Sentences with phrase «with earnestness»

Moreover, making space for play in the therapeutic environment is good modeling for our clients; it shows them that they can approach their life with earnestness, but still have fun at the same time.

I am always leery of using SLAW to mention the services or product of a particular company, but I have been impressed with the earnestness at which XMLaw focuses on delivering practical solutions for law firms in delivering Intranet solutions to their users using the SharePoint platform (I am currently attending a conference they are sponsoring in Boston for their [primarily) law firm customers; my positive comments on their company have nothing to do with the boat tour of Boston Harbour and the open bar they just sponsored...).

It means accomplishing tasks with earnestness and representing your business with sincerity.

«A robust recovery and a merry Christmas,» was heard throughout the Cancun conference hall with an earnestness that could not be mistaken, as the delegates clapped one another's backs.

It's a well - worn conceit that Binary Domain tackles with earnestness.

With authenticity and empathy, Donovan gracefully drifts from Sandberg's story through the experiences of others, her voice ringing with the earnestness of the text, to communicate a profoundly moving message of hope and strength.

At one point, Claire, with all earnestness, asks if anyone knows how to fly a plane, and it's just right in a movie where you expect Leslie Nielsen to walk into the cockpit and say, «Good luck.

It batters you down with earnestness.

Her answer is a paraphrase of Patanjali's yoga sutra (I. 14): «practicing with earnestness over a long period of time without interruption.»

Firstly, Chris Evans took a character who could have easily become a caricature and made him real and relatable by imbuing his interactions with earnestness, integrity and bravery without making the end result appear cheesy or cynical.

He speaks with an earnestness that belies a tough - guy Boston accent, his shirt open wide at the collar, baggy pants cinched tightly at the waist.

«Realizing that I had discovered a rich field, I proceeded to take advantage of it, dedicating myself to work, no longer merely with earnestness but with fury,» he wrote in Recollections.

I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others.»

This is what my friend [Ebby Thacher] suggested I do: Turn my face to God as I understand Him [italics added] and say to Him with earnestness - complete honesty and abandon - that I henceforth place my life at His disposal and Direction forever (Bill Wilson's Original Story, a thirty - four page document I found at Bill's home at Stepping Stones, p. 30, lines 989 - 992).

She's an engaging writer and guest, willing to talk about her personal life in ways that disarm heavy topics with earnestness and transparency.

Intellectually brilliant, he engaged in a demanding marriage preparation course with an earnestness that commanded my admiration.

Not exact matches

So he decided to take a chance on a sprite - like 15 - year - old whose songs delighted him with their intensity and earnestness.

Only a handful of people close to Mr. Trump understood the depth of his interest in the presidency, and the earnestness with which he eyed the 2016 campaign.

The reviewer can tell the reader that in Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions he is to think along with the author about what it means to seek God, how the «resolution of duty» that ought to be present in marriage transforms romantic love into love that conquers everything, and how the awareness of one's mortality, of the certainty of death, of «death's decision» enhances earnestness in life.

When God seems to close His ear, we must not therefore close our mouths, but rather cry with more earnestness; for when our note grows shrill with eagerness and grief, He will not long deny us a hearing.

We exposed the»80s» illusions with a sense of detached irony, and came to hold sentimentality and earnestness with skepticism.

As Professor Alfred Whitehead puts it: «The result was that with passionate earnestness they gave free rein to their absolute ethical intuitions respecting ideal possibilities without a thought of the preservation of society.»

With its general increase in earnestness — Roger was on a crusade last week, and is on another this week; here comes Mona with her wise maternal zingers; and above all, listen to Freddy Rumsen's Tips For Changing Your Life — the series seems to be committing to the idea that selfish and / or self - destructive people can indeed become selfless and / or get their acts togetWith its general increase in earnestness — Roger was on a crusade last week, and is on another this week; here comes Mona with her wise maternal zingers; and above all, listen to Freddy Rumsen's Tips For Changing Your Life — the series seems to be committing to the idea that selfish and / or self - destructive people can indeed become selfless and / or get their acts togetwith her wise maternal zingers; and above all, listen to Freddy Rumsen's Tips For Changing Your Life — the series seems to be committing to the idea that selfish and / or self - destructive people can indeed become selfless and / or get their acts together.

(Isaiah 5:16) Then, in contrast with this view, having described the loose and cynical ways in which popular thought referred to «the Holy One of Israel,» (Isaiah 5:18 - 19) he went on to announce with vehement earnestness the real meanings of holiness in terms of personal morals and social righteousness.

