| 单词 | earnestness |
| 例句 | “What if a dozen people told you, with perfect earnestness, that shamble-men were out in the fields, eating—” “Of course I wouldn’t believe them,” my father said, irritated. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I was surprised that he prayed for Papa with the same earnestness that he prayed for himself and Aunty Ifeoma. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He is polite and thoughtful and unexpectedly modest, and he talks with the quiet earnestness of a graduate student. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z They looked at the world with an impractical, luminous earnestness that moved her, but never convinced her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The hundred nights they’d sat up debating the pros and cons of self destruction with the earnestness of philosophers chained to a madhouse wall. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z She takes care of them with an earnestness that no other attendant does. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z And through the Link, I can sense his earnestness, his burning ambition to do right, his desire to prove it to me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “No, I mean it,” she said, and Joaquin didn’t know if she was just super upset or super high, but the earnestness on her face made him smile a little. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “Not asleep, but so happy, dear. See, I found this and read it. I knew you wouldn’t care. Have I been all that to you, Jo?” she asked, with wistful, humble earnestness. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z A calm, subdued triumph, blent with a longing earnestness, marked his enunciation of the last glorious verses of that chapter. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z There was such tenderness and earnestness in his voice, and just like that, I thought I would start crying. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He’d educated himself in his spare time, had saved his money with the earnestness of a Horatio Alger, started his own newspaper, gone to war, come home, pressed on, moved forward. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z ‘Do not speak of such things!’ said Strider quickly, and with surprising earnestness. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z So it was with a great deal of earnestness that she replied to Ruth. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I even like his earnestness, despite the fact that I usually hate earnestness. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z He came back to sit at the table, searching my face with an eight-year-old’s earnestness. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z She spoke with the earnestness that only a teen ager could truly have. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Mrs. Turner was almost screaming in fanatical earnestness by now. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z “Oh, I do want you to be happy,” it began, with a yearning earnestness. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked at him, amused by his earnestness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z His look was one of conviction, of guileless yet ironclad earnestness. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “Never,” he said, his voice cracking with earnestness. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z She glanced at Theodora and Luke and found both their faces fallen instinctively into a completely rapt classroom look; high earnestness, she thought; we have moved into another stage of our adventure. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z The first excitement was gone from the Row now and its place was taken by a deadly cumulative earnestness. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “This man says, ‘An exquisite book, full of truth, beauty, and earnestness.’ Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Misery etched my brother’s face, and I couldn’t imagine why he was apologizing to me in such earnestness. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The earnestness in her voice was persuasive, and on the afternoon of the appointment, after tenth period, Lexie parked her Explorer outside the house on Winslow. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In his earnestness, Dr. Luzan kept delving further into my psyche, plumbing the depths. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z What his sons and their contemporaries undertook, instead, was a massive spring clean of musical style and a project to celebrate not earnestness but wit, not inventiveness but elegance, not piety but beauty. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Messy earnestness and rough focus, not a dutiful prince but any other twenty-something boy enjoying himself doing something he likes, something he’s good at. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z His smile was gone, replaced by an earnestness that unnerved me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z He was talking intently across the table at her and in his earnestness his hand had fallen upon and covered her own. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z May God bless you for the earnestness with which you have tried to seek out what is right; may He guide both of us in that search during the days ahead of us. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z He spoke with an earnestness that it was hard to gainsay. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of us had heard a version of the address too many times before, and he droned on, killing time with his well-rehearsed nod toward earnestness. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z She isn’t playing any kind of game at all, and that earnestness is discomfiting. Review | Judy Chicago doesn’t have time for games. The planet is dying, and so are we. 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z At no point in his life has Rob possessed Lloyd’s earnestness, openness and emotional generosity. High Fidelity at 20: the sneakily dark edge of a comedy about bad breakups 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Friday’s concert was full of South African rhythms and songs that pushed earnestness toward joy. Music Review: Hugh Masekela Played His Horn and Sang at Rose Theater 2014-04-06T21:43:49Z As he put it, it’s a real misunderstanding of what irony is to think it’s the opposite of earnestness toward commitment. What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z Indeed, her purposeful march to the podium generated the night’s most memorable moment: Leonardo DiCaprio startled by her oddity, or her earnestness, or just the fact that she was there. Lady Gaga's Oscars Will Prove She's Pop's Reigning Champion 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z But I suppose race when bluntly dealt with does not blend well with that wonderful, famed American earnestness. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on 'Americanah' 2013-06-06T14:50:36Z As in many of the greatest Golden Age musicals, they latch onto a subject of topical importance, using its gravity to anchor their satire and their satire to leaven its earnestness. ‘The Prom’ Review: Bringing Jazz Hands to the Heartland 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Paradoxically, Eschenbach’s episodic approach had a cohesive effect on this tricky, contradictory music, bringing out the joy and warmth as well as the earnestness. A maverick soloist offers a classic new work 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Many of his pictures carry a tension between the ironic distance of the viewer and the subjects’ earnestness, encapsulated by a proudly carried sign or boldly emblazoned T-shirt. 5 Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z O’Connell proudly pushes back against the tide: If you don’t balance snark with earnestness, he says, you run the risk of seeming hollow. Too Sincere for the Internet? How the Web Journal Thought Catalog Sparked an Online Firestorm 2012-07-05T14:00:18Z He is a living reminder to actors not to succumb to solemnity or earnestness. With Stoppard, Chance Always Plays a Role 2011-03-11T21:48:57Z Above all else, the English valorization of irony participates in the English aversion to anything approaching earnestness. The English Fetishization of Irony 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z But Jarmusch is up to something fiercely earnest—for starters, mocking critics who want and expect a movie about the dead rising from their graves to proceed with a naturalistic earnestness. “The Dead Don’t Die,” Reviewed: Jim Jarmusch’s Fiercely Political Zombie Comedy 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z In a creative fit of self-imposed earnestness,"Learning" bubbled up and poured out. Perfume Genius: a local musician gaining global attention 2010-09-16T19:22:00Z Cline’s idiom is earnestness punctuated by millennial cool — but nothing too fussy, everything in just the right place. Emma Cline Knows First World Problems 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Their urban shack, which follows the short-lived Taan Noodles, is also meant to counter the earnestness they survey on the dining scene, where, says Abad, “even the casual places come across as serious.” Pop’s SeaBar and Walrus & Oyster Ale House: 2 joints where seafood rules Typically for me, back then, this was a case of facetiousness disguising earnestness. Oliver Burkeman's last column: the eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Instead of the music’s earnestness, the dance — with many incidental signs of accomplishment — exudes a kind of self-absorbed preciosity. Dance Review: Moving Preciously to the Music, Sometimes Stealing Away With It 2010-09-23T21:53:00Z “Whether this stuff is successful, people watch or don’t watch, I want to believe it,” he said with unapologetic earnestness. Spike Jonze, Cinema’s Big Kid, Gets a New Playground 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z There is a clear tension between Obama’s breezy charm and Biden’s earnestness, and Biden, as the narrator, often talks about feeling like a chump for being so openhearted and emotionally sincere. The Absurd Biden-and-Obama Crime-Fighting Novel That Can’t Escape the Present 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z But from "December Will Be Magic Again" to "King of the Mountain," her work shines with emotion and earnestness. From “Stranger Things” to TikTok: Kate Bush speaks to lonely kids. Here’s why 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z But here you sensed his earnestness, his effort to be magisterial and elegant. Music Review: Vienna Players Shine at Carnegie Hall 2010-09-30T06:26:00Z It’s sweet earnestness in a shrewd, ambitious package. Review: ‘Lukas Graham’ Lands Where Pop Meets R&B 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z The first act especially is mired in earnestness with the characters of President Abraham Lincoln, Grant and Lee engaged in a stilted diplomatic dance. Review: ‘Appomattox’ at the Kennedy Center 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Arriving just as the campy “Batman” was making a stir on TV, the original production spoofed the hero’s earnestness to the point of making him a dullard. Superman Musical Revived in Dallas 2010-07-02T08:18:00Z The fights convey the impression of watching a video game being played with adolescent earnestness, even as it has been rigged for the player to win. “John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum,” Reviewed: Empty Fight Scenes with a Paranoiac Chill 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z There's an earnestness to "The Wheel of Time" that I like. Oh thank god, The Wheel of Time isn’t terrible 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z And yet the very earnestness with which Paik tried to graft new technologies onto varieties of spiritual awareness chimes with a paradox I lately detect at the heart of today’s big tech. Perspective | Nam June Paik predicted the Internet, YouTube and Instagram. But he was more interesting as an artist than as a prophet. