introduction in Captain America: Civil War (more on that later) is built upon here as the film does a fantastic job of showing audiences Peter's teenage earnestness that it makes it feel more like a coming - of - age film than a superhero blockbuster.