Buttressed by such a phalanx of support Leo XIII ended his encyclical with a ringing exhortation, «We exhort you, Venerable Brethren, in all earnestness to restore the golden wisdom of St. Thomas, and to spread it far and wide for the defence and beauty of the Catholic faith, for the good of society, and for the advantage of all the sciences» [6] It was an exhortation that was welcomed and followed by many in the Church so that it has been written «We are accustomed to consider Saint Thomas, Thomism, and Aristotelianism as the predominant points of orientation and the most favourable to the Church.»

Eternity asks solely about faithfulness, and with equal earnestness it asks this of the king and of the most wretched of all sufferers.

Still, I sang, and with great earnestness.

The science is presented with breathtaking appeal; the moral concern is uttered with breathless earnestness.

Even as Paul compared the earnestness of the Corinthians with that of the Macedonians, he ultimately was comparing their love with that of the Master.

One man observing Moody in action at this time remarked, «I never saw such high pressure; he made me think of those breathing steamboats on the Mississippi that must go fast or bust: a keen, dark - eyed man with a shrill voice, and a thorough earnestness.»

The letters of Paul reveal that he had tried with desperate earnestness to find salvation in obedience to the Law.

With an entirely straight face, indeed with moral earnestness, Frank Rich continues in that idealistic vein for which Anna Quindlen was so admired by herself: «Perhaps these drawbacks are still troublesome today, but they are nothing next to such alternatives as unwanted babies or diseWith an entirely straight face, indeed with moral earnestness, Frank Rich continues in that idealistic vein for which Anna Quindlen was so admired by herself: «Perhaps these drawbacks are still troublesome today, but they are nothing next to such alternatives as unwanted babies or disewith moral earnestness, Frank Rich continues in that idealistic vein for which Anna Quindlen was so admired by herself: «Perhaps these drawbacks are still troublesome today, but they are nothing next to such alternatives as unwanted babies or disease.

A humble herdsman of Tekoa, he appeared one day at the royal shrine of Bethel and, with a religious earnestness that moves us even yet as we read it, began to denounce the spiritual shallowness, the exploitation of the poor by the rich, the bribery, sexual indulgence, and general moral laxity which he saw all about him.

One who has earnestness and inner spiritual resources can let his soul be lifted by such beauty as is present, get along without what is absent, and avoid confusing aesthetic pleasure with the beauty of holiness.

Far from identifying God, therefore, with the dominant customs of contemporary Israel or stopping with the divine condemnation of them, Hosea saw God with passionate earnestness refusing to give up his people and determined to save them from their evil:

The New Testament's later development of an international and inter-racial faith was the logical conclusion of Jesus» way of thinking about God, and so notable was this contribution that he has been credited with being the first one in history to take monotheism with thoroughgoing moral earnestness.

I think honesty and earnestness were qualities people thought they were getting with Barack Obama.

Hindus and Buddhists, Muslims and Mazdeans, Jews and Christians are filled with the same earnestness, sincerity, ardent love, obedience, and readiness to sacrifice.

Even when praying with the best of intentions and genuine earnestness, one is apt to «come to» with the startled recognition that somewhere along the way one's mind got off the track!

When asked what he and his fellow pacifists would do about it, he replied, with characteristic smiling earnestness: «Blow it up!

On the other hand, others have been prayed for with equal earnestness and faith, and they have died.

one may be sure that this will create a tremendous sensation, and give occasion for the writing of folios; for this counterfeit earnestness, which asks whether so - and - so is trustworthy instead of whether the inquirer himself has faith, is an excellent mask for spiritual indolence, and for town gossip on a European scale — if the credibility of such a witness is to have any significance it must be with respect to the historical fact.

Prior to falling in love with this cocktail, I'd only paired strawberry with lemon, and I was missing out because lime is the perfect contrast to strawberry's spun sugar / cotton candy / pink frosting earnestness.

With fewer publicityseeking Early Day Motions, perhaps MPs would have to study the proposed legislation in front of them with a degree of earnestness that our legislature laWith fewer publicityseeking Early Day Motions, perhaps MPs would have to study the proposed legislation in front of them with a degree of earnestness that our legislature lawith a degree of earnestness that our legislature lacks.

There are all those speakers combining earnestness with eccentricity.

Quite a few candidates — many of them young and first - time office - seekers — have impressed Bronx voters with their command of the issues, energy, background, organizational skills and earnestness.

You have to approach it with the same sort of earnestness and same sort of care that you approach questions in science.

He tells his host, with seeming earnestness, «It was a very good conference, Stuart.

Even when church officials — who, contrary to legend, approved of Copernicus's findings — asked him, according to Repcheck, «with the utmost earnestness» to publish his book and offered to pay his expenses, Copernicus refused.

The book was clearly a product of its time — parts of it still read with the overheated earnestness of late -»60s millenarianism.