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z The Bravo tone of its living-room makeovers and tailoring challenges is freshened by spritzes of up-with-the-culture earnestness. Why “Styling Hollywood” Is One of the Best Celebrity-Stylist Reality Shows 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z George’s perorations, delivered by the ghastly complexioned Smith in tones of jovial, period-drama earnestness, are hilarious and painful. Reading Racist Literature 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z The work gently mocked the earnestness with which classical music is sometimes analyzed as well as the now-common refrain that classical music is dead. Steven Stucky, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of intricate musical wit, dies at 66 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z There’s an earnestness to the form that’s nearly admirable; cross words are rarely spoken, and most disagreements are resolved with a sheepish, white-toothed grin, always flashed guilelessly. The Republican Party’s Unrequited Love of Rock Music 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Affleck's earnestness - and apparent knowledge of the conflict - seemed to impress committee members. Affleck calls for stronger US leadership in Congo 2012-12-19T22:13:09Z She's yet to write her own "White Christmas," but there's no denying the earnestness she brings to tales of holiday joy or reverie. Holiday music: Seth MacFarlane, Downton Abbey, Idina Menzel, more 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z While Willow and Jaden both show an earnestness to explore their artistry, they haven’t quite homed in on a sound that is distinctly theirs. Jaden and Willow Smith bring sibling revelry — and youthful urgency — to D.C. concert 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Tender ascending notes in the left hand contribute a sense of earnestness to the right hand’s chordal, Minimalist-inflected mechanics. For a Composer, the Final Minutes Are Critical 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z And they do this with such earnestness as to bleed the enjoyment out of the viewing experience. "The Great" is the cheeky post-enlightment balm we've been waiting for 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z These characters are cut from familiar molds, but Mr. Golamco and his appealing cast bring fresh nuances, tempering the earnestness with unassuming charm. | 'Year Zero': Michael Golamco?s Play Opens at the McGinn/Cazale Theater 2010-06-02T21:06:00Z Its earnestness makes the characters’ ringing, eternally unsettling laments sound like ordinary gripes. Chekhov’s ‘Vanya’ rides again, with uncertain feeling 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z “There’s an earnestness that has infiltrated that does step on comedy’s toes,” she reasons. OITNB's Jenji Kohan: 'I’d be far richer if I’d stayed on Friends' 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z At one point, he sings the hymn “The Old Rugged Cross” with heartbreaking earnestness. Danny Lyon’s Camera Seeks Truth in Marginalized Lives 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z You have a section of the film talking about camp and how “Showgirls” has an earnestness that makes it a target. Was "Showgirls" actually a failure? "You Don't Nomi" revisits the craptastic cult film we can't quit 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z It favors earnestness and sentiment at the expense of real knowledge or feeling. Tom Hanks' "News of the World" is a toothless throwback Western 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Indeed, crying moon and all, the show’s very earnestness can seem like a joke. Facing Violence With Brushes and Ballots 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Pleasingly, the earnestness of the mission is undercut by Izzard's trademark pithy wit. TV highlights 23/05/2013 2013-05-23T05:59:01Z We’re in a transitional phase that is a confused combination of transparency and earnestness. Scratching the Celebrity Itch 2011-10-05T22:36:26Z Danny and his peers speak with an earnestness devoid of teenage self-consciousness. Review | For a lonely teen in the Midwest, radio is a sound salvation 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z “It’s a gut punch but it’s also the right move. It’s really important to maintain artistic integrity,” says Harper down the phone, with a hint of Chidi-style earnestness. William Jackson Harper on the end of the Good Place 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z The Kevin Costner thing says something about her when she puts the finger down the throat — about how she reacts to earnestness. After 25 Years, How Well Has Madonna’s ‘Truth or Dare’ Aged? 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z With practiced earnestness, she knows when to drop a personal anecdote, when to take on the role of connoisseur, and when to play willfully naïve and let her subjects speak for themselves. Q2 Music’s Brilliant “Meet the Composer” Podcast 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z He tilts at this windmill with formidable energy and considerable literary imagination, with an earnestness at once lavish and puzzling. Architecture’s Most Irredeemable Cad 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Something to counteract all the earnestness, all the impossibly sharp newsroom dialogue about earthshaking issues. ‘Breaking Greenville,’ About Rival News Stations 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Call it garage gospel: slow, deliberate music played on mostly acoustic instruments, sung with full throats and hearts, delivered with disarming earnestness. Drew Grow & the Pastors' Wives to open for the Maldives and Moondoggies 2010-12-16T22:17:26Z Even still, some question the legitimacy, or at least earnestness, of the allegations against Travolta and suggest that it’s the massage therapist’s responsibility to avoid sketchy situations. Massage therapists rubbed wrong by sex talk 2012-05-22T15:15:00Z Minaj’s jab provided a refreshingly vicious jolt in an event otherwise filled with earnestness. BET Awards 2014: Nicki Minaj provides a refreshingly vicious jolt 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z But the movies, meant largely for people who aren’t children, sacrifice sensory and aesthetic thrills for the earnestness of textual intricacy. The Superhero Movie as Secular Religion in “Aquaman,” “Bumblebee,” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z The mezzo-soprano Mary Phillips, if a little mushy in her diction, sang with dusky tone and earnestness. Music Review: Oratorio Society of New York?s ?Messiah? - Review 2011-12-20T21:59:08Z There's something about the way Wallinger composes apparent futilities with such systematic earnestness that is in itself convincing. This week's new exhibitions 2012-06-22T23:06:30Z The other problem with the show — and it’s one that’s uncomfortable to talk about, given the earnestness of everyone involved — is that it exposes the shortcomings of Mr. Armisen and Ms. Brownstein as performers. ArtsBeat Blog: Channel Surfing: 'Portlandia' 2012-01-06T18:38:15Z What this new recording captures in abundance is a heartfelt lyricism, conveyed with a compelling earnestness that perfectly suits Bartók’s music. CD reviews: Two lyrical recordings of classic 20th-century scores 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Such heavily stylised earnestness may do for Hurts in the end. Hurts ? review 2011-07-15T12:14:40Z Grainger’s “He Just Don’t Appeal to Me,” performed with disarming earnestness by Mr. Austin, was especially revealing. From Harlem to Italy, Sounds of Gay Subversion 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Pump Up the Volume and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves showed he could also do the kind of earnestness that might have pushed him fully mainstream. Double trouble: the hard life of the movie doppelganger 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z His heated, endearing earnestness had a better showcase in Gregory Spears’s new “Love Story.” Review: At the Philharmonic, Enveloping and Harrowing Sincerity 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z But transparency is more often these days a sign of deadly earnestness and lack of imagination, of giving in to the sort of architecture that you think your prospective tenants prefer. Philip Johnson's AT&T Building has always been vain, idiosyncratic and flawed. Let's keep it that way 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z White's character was the perfect contrast to Richards' earnestness. Mary Tyler Moore at 75: An Iconic Life In Pictures 2011-12-29T14:44:32Z Ben Bliss sang Tamino with a tender yet ample lyric tenor voice and earnestness. Review: ‘The Magic Flute,’ Trimmed for Families at the Met Opera 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Yet Davis, unwilling to conceive earnestness of purpose without sternness of mien, reduces the role of Jesus to intent glowering. “Mary Magdalene,” Reviewed: A Sludgy, Trivial Attempt at Revisionist Christian History 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z These are mostly errors of earnestness, however; the evening’s entertainment value never flags. Willkommen once again to ‘Cabaret’ 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z But he brings a proper earnestness to the character. 'Captain America': A marvel of a superhero 2011-07-21T15:17:04Z So it's always a breath of fresh air to see a small house embrace its smallness and send out a show where earnestness stands in for big budgets. Chanel's casual chic vs. Givenchy's extreme art 2011-01-25T23:56:11Z On the brink of collapsing under the weight of his own earnestness … Michael Jackson at the 1996 Brit Awards. The best No 1 records: Michael Jackson – Earth Song 2012-05-31T20:17:00Z “Illuminate” represents the careful evolution of his digestible sound and subject matter, with much of the organic instrumentation and good-guy earnestness of “Handwritten” intact. Shawn Mendes, Pop Idol, Is Not Banking on a Gimmick 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z In my experience, Kronos’s concerts tend to blend appealing earnestness and loose, not to say sloppy, playing; Saturday was no exception. Review | Kronos Quartet plays music from travel ban countries as political protest, but lets its Western roots take over 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z Tim, you have the earnestness of a high school guidance counselor. The World?s Smartest ?American Idol? Fans: A Roundtable 2010-03-17T14:11:00Z But the film also captures, with a deft mix of earnestness and humor, the messiness of grief. ‘Friendsgiving’ Review: Dysfunction With All the Trimmings 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z There is, however, a certain dreamy, floating quality to Mia and Seb — Stone and Gosling — that is more reminiscent of Astaire movies than, say, the deranged earnestness of Garland and Rooney. Show me the money: La La Land and the loving lap of capitalism 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Combining the earnestness of a journalism professor and the sarcasm of a satirist, Mr. Stewart routinely charges that Fox’s news anchors and commentators distort Mr. Obama’s policies and advance a conservative agenda. Jon Stewart of ?The Daily Show? Takes On Fox News 2010-04-23T22:21:00Z Besides these sketchbooks, they share an earnestness to learn. Katalyst arts program unites youth from many backgrounds 2010-06-02T22:24:00Z Colker's productions typically feature elaborate installations and sets, and tackle abstract themes with a scattershot earnestness that sometimes hits the mark and sometimes misses it. Tatyana – review 2013-02-03T00:05:42Z One of the pleasures of Downsizing is the jokey earnestness with which it sets out its stall, establishing the imaginary science behind its big idea. Alexander Payne on Downsizing: ‘The film isn’t a major statement – it’s a metaphor’ 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z These excursions, captured with reckless fluidity by the cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt, aerate the movie and temporarily dispel the dust of Higher Power earnestness. Review: Joaquin Phoenix Treks the Long Road to Sobriety in ‘Don’t Worry’ 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z In its gaudy eagerness and exposed earnestness, sentimentality is, in effect, the opposite of cool. People Who Like Celine Dion Are People, Too 2014-05-09T04:00:00Z But there is an earnestness and genuine sense of affection here that are appealing. Capsule reviews of new movie releases 2013-02-21T12:43:10Z Nica Burns, who runs the Foster's Comedy Award, said Christie's humor and earnestness were a winning combination. Feminist stand-up show wins top British comedy award 2013-08-24T17:17:12Z “I’ll never be able to thank them enough,” he says, with heartfelt earnestness. Seriously big break: how a call from the Coens changed Michael Stuhlbarg's life 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z What is striking about “Chocolate,” though, is the way its seemingly unvarnished earnestness is coated in a generous robe of sardonic tastemaking. The Hidden Depths of Sandra Boynton’s Board Books 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z What Manuel lacked in proficiency he made up for in earnestness and effort. Andrew Sachs, Hapless Waiter on the BBC Sitcom ‘Fawlty Towers,’ Dies at 86 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z I wanted to laugh it off, or make a self-deprecating remark, but Ryan’s earnestness prevented that. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z The scenarios are presented with an uncomplicated earnestness, and the quiz structure reinforces “right” and “wrong” ways to do things, which gives the book a bit of a teacherly vibe. 2 Graphic-Style Guidebooks to Calm Kids’ Social Butterflies 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Bowers said, “It gives him an authenticity, just the earnestness of his endeavor.” Antiques: Giving a Craftsman His Due 2012-09-27T21:56:26Z And her works go about answering them studiously but sensuously — with earnestness, wit, whimsy, self-awareness and music that ranges freely among, for a start, Baroque madrigals, power ballads and barbed modernism. Review: A New Opera Puts Real Emotions in a Fantasy Garden 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z He is determined to do the right thing, but his earnestness can’t cover up his notable lack of enthusiasm. Review: ‘Growing Up and Other Lies’ Stares Down the Advent of Adulthood 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z You can adduce all kinds of comedy and critical distance to Ms. Cyrus’s public pose, but there’s an earnestness in it, too, an almost boring will to transgress. Music Review: Z100 Jingle Ball at Madison Square Garden 2013-12-15T23:17:41Z “Harvey, I have a question,” Remnick interjected at one point, in all earnestness. The day I confronted Harvey Weinstein: ‘He said, 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z But that rural King County earnestness hasn’t faded, even as she steps into the biggest spotlight of her career. Brandi Carlile’s Grammy dominance heartens LGBTQ fans, with her since day one 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z But he had the right earnestness for this gullible slacker, who is convinced that pluck alone will be rewarded by good fortune. Music Review: In Yielding to Temptation, Losing a Chance at True Love 2011-06-27T21:19:10Z There’s an unregulated humor to his work that undercuts his personal earnestness, or vice versa. Growing older without growing up: Graffiti artist Borf 10 years later 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z If anything, the film pokes fun at the idea of the “slacker” and embraces earnestness and positivity. “Clueless” and the end of Gen X: How Cher Horowitz taught us to stop worrying and embrace millennial optimism, post-racial fantasy and the 1 percent 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z By the time Caviezel interrupts the end credits to comfort the audience and pass the tithing plate, even I felt primed to chip in for his earnestness. It's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," but for QAnon: Film spreading child trafficking hysteria is making bank 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z His primary weapon – and the quality that most sets him apart from the country stars who’ve surfaced in his wake – is his earnestness. Still a maverick, Garth Brooks returns with 'Man Against Machine' 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Fashion wingdings, for all their surface glamour, tend to be plagued by inoperable earnestness, the silent buzz kill. Fashion’s Oscars Return, After a Year That Reshaped the Industry 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Nadia’s unbelief, her indifference to prayer, her self-protective donning of a black robe: They exist not in modish irony but in hushed earnestness. Review | ‘Exit West,’ by Mohsin Hamid, is a tale of love in the time of migration 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z “Often an attempt at earnestness and seriousness is much more humorous than the attempt to be ridiculous.” Welcome back to ‘Portlandia’ 2012-12-07T22:51:55Z He learned as well to project an aura of earnestness and cool authority, along with a generous dollop of fashion sense. You Are What You Wear 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Instead of waiting tables in the taproom of an inn, Marcus works as a part-time librarian, like Neil in “Goodbye, Columbus,” Roth’s story about the fifties battle between earnestness and materialism. Philip Roth Versus the Movies 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z But you have to admire the ability of Mr. Ridley and his actors to wrap the earnestness in a compelling package. Review: ‘American Crime’ Fixes on Migrant Dreamers in the Fields 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z The song finds an breezy balance between earnestness and exhilaration. On Arcade Fire’s ‘Everything Now,’ Pop Can Reach Deep 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z The problem with such an approach – that a touch of earnestness can creep into what is very definitely a comedy – is largely avoided. La Cenerentola 2010-10-11T21:46:00Z Being an agnostic aesthete and a leading member of the Bloomsbury circle, Strachey couldn’t resist poking fun at piety and earnestness, seeing in them the outward form of religious mania and personal ambition. Review | The biography that changed biography forever 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Their earnestness harmonizes until it doesn’t, and rather than making some point about serendipity, the film cruises into a fresh terrain of vulnerability and trust with the second vignette. ‘There There’ Review: Only Connect 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z And yet, something about the earnestness of those songs, reflected in the audience’s full-chested belting, has made them inescapable pop standards. Abba Voyage Review: No Ordinary Abba Night at the Club 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z Grace has a streak of earnestness and a collection of really awful hats. Scream Queens: Glee creator is back with a frighteningly funny horror show 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z For his part, Austyn appears sincere about his desire to brighten people’s days — an earnestness that Mandelup juxtaposes against the grim environment around him, including a home overrun with cats. Three Great Documentaries to Stream 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Then, “He repeated what he had said, not without a certain earnestness: ‘Yes, you must read those books.’ The Modern Monkhood of Thomas Merton 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z As embodied with heartbreaking earnestness by Mr. Blum, he is clumsy, irritating and mostly ineffectual. Review: ‘Rancho Viejo,’ Where Banality and Trouble Cohabitate 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z The panicky nerd not only researches terrible possibilities - nuclear wars, bird flu pandemics and terrorism are just part of his repertoire - he also presents them to clients with a frightening earnestness. Fears drive satirical 'Odds Against Tomorrow' 2013-05-08T17:26:12Z But it also hamstrung by its earnestness, with a tone of finger-wagging moralism that is the antithesis of fun. Review: ‘Berlusconi: A New Musical’ Is Hammy and Hamstrung 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Some variations seethed with revolutionary fervor; others spoke with quiet earnestness; and still others seemed focused on the promise of a better life. Ursula Oppens shows why she’s a champion of American piano music 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Desperate to get out of Braggsville, D’aron composes a series of college application essays — reproduced here in all their pimply teenage earnestness — that would excite any admissions officer’s savior complex. The most unsettling, must-read novel this year: ‘Welcome to Braggsville’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z While often very funny, the podcast is something of a “play for earnestness,” as Black puts it, a sincere interrogation of craft and an intimate exploration of the creative process. “I was a d*ck”: Bob Odenkirk on struggling at “SNL,” blowing off David Cross and his career regrets 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z “I’m law enforcement too” he says to the agents who are investigating him as a potential terrorist, with an earnestness that is both comical and pathetic. ‘Richard Jewell’ Review: The Wrong Man 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The Daily Show segment then aired footage of Chieng talking with people in Chinatown in all earnestness — and in Chinese — for their views on the showdown between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. 'The Daily Show' Goes to Chinatown to Talk Politics for Real 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z It’s told with such earnestness and joy that you can easily see how Kpomassie managed to charm so many strangers along the way. The 10 best travel writers you’ve never read but should 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z Though the tenor Paul Groves captured the questioning earnestness and, later, the shell-shocked torment of Oedipus in his expressive singing, his voice was sometimes strained. Music Review: A Stravinksy Program With Ancient Inspiration 2011-05-04T18:58:03Z “The Green Knight” is always interesting — and occasionally baffling — but at the end it rises to a swirling, feverish pitch of feeling and philosophical earnestness. ‘The Green Knight’ Review: Monty Python and the Seventh Seal 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Marvel became the biggest player in the game by carefully threading the needle between earnestness and irony. Shattered Glass: why we need to stop deconstructing our superheroes 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z I totally believe James Adomian, I believe that guy, see his earnestness and his uselessness coming across in everything. David Cross loathes reality TV and viral stardom: “Those are reprehensible people and it bothers me that they are successful” 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Carlos Valdez was so taken with Newey’s friendliness and earnestness — and the fact that he was delivering pizza at his age — that he posted the doorbell camera footage on TikTok. A family raised $20,000 in tips for their 89-year-old pizza deliveryman 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z Here, the setting is Las Vegas and so the rank earnestness of “The Whole Truth” has been tossed and deposited somewhere in a flyover state. Television Review: More Legal Drama for Wednesdays, From New York to Las Vegas 2010-09-21T22:54:00Z Goo Goo Dolls cling to the earnestness of classic rock, but also step outside it, on their Christmas album. 20 Albums That Put a New Spin on the Holidays 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z There’s something nostalgic and reassuring and sweet and silly about the earnestness with which we looked at things. Jennifer Grey: 'I don't understand people who re-enact Dirty Dancing' 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z “I had only practiced on a floor,” Kidman said with a gentle earnestness. How Nicole Kidman Learned to Love Playing Lucille Ball 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z Though playful, there was a certain earnestness to the project. A Sequel to ?The Official Pretty Handbook? to Be Published 2010-04-03T16:32:00Z The story alternates between humor and earnestness, with humor happily in the forefront. | 'Seed': ?Seed? Opens at National Black Theater - Review 2011-09-29T21:21:39Z He praised the series "for the earnestness, the love of detail and the unwillingness to compromise," which allowed it to have "what it takes to touch the soul of the country." TV drama reopens debate over Germans' war guilt 2013-03-28T15:43:07Z With its unguarded emotions and romantic earnestness, "Aloha" seems out of touch with these times, its pre-release bad-luck run a sign of some core disconnect. Despite baggage, 'Aloha' has its charms 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Both actors sing with appealing earnestness, but Gish’s Fabrizio is painted in broader strokes, as though smitten Florentine hunks had been loitering around every corner for Clara to find. ‘The Light in the Piazza’ Review: Outside, Looking In at Love 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Not that there is too much wrong with the earnestness, either. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band – review 2012-06-22T18:24:42Z In barely two years, as her music has ricocheted around platforms, bringing new followers every day, Maia, who overflows with earnestness and giggles, has assembled an independent, D.I.Y. mini-empire almost by accident. A Teenager, Her Ukulele and a Bedroom Pop Empire-in-the-Making 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Martin introduces characters in sharp, funny flash-portraits that declare the book’s intention to perch, vape in hand, on the border of earnestness and satire. A Début Novel of Elderly Millennials, Afflicted with a Selective Strain of Self-Awareness 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z During their quarrel I thought, with absolute earnestness, “Wow, these porcupines have an unusually spacious apartment.” Review: ‘Sing’ Gives Animated Belters a Stage 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Once the applause quiets down, he says with a pointed excess of earnestness: “You came!” What Happened After the Joke: A Stand-Up’s Harrowing Tale 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z At his best, he brought a beefy voice, valiant high notes and earnestness to the part. Review: Third Tenor’s Not Quite a Charm in the Met’s ‘Roméo’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z There were two seasons of the show in 2018, and the second is superior, but both have an earnestness and positivity that are a welcome respite from the grinding misery of life. The Best TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z There’s some predictable cover-all-the-bases earnestness in the effort to outline the range of feelings on Scott’s palette, but you can appreciate why that might be the case. Perspective | On Broadway, ‘Thoughts of a Colored Man’ and ‘Lackawanna Blues’ deliver stories that defy stereotypes 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z The tenor Ben Bliss is wonderful as Ferrando, with an ideally sweet voice and boyish earnestness. Review: As James Levine Sues, the Met Opera Opens a New ‘Così’ 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z The two characters’ intelligence and articulation bend the frame of believability, and their relentless earnestness is going to grate on the sensibility of some audience members. It’s good to be pretentious! 2012-06-28T00:00:00Z But self-regard was another matter, as distasteful to Keane as earnestness. Review | Molly Keane worried her daughter wasn’t ‘nasty enough’ to write about her 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z I thought the way the Smiths songs had this great irony and earnestness at the same time was exactly how high school felt. James Franco on Daddy: ‘Our end goal doesn't depend on me being Beyoncé’ 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z It's the inelegant banality of the lyrics, delivered with a tooth-aching earnestness that, on the title track, tip headlong into self-righteousness. Jonathan Jeremiah: A Solitary Man ? review 2011-03-17T23:40:01Z “Little Cloud is a simplified symbol of light and hope, a happy little gift,” Mr. Borkson said with an earnestness that is unusual, if not heretical, in the art world. New at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade: A Sunny Little Cloud 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Traditional boundaries — between poetry and painting, high art and low, film and music, irony and earnestness — weren’t so much transgressed as shown to be irrelevant. ‘The Velvet Underground’ Review: And Me, I’m in a Rock ’n’ Roll Band 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z With excruciating earnestness, Dean shows Chris the artworks he got from Bali and tells him he would have voted Obama a third time if he could. Why Get Out should win the 2018 best picture Oscar 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z In person, he reminded me of many eras of himself: the homespun earnestness of Richie Cunningham; the wise tone of his narration on “Arrested Development”; some small hint of Winthrop, in “The Music Man.” To Mars, Not a Moment Too Soon 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Over the years, he’d somehow worn his critics down with his earnestness and his dedication and his sincerity — the same things that caused the ridicule in the first place. Ethan Hawke Is Still Taking Ethan Hawke Extremely Seriously 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z But that kinship mistakes cynicism for earnestness, volume for accuracy, popularity for morality. The Battle for Kanye West Is Happening in Real Time 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z More elaborate ones, such as “The Child’s Hymn on Awakening” and “Andante lagrimoso,” were filled with piquant detail, underpinned by emotional earnestness. James Tocco impresses with rare performance of 1849 Liszt piano suite 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z For Ms. Lambert and Nico & Vinz, who made their initial mark by finding a way to make earnestness something more than a personal crusade, sincerity is its own performance. Albums by Mary Lambert, Nico & Vinz and Angaleena Presley 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z The whole movie proceeds in this spirit of barbed earnestness. ‘Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square’ Review: Holiday Winks 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z A year earlier, I had stood in front of my parents in all earnestness and told them that I wanted to be a writer. My Rear Window 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z The smile in her tone, meanwhile, robs Brahms of his earnestness: she was delightful in Sonntag above all. Roocroft/Martineau ? review 2011-03-04T18:05:51Z Besides, irony’s opposite, absolute earnestness, can be morally cowardly too, when the true believer abjectly stays the course — often because he fears that not staying the course would be cowardly. Boston Marathon bombing, one year later: Were the Tsarnaevs really cowards? 2014-04-14T23:00:00Z This is true even when the play takes a turn into Clifford Odets-style earnestness at the end, a detour that is of a piece with the play’s theme but not with its jaunty, double-edged tone. Theater Review: Kristoffer Diaz?s Body Slam to the American Dream 2010-05-21T03:52:00Z Sure, there are occasional bouts of earnestness, but much of the material is playful and even peppy, with passages set to an unimaginative assortment of show tune instrumentals and classical jingles. Review: Helen Keller’s Words and Seven Actors in ‘Three Days to See’ 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, though, the duo allow their earnestness too much sway, making for deadening solemnity. Smoke Fairies: Blood Speaks ? review 2012-05-17T20:45:01Z I was proud of the first one too, but it was drier; it had a kind of earnestness to it. Hugh Laurie loosens up in continued visit to house of American music 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z The man behind the iconic emblem of infant safety, who speaks with such earnestness about the bond between parent and child, has never had a baby himself. ‘Baby on Board’: How a cutesy decal embodies the enduring terror of parenthood 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Today the danger is that we look at the humor of “Antic Meet” with a new kind of earnestness, carefully parsing its possible allusions to Martha Graham and other bygone figures. Dance Review: A Golden Age Continues Without Its Midas 2011-03-23T22:27:34Z Mr. Brenna conveys awkward earnestness in the role — at first, anyway. Review: A Masterful ‘Lulu’ at the Met 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Jon Stewart, with his inimitable blend of earnestness and deadpan, weighed in on the events with a moving statement. “A right some people are forced to die for”: Late night hosts weigh in on Charlie Hebdo shooting 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z “I did,” he says, with the earnestness only psychotropic drugs can bring. ArtsBeat: 'Mad Men' Watch: The Intersection of Individual Hells 2012-04-23T06:34:16Z This is partly down to her pixie-like physiology and partly something in her manner that suggests extreme youth – a kind of winsome earnestness. Claire Danes's secret diary 2011-04-01T23:03:12Z There’s more earnestness and literary aspiration in the originals, like “Underling,” which Ms. Salvant delivered in an air of grave elegance. Review: Cécile McLorin Salvant Wields Her Power, Drawing From Her Album ‘For One to Love’ 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z As for Russell, the process helped her approach “an earnestness that many writers become allergic to,” she said. A Song and Dance Collaboration, Straight Outta Swamplandia 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Working up the courage to interact with a stranger and fighting through his 4-year-old nerves, he approached the trade with a stoic earnestness. Weekend getaways: With Legoland, grizzly-watching and other kid-friendly delights, parents can’t lose in San Diego 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z But even then, to fully embrace The Dilemma also requires a tolerance for tonal discordance and a sociological interest in the bridge between the earnestness of the bromance and the gender hegemony of toxic masculinity. Hear me out: why The Dilemma isn't a bad movie 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z All her earnestness, wonder, rage — the plain innocence of feeling — was denied to her in childhood. ‘Funeral Diva,’ a Mix of Memoir and Poetry, Stirs the Body and Mind 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Throughout President Biden’s inauguration, music sent every possible signal of unabashed earnestness. At Biden’s Inaugural Events, the Music Was Earnestly Reassuring 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Most books this dark have major earnestness problems, but Available Dark doesn’t. Two Good Books: Elizabeth Hand's Available Dark and Edward St. Aubyn's At Last 2012-02-15T21:23:51Z Letterman was known for his dry absurdity but also for his moments of earnestness. Foo Fighters play David Letterman's favorite song, 'Everlong,' for farewell 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The show starts off in a grating key of deep earnestness, as a chorus of Ganderians step to the edge of the stage to deliver an anthem of hearty regional identity. Review: ‘Come From Away,’ a Canadian Embrace on a Grim Day 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z Ms. Paulson’s teary earnestness in the climactic scene rings true, and yet it’s not the whole story. | 'Collected Stories': Linda Lavin as Donald Margulies?s Vision of Faded Fame 2010-04-28T23:01:00Z He tends to answer questions with an intense earnestness that borders on confession, “oh, gosh” punctuating many of his sentences. Nicholas Sparks hits a tear-soaked milestone: 20 years of sentimental love stories 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z But playing off the earnestness that made him the perfect fit for Dawson Leery, he gets you to root for his comic characters, because he seems to be trying so hard. Review: James Van Der Beek, From ‘Dawson’s Creek’ to an Alt-Diplo 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z But he said that to confuse their desire to make money with a lack of earnestness about living openly would be unfair and a double standard. Cultural Studies: A Celebrity Comes Out of the Closet? So What? 2010-05-21T22:00:00Z Or maybe a campaigning Wilson overstated his earnestness, even if O’Toole doesn’t seem to see it that way. In ‘The Moralist,’ Woodrow Wilson and the Hazards of Idealism 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z There were silly moments, and she knows how to lean into a shtick, but the self-love sermons were the real draw for the almost entirely female audience and Lizzo always came back to earnestness. Will Lizzo Rule the Grammys Like She Owned 2019? 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Reading today's interview with Brown and extract from his new book – Beyond the Crash is a title that suggests he is trying to put the past behind him – reminds me of his clunky earnestness. Gordon Brown and Ann Widdecombe ? two possible paths for politicians post-power 2010-12-06T12:25:00Z It was a year of earnestness, inspiration and exhortation. Oscars 2015 Recap: Saved By the Music 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Pascal grants Javier a tangible earnestness and common grit Holbrook’s cowboy lacks, immediately making him a more captivating guide into this frustrating territory. "Narcos" returns with a fresh approach and a season steeped in violent paranoia 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z These performers cut through the swelling music and sometimes cloying earnestness to put across some valuable emotional truths. ‘The Last Full Measure’ Review: Remembering a Fallen War Hero 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z How do you read the sincerity or earnestness or meaning of his transformation? Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z However, even if the pair, as renowned former hedonists, are overdoing the earnestness a little as they settle into their 30s, in the quietly demented strains of Diary, it's clear neither has lost his flair. Mike Skinner and Rob Harvey: halves of the Dot 2013-05-15T17:30:01Z Mr. Shannon does have a remarkable lack of pretension, with an earnestness and sincerity that stands in contrast to his physical ostentation. Theater: He Looks Like a Big, Scary Guy Because He Is One 2010-12-26T02:24:21Z What adds freshness to “My Salinger Year” is not just its wry take on the writer of the rye but Rakoff’s sympathetic mix of passivity, naiveté, stoicism, earnestness, understated intelligence and finely honed literary sensibility. ‘My Salinger Year,’ by Joanna Rakoff But his earnestness is at odds with the movie’s desperate, frenetic desire to keep us engaged every minute. Review: Matt Damon Elevates Jason Bourne
Beyond Generic Action 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z While the narrative occasionally dives into earnestness, it tends to only be in service of reinforcing the bond between them rather than to teach them some dunderheaded moral lesson. The best TV of 2016 … that you probably didn't watch 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z In the short videos, Garner gets her deadpan on, playing multiple roles with just the right measure of earnestness and folly. Pippa Garner at Redling Fine Art: Vehicles for clever satire 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z I started to appreciate Tweetsie for its silliness, sweetness and earnestness. Tweetsie Railroad: A throwback in more ways than one 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z As Nabulungi, the smart, dewy village girl who dreams of Salt Lake City, the sweet but savvy Nikki M. James gives a lovely, funny performance, never winking at her character’s earnestness. | 'The Book of Mormon' : Missionary Men With Confidence in Sunshine 2011-03-25T02:30:32Z “Those questions are present in the book, and she asks them without earnestness, but with a great deal of sincerity.” Sally Rooney to Publish ‘Beautiful World, Where Are You’ 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z At the Red Table, Willow is a beacon of earnestness and humanity. Hollywood’s First Family of Putting It Out There 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z For those of us who feel things deeply but find earnestness mortifying, noisy humor is often the only way into our most vulnerable selves. Have we forgotten how to read critically? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z Soon, Kelly establishes his own angle and approach, underscoring Savannah’s earnestness and Laura’s disingenuousness as the story jumps around San Francisco and then moves farther afield as the JT show goes big and then bigger. ‘J.T. LeRoy’ Review: Unpeeling the Layers of an All-American Hoax 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z A well-calibrated harmony between earnestness and irony powered the engine that made 30 Rock go, and the old bucket still runs like a dream after all these years. 30 Rock: is the quarantine reunion worth the wait? 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z What's the balance you see in him between earnestness and performance? ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: D. T. Max on David Foster Wallace 2012-09-12T16:30:39Z For instance, Paul Banks, later to front the acclaimed Joy Division sound-alike Interpol, is first seen here bearing an acoustic guitar and a boyish earnestness. ‘Meet Me in the Bathroom’ Review: New York’s Last Rock Renaissance 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z “Pose” will not deign to accommodate such frivolity, but its earnestness has its rewards. “Pose,” Reviewed: In Ryan Murphy’s Latest Musical Melodrama, Elektra Abundance Steals the Show 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z “If Juiceboxxx was making fun of himself,” Neyfakh writes, “the joke was manifestly wrapped up in a thick layer of earnestness.” ‘The Next Next Level’ by Leon Neyfakh: a tale of rap and friendship 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z But I and Love and You's stock in trade is a slowly building acoustic ballad of quite startling earnestness and sincerity. The Avett Brothers: I and Love and You | CD review 2010-03-25T15:30:00Z And the postscript produces a grudging admiration for the earnestness of its affect and the purity of its faith in writing. Patti Smith’s ‘Devotion’ — equal parts exasperating and inspiring 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z It's that earnestness, coupled with a truly chameleon-like gift to climb into the skin of a character, that make her plea to keep sealed the magician's cloth seem more naive than pretentious. Rooney Mara: 'I've been guarded since I was three years old' 2013-03-02T06:00:00Z “Vox Lux” sinks under the weight of its own bombastic earnestness. “Vox Lux,” Reviewed: A Tale of Star Power That Misuses Natalie Portman’s Star Power 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z But make no mistake: Billions has no designs on state-of-the-nation earnestness. All hail Billions – the smartest stupid show on TV 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z George Stevens’s 1965 film, “The Greatest Story Ever Told,” also on demand, is an unwieldy film of frequently awkward earnestness. From ‘Ben-Hur’ to ‘Hop,’ Slim Pickings From the Easter Bunny’s Basket 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z But what I lacked in beauty I made up for in earnestness. Mortified: Reading old diary entries in front of an audience is only part of the challenge Her portraits somehow manage to combine effervescence with earnestness, a finely tuned sense of absurdity with nostalgia, satiric wit with genuine warmth. Books of The Times: Soft Lyrics Set in Motion a Mad Crush 2011-01-31T19:02:40Z Similar variations on the same sentiment were echoed throughout the piece by DiCaprio’s peers, who ascribed to their kind what Mary Louise Parker called “an earnestness, a desire to do good work.” How a Young Leonardo DiCaprio Predicted His Future 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Despite its demonstrations of whiz-bang machinery, and the earnestness and occasional bravado of the many officers and police department officials who are interviewed, “Counterterror NYC” has a cautionary, even scary, tone. | 'Counterterror NYC': A New View of New York Constantly on Guard 2011-01-28T17:07:42Z Slick earnestness is a tough swallow — a jagged little pill of its own. Review: ‘Jagged Little Pill’ Breaks the Jukebox Musical Mold 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z And yet Ghosh does so without excessive earnestness, leavening his narrative with nuggets of fact and insight. 'River of Smoke': adrift on a sea of opium 2011-10-12T21:59:11Z For the uninitiated, that guy is Kit Harington, who pops up early working the same moist earnestness and manicured scruff that he deploys so fetchingly in “Thrones.” ‘Seventh Son’ Stars Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore and Kit Harington 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The answers are dry, technical and funny in their earnestness. Blog Gives Superheroes Their Day in Court 2010-12-20T15:17:43Z The episode proceeds accordingly, exchanging parody for earnestness. 'How do we celebrate, not satirize?': inside the world of Terence Nance 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Gordon-Levitt as solid as always but there's not much to his character aside from earnestness. Review: Batman series ends as epic letdown 2012-07-16T18:40:09Z Mark Duplass: The key thing to think about with a lot of our movies in general is something that we call the “goofy earnestness.” ArtsBeat: Jeff, Home and the Duplass Brothers 2012-03-16T20:18:47Z Shmuel is the beatific one, and Adams is wonderful with the young man’s earnestness and sudden bursts of religious lucidity that verge on poetry. Review | The new comedy ‘Trayf’ at Theater J is Zalmy and Shmuel’s excellent adventure 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z The more shocking moments fall flat in their earnestness: one dancer, standing in the middle of the stage, urinates through his underwear. Dance Review: Keith Hennessy’s ‘Turbulence’ at New York Live Arts 2012-10-09T21:59:44Z The earnestness derives from a strong sense of threat. Gossip from the Forest by Sara Maitland – review 2012-10-27T23:25:11Z A dreary pileup of hard-luck monologues and run-down locations, Mark Webber’s “Flesh and Blood” straddles the line between fact and fiction with exhausting earnestness and a fatal dearth of narrative. Review: Reality Bites in ‘Flesh and Blood’ 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z There are those who speak of it with the earnestness of the late Christopher Martin-Jenkins describing Hampshire batsmen of yesteryear. Lulu; Huw Watkins day – review 2013-02-17T00:06:20Z “Suckerpunch,” her new album, smacks away indie signifiers: Out with the guitars and the earnestness, in with bravado, beat drops and Auto-Tune. 75 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z It occasionally ponders life’s complexity with wide-eyed, youthful earnestness. Review: ‘The Future for Curious People’ by Gregory Sherl This show celebrates our educators' dedication to shaping the future not with earnestness, but joy, cleverness and humor that often leaves the viewer breathless. The joy of "Abbott Elementary" is in its lesson about working hard for a fulfilling purpose 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Is the success of shows like "The Good Place" and "Ted Lasso" an early indication that sitcoms might be ready to embrace earnestness and emotional intelligence again? Ed Asner helped usher in the secular rabbi, making America warmer and a little more Jewish 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, the show does not undergo such a metamorphosis, and remains stubbornly tethered to a well-intentioned earnestness. Review: Female Chemistry in ‘The Half-Life of Marie Curie’ 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Later, “The New Day,” announces, with acoustic-guitar-strumming earnestness, “We’re the future, it’s hard to say we know / And the suture is what we have to sew.” Greta Van Fleet Blasts Toward the Past 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z The film tries to strike a balance between earnestness and we’re-in-on-the-joke nods to the audience. Bursting Into Dance: Gentlemen, Assume the Superhero Stance! 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z That earnestness is ultimately what is most appealing and disarming about “The Momentum.” | 'The Momentum': Life Is an Existential Cabaret, My Friend 2011-02-09T01:42:27Z It’s tempting to hope that Zink’s unnerving humor might pry open a space for us to think more reflectively about racism, homophobia and sexism than our earnestness usually allows. ‘Mislaid’: Nell Zink’s subversive novel takes on racism and sexuality 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z But there’s something new mixed in among the mustache-twirling and predictable iconoclasm: a strain of earnestness, especially as the storyline becomes more involved in real-world issues like the persecution of gay Russians. Review: More Power, More Problems in House of Cards 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z And she managed to give a terminal exercise in earnestness the rollicking flavor of a number by Sweet Sue and her Society Syncopators, the all-female band from “Some Like It Hot.” The Essays of a Beloved Bon Vivant 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z That sort of generosity and earnestness carries over to the kitchen, something apparent right from the start. Bites : Restaurant Review: Bones in Paris 2014-02-20T20:16:02Z Their message is rooted in the Bible, flavored with rock 'n' roll and delivered with an earnestness that connects with their audience. Casting Crowns aim for 6th straight win at Doves 2010-04-21T12:08:00Z What Scott delivers in “Alien: Covenant” is the simulacrum of seriousness without the sense of self-conscious silliness, a grim earnestness that’s reinforced by a thudding, grandiose aesthetic that utterly lacks originality. “Alien: Covenant” Bursts with Pomposity 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z There, along with earnestness, Beam brings a surprisingly dangerous charm. This week's new live music 2011-03-05T00:07:31Z Religious nostalgia and folkloric earnestness cling to the score like heavy perfume. ‘The Enchanted Wanderer,’ by the Mariinsky Theater, at BAM 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z In the principal role of Philip, Mr. Ryan oozes earnestness and yearning, doing his determined best to make credible Philip’s absurd behavior. Theater Review: ‘The Correspondent,’ a New Play by Ken Urban 2014-02-18T22:15:19Z There's an earnestness and weight to the album that simultaneously gives it its focus, but also makes the listener yearn for some light amidst the bleak post-breakup laments. Lykke Li: Wounded Rhymes ? review 2011-02-24T22:50:00Z Conversely, I disliked Crosby and Kelly because they emitted an air of sanctity, and a nuclear, Paul McCartney-like earnestness. Irish America and the siege of Hollywood 2010-07-11T21:29:00Z "But at the same time, I appreciate his earnestness." 'So I'm a transsexual and this is what's happening' 2012-07-22T19:30:00Z I was very proud of it,” she adds with her special brand of chirpy earnestness. Television Review: Make ?Em Laugh With Tales of Tears 2010-12-09T22:52:00Z It’s “The Greatest Love of All,” a song of such earnestness and fulgent self-esteem that under no circumstances could it also be cool, under no circumstances could it be “Before I Let Go.” Defining, and Proclaiming, a New Black Power 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z She has an attractive earnestness as she says that the Royal Court as a theatre reminds you that "there is some honour in an industry that is sometimes called showbiz". Royal Court theatre prepares to bid farewell to King Dominic 2013-03-10T07:00:00Z While she can’t pinpoint what quality in her made others consider her for comedy roles, her approach has always relied on earnestness. Winning a BAFTA? Just One of Joanna Scanlan’s Career Surprises. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Pro: But sometimes the dreamy earnestness works, especially in scenes set to music. Should you watch Cameron Crowe’s TV show ‘Roadies’? Let’s talk it out. 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z The rest of the set was defined by eccentricity and whimsy, along with occasional moments where they forgot about bearded earnestness and flailed viscerally. British Sea Power ? review 2011-01-14T23:01:00Z When talking about this welcome, an earnestness and warmth creeps into his voice. Mehdi Hasan: 'Most people ask the question and move on. I don't' 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Even when they come from an eccentric millionaire high on his own power as well as actual drugs, displays of earnestness on this level strike a chord with viewers. A millionaire, his meth addiction and the horror movie 15 years in the making 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z After surviving her “Innocents” phase — the earnestness, the piety, those doe eyes — is there a part of her that’s running in the opposite direction, searching down dark alleys to see what she might find? The Amy Adams Method 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Modern workplace comedies don't usually get many points for sweet earnestness. Best TV of the Decade, from 2010 to 2019 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z As useful as that message may be, it is imparted with more earnestness than passion. | 'Tales From Earthsea': An Animated Version of Ursula K. Le Guin?s Novels 2010-08-12T23:26:00Z He liked one's pageantry, the other's earnestness, the danishes at a third. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: D. T. Max on David Foster Wallace 2012-09-12T16:30:39Z Basically his claim is that irony when properly understood is a very high form of sincerity and earnestness, not its opposite. What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z Butler brings a sad core to Ruby, Hedley’s complicated mother, and Wright’s sturdy earnestness goes a long way to helping us see things the way the wrathful, hopeful, proud King Hedley II sees them. The ’80s are back with a vengeance in Wilson’s ‘King Hedley II’ at Arena 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Part of the appeal of Tolkien’s stories is their unembarrassed earnestness, their willingness to deal in good and evil and matters of honor; they are anti-modern, anti-antihero. ‘The Rings of Power’ Review: Shiny, Not Yet Precious 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Avi, meanwhile, is really probably too broad a character for this show, but his brassy flair amid so much gloomy earnestness is like water in the desert. Review: FX’s ‘Snowfall’ Dramatizes an Origin Story for Crack Cocaine 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z Performing them with ardor and earnestness often only amplifies their creaks. Theater Review: ?Early Plays? by O?Neill From Wooster Group at St. Ann?s 2012-02-23T05:07:20Z But Whitaker seems deadly earnest in this choice, and I fear this earnestness has infected his characters as well. A Novel of the West Spans Decades and Genres 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z The play can never settle on a tone, and many scenes land askew, teetering uneasily between earnestness and flamboyance — it often feels as if dramatic ones are played for laughs, and vice versa. Review: ‘Not About Me’ Remembers Decades Shrouded by AIDS 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Straightforward earnestness is a good look on him. "American Idol" thinned to seven: ranking the field 2011-04-15T18:18:08Z Her debut is easily one of the best albums of the year and certainly the most exciting thing to happen to indie rock since passive earnestness replaced guarded cynicism more than a decade ago. Singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett lets her lyrics do the talking 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z He croons with a kind of desperate earnestness. Stephen Cheng Recorded a Cult Classic in Jamaica. Then What Happened? 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z But “The Grey” unfolds in a mood of grim earnestness and is grounded in an idea of masculinity under duress that is no less authentic for being thoroughly sentimental. Movie Review: Liam Neeson in Joe Carnahan?s Thriller ?The Grey? 2012-01-26T22:19:02Z I suggest, before we go, that there is a prejudice toward earnestness, that we want our artists to suffer. Sir Peter Blake: ‘All a country has is its culture; the rest is infrastructure’ 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z "I won't disappoint," he says with the earnestness of a Boy Scout through a predatory grin. 'Nightcrawler' shows how the news worm has turned 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Gad, who shot to prominence in the Tony-winning musical "The Book of Mormon," also plays the error-prone, good-intentioned son Skip, who with his three younger siblings backstop the earnestness of his father and step-mother. White House TV comedy aims for laughs, not politics 2012-12-15T01:46:28Z Mr. Pittas offered two sets of dispiritingly second-rate songs by Duparc and Brahms in which the music never quite managed to elevate the texts’ kitschy earnestness. Review: Jennifer Johnson Cano and Dimitri Pittas at the Morgan 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z I laughed out of politeness and slight embarrassment at the earnestness of the exhibitions. | Abroad: Take My Bulgarian Joke Book. Please. 2010-10-27T17:57:00Z "The eternal curse of rock histories is their earnestness," wrote Steve Jelbert in the Independent on Sunday, reviewing Prince by Matt Thorne, who he hoped would not fall into the trap. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2012-10-05T21:55:16Z However, there is nowhere near enough invention on display to disguise the blank-eyed earnestness of the lyrics. Black Veil Brides: Wretched and Divine – review 2013-01-10T22:15:02Z Not that there is no earnestness in awards season — some of those celeb tears are real — but there is room for a little edge as well. The Carpetbagger: A Swirl of Back Patting on the Statuette Circuit 2011-01-12T23:17:49Z And in the tricky romantic scenes, which are the most challenging to make colorful, Greg Hess performs deadpan earnestness with a wonderful ease that resists overstatement. The Improvised Shakespeare Company’s Couplets Off the Cuff 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z “Sleep” is rife with the hallmarks of Mr. Richter’s style: a clarity that can seem like superficiality; an earnestness and emotionality that often come off as more ersatz and manipulative than personal. On the Mattress for ‘Sleep,’ an 8-Hour Lullaby 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Because our earnestness and our vanity beg for nothing less; only comedy can dissolve them. Shooting the Jesters 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Such scenes are a distraction from both the tense monotony of the seagoing life and the deadly earnestness of the anti-whaling life. Television: On the High Seas, a Mix of Danger and Bumbling High Jinks 2010-08-26T22:23:00Z But there is an earnestness in students volunteering to read their work. The time the homeless wrote poetry 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z That put him at the center of the folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s, in all its idealism, earnestness and contradictions. Pete Seeger, 1919-2014: A Folk Revivalist Who Used His Voice to Bring Out a Nation’s 2014-01-29T02:31:11Z The oblivious and exaggerated earnestness of this moment suddenly penetrates the eyes and ears of viewers and implants the fatal spore of ridicule. “Alien: Covenant” Bursts with Pomposity 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z The singers’ poses are struck with an endearing earnestness that feels at home with Schubert’s heartfelt style. ‘Il Trovatore’ and ‘Fierrabras’ at Salzburg Festival 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z He writes for young adults, about young adults, with a teenager’s earnestness and aching emotional intensity. Are Tiny Books a Sign of the Twee-ification of Literary Culture? 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Guirgis’s style is unabashedly in-your-face and sometimes slapstick silly, yet he establishes his startlingly deep earnestness right at the top. Forum Theatre’s ‘The Last Days of Judas Iscariot’ But he presents this trope with loving humor, in parody that doesn’t quite obscure the earnestness of the message. Ragnar Kjartansson’s exuberant work at Hirshhorn is a party celebrating mediocrity 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z It’s told with the candor of a campfire conversation, a family photo album by her side, and with the wit, humility and earnestness Carlile exudes onstage and in interviews. Brandi Carlile opens up about overcoming insecurities, her latest Grammy win and her new memoir 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z But there was at times an excessive earnestness to the music making, due perhaps to the solemn intimacy of the church’s St. James Chapel or to the proximity to Columbia University. Music in Review: Music in Review: Early Music New York 2012-11-11T23:13:23Z Throughout “Stand by You,” cliques of young girls all over the crowded club held on to each other and screamed the chorus with maniacal earnestness. Rachel Platten is making up for a late start 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Unless I’m mistaking his earnestness for something else, Walter says what he means. ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap: Destructive Secrets 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z It’s a fun enough idea, but it never quite landed, and segueing from that ironic niceness to Oh’s genuine earnestness just set everything off on a confusing, slippery start. The Best and Worst of the Golden Globes 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Monahon giddily mines comparisons between her character’s earnestness and her modern namesake, and her sharp writing blends Shakespearean lowbrow humor with contemporary concerns. Review: In ‘Jane Anger,’ Revenge Is a Thorny Uphill Climb 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Yet for all its flaws, I found its earnestness compelling, with an urgency that kept me going. How Military Quagmires Have Caught Mighty Powers by Surprise 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z His “retired internet slang” and earnestness are, “compared to the inscrutable advances of younger men, … a relief.” In ‘Luster,’ Young Black Women Feel Uneasy in a White American Home 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Seesawing with uncanny adeptness between facetiousness and earnestness, she keeps readers slightly off balance as she works her way through moving portraits of vulnerability, awkwardness, resignation and melancholic fortitude. ‘Bark:’ Lorrie Moore casts her eye on modern relationships 2014-04-10T21:14:38Z It's somewhat stiffly acted by non-professionals, and its earnestness might leave you with a hankering for the sly humour of mumblecores. Slackistan ? review 2010-12-02T23:16:00Z A pop-bluegrass duo consisting of Nils d’Aulaire on banjo and Jay Klaitz on guitar, the pair play pleasing, jangling songs that grow on you with their exaggerated earnestness and wide-eyed drama. ‘The History of Future Folk’: a goofy, charming space jam 2013-07-11T21:21:09Z Mr. Hammer in this movie — and, really, in every movie — gets by on variations of earnestness. For Your Reconsideration: Supporting Whom Exactly? 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z The lip-synched performances, necessary and expedient for shooting a show of this nature, are also an incursion of startling insincerity into an environment that privileges earnestness over all. Television: ?Glee?: Attitude, Yes, but Without a Song in Its Heart 2010-04-10T04:10:00Z Those who chose to rap in the eight bars took more thematic latitude, with vividly detailed verses about sex and violence comically juxtaposed against Jean’s earnestness. How Big Can a TikTok Duet Get? 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z But the film’s most sympathetic character may be her erstwhile love interest Max — played with clean-cut sincerity by Jake Lacy — who backs her up with empathy, unconditional support and stalwart earnestness. Critic’s Notebook: The sisters of summer “He was lighthearted, and he had a positivity and earnestness and sense of authority about him,” she said. Superman Locks Up a Heart in Tokyo 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z There’s a lot of fun to be had in this liminal space between earnestness and just kidding. Here’s Why Norm Macdonald Was Comedy Royalty. It’s Not ‘S.N.L.’ 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Is it that I find her earnestness both poignant and poisonous? Perspective | Help, I keep watching Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop TV show 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Two recent fundraising efforts showcase the museum’s ingenuity and earnestness. Finish line in sight, African American museum still seeks money and objects 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z At the time, I thought a lot about whether Cobain was actually “cool” and disaffected, or whether his coolness merely masked a deeper earnestness. Nirvana’s “Nevermind” Made, and Unmade, Alternative Culture 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z The showdown between Ruskin and Whistler was, in miniature, the clash between Victorian earnestness and insurgent modernism. At the Sackler, a glorious show of Whistler’s London works, paired with Japanese prints Photograph: Alamy There's something a young actor in couture talking about the "art" that could be truly grating, but Mara is genuine in her earnestness. Rooney Mara: 'I've been guarded since I was three years old' 2013-03-02T06:00:00Z What most distinguishes his portrayals goes hand in hand with his modest yet superb vocal artistry: the earnestness and authenticity that he exudes onstage. It’s the Highest-Profile Challenge of an Earnest Tenor’s Career 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z To explore the question with any kind of earnestness demands a careful and human consideration of all that led to the riots. The Unrest That Led to the L.A. Riots, Twenty-Five Years On 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z It's that nice-guy eager earnestness that, as much as his acting skills, is getting him so much work. Profiling Joseph Gordon-Levitt: The Crowd-Sourced Version 2011-09-14T08:25:00Z And his speculation was that something about the distance — not just the distance between now and 1934, but also from the Civil Rights' earnestness of the first go-round — makes things seem funny at times. Aaron Sorkin read Breitbart for inspiration as he wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird" script 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Garman portrays Pastor Paul with an inviting earnestness that never dissolves into the gelatinous. Critic’s Notebook: Varied New Works at 38th Annual Humana Festival 2014-04-02T18:26:14Z It has some of the earnestness of the traditional "issue" movie, but it's also a drum-tight thriller with a neat twist in the tail. Dirk Bogarde's Victim shines a light on London's shadowy past 2011-08-08T09:42:02Z Her pulse has quickened, and the jadedness of adolescence has given way to earnestness. Listen to Lorde’s Fiery New Single, “Green Light” 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z In old soul and R&B, even when the lines became overly stylized and ripe for parody, they still retained an earnestness listeners remember. Lonnae O’Neal: Whither the mack-daddies? 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z But his clear passion for the franchise, and his sheer earnestness, hints there may be something more in there. 'Daily Show' Trevor Noah Debut: Much Room to Grow 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z She’s flexible enough to reflect each woman’s differing concerns and personality, from the high schooler’s fear and earnestness, to the mother’s conflicted depression and the hermit’s earthy insight. Review | ‘Red Clocks’ imagines a world where abortion is outlawed. And it feels eerily real. 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z As Diesel, Cook is both stolid and volatile, his depraved earnestness joining principle and duty, will and obligation. The Goofball Criminals of Paul Schrader’s “Dog Eat Dog” 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z He gets the earnestness but also the steely determination. "Wall Street" a powerfully told sequel 2010-05-14T21:25:00Z This song’s earnestness had embarrassed me a bit in high school, but in recent years I’ve been struck by its powerful beauty. Listen to Sinéad O’Connor 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z The four soloists, separate from the choir, sang with clarity and earnestness; the violins of Concert Royal played with spirited attack. Music Review: ‘Messiah’ at St. Thomas and Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-17T05:15:05Z Irony, sarcasm, and snark are not entirely inappropriate responses to the pain of our separation from one another, or to the suffocating quality of too much earnestness. Greg Jackson on the Dialogue Between Myth and Reality 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z The result is an aw-shucks sort of earnestness in many of his characters. There’s Something Fishy About This Refuge in the Colorado Wilds 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z The employee, who is also the guy torn between the sisters, is played by Aaron Bliden, an actor who brings earnestness and a graceful touch to just about everything he’s in. Review | The romantic musical ‘Fly by Night’ will pull the rug out from under you 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z A presumed authenticity and earnestness such that they do not require patriotic embellishment? The casual-Friday look that GOP candidates can’t get enough of 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z In four numbers, she made a show of earnestness. Beyoncé’s True Political Statement This Week? It Wasn’t at a Clinton Rally 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z They may lurch into the ludicrous, but with surprising earnestness these films nonetheless play out a three-way philosophical debate: between enlightened rationalism, orthodox Christianity and renewed paganism. Cults, human sacrifice and pagan sex: how folk horror is flowering again in Brexit Britain 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z I think she's calculating, but there is an earnestness in her. "Does trauma-bonding negate the love?": Stars Erin Moriarty and Jai Courtney talk "Catching Dust" 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z In place of the earnestness that has marked so many architecture shows in recent years, their save-the-world drive, this one is cerebral, well-tailored and faintly ironic. 'Make New History,' the second Chicago Architecture Biennial, brings the focus back to square one 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z A lot of sensitive-guy earnestness surrounding a burst of female pop precision and dazzle — that was this year’s Global Citizen Festival on Saturday on the Great Lawn of Central Park. Review: Global Citizen Festival, Including Beyoncé and Pearl Jam, Mixes Music and Activism 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z But the exaggerated self-incrimination is mostly there to skim some embarrassing earnestness off the top of what she's actually come to say, which is usually something tender, wise, and kind. Have we forgotten how to read critically? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z That's not necessarily a compliment, but if I had to choose between the expensive dreariness of "Robin Hood" and the ultraviolent earnestness of "Ironclad," I would root for the low-budget underdog. 'Ironclad': Paul Giamatti leads a fine cast into bloody battle 2011-07-07T19:25:07Z "But it's also blessed with none of the earnestness of the 60s counter-cultural movement – let's tear it all down, with our tongues in our cheeks." Billy Liar ? still in town 2010-09-01T20:30:00Z Ms. Graham, as ever, walked a delicate line between worldliness and earnestness. Review: From a Veteran Singer to a Newcomer, a Note of Welcome 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Lest the earnestness of his parody fall on deaf ears, he makes sure his true feelings can be discerned behind the character’s veneer of Deep State anxiety. 'This show traffics in culture wars': Jordan Klepper on his Alex Jones-inspired satire 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z I'd prayed so hard my stomach and jaw had hurt from the earnestness of my meditation. "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" helped me reconsider my painful Evangelical childhood 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z And if Norm Lewis is a vocally underpowered Porgy, he brings earnestness and grace to the role. Critic?s Notebook: Did ?The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess? Meets Its Goal? 2012-01-14T00:31:27Z Here, as on “Klepper,” jokes take the edge off the rage and sand down the square corners of the earnestness. Jordan Klepper, Wyatt Cenac, and the Citizen Journalism of Class Clowns Made Good 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Look," he says, a sudden earnestness flooding his gentle drawl, "I never trained as an actor, and I'm really aware of it. A fine Roman 2011-03-19T00:03:00Z There’s a desperate earnestness about its quest for both spiritual meaning and old-fashioned romance, its determination to be “the kind of movie they don’t make anymore,” although in this case nobody ever did. “Winter’s Tale” and America’s tortured quest for the divine 2014-02-15T17:00:00Z An episode in which real-life survivors of shootings gave interviews to camera put me off the show for a while; the earnestness was appreciated, but it was, as with so much else here, so much. American Crime's Second Season Was the Perfect Antidote to Fuller House 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Prestini, to judge from her own work, puts a premium on large-scale earnestness. Review | Serious music, from Turkey to the Colorado 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z He became known in particular for his on-camera pose of studied earnestness, one hand cupping an ear. Gary Owens, Announcer on ‘Laugh-In,’ Dies at 80 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z But it warms a jaded heart to see her earnestness validated. Wearing Its Topicality Lightly, “The Bold Type” Is a Show to Warm a Jaded Heart 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z In a phone interview, Mr. Kipiniak said the earnestness of the reviewer’s hurt feelings over such a trifle made it prime comedic fodder. Noted: A YouTube Series: ‘Real Actors Read Yelp Reviews’ 2012-08-01T21:48:35Z Like another Canadian import, the Broadway hit “Come From Away,” “Spoon River” exudes a good-natured earnestness that stays shy of cloying piety. Review: What the Singing Dead Remember in ‘Spoon River’ 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Unlike television’s Glee, which it does bear comparison to, is free of earnestness and messages of social responsibility. Pitch Perfect: Back to School Isn't Usually This Much Fun 2012-09-27T14:00:21Z I was always wondering about the sheer earnestness of it, in a world that is as cynical as our world is. As ‘Come From Away’ Closes, a Newfoundlander Heads Back Home 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z But it was Letterman’s pre-internet earnestness that was such a valuable corrective to the rest of TV. David Letterman Was the Last Pre-Internet Late-Night Star 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Her secret: She does not confuse seriousness with earnestness. Review | How a young conductor and stunning violinist brought an NSO program to life 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Mbue conveys their devotion with such earnestness that these pages practically ache. ‘Behold the Dreamers’: The one novel Donald Trump should read now 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Informally known as the “orb gang,” they celebrate Williamson’s mystical utterances with various levels of irony and earnestness — and a passion some of her rival Democrats might envy. Marianne Williamson’s fans made her the ‘orb queen’ of the 2020 campaign 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z The film wears the awkwardness of inexperience, but charms with earnestness. Disney Creates a ‘Launchpad’ for Underrepresented Filmmakers 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z But with all that earnestness, is Gurung any fun at a cocktail party? Is Prabal Gurung the most woke man in fashion? 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z “The Gates” was an overt attempt by ABC to tap into the housebound, preteen “Twilight” audience; HBO’s “True Blood” is a camp reaction to Robert Pattinson’s flat earnestness. My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead 2010-12-03T15:18:00Z Ms. Kennedy, who narrates, avoids taking an explicit position, but her point of view is clear both in the story she tells and in the film’s tone, which oscillates between earnestness and dark humor. | 'The Fence': Fences Make Good Neighbors? This One Has Its Doubters 2010-09-16T04:00:00Z Monk is not a political artist, but she closes “Indra’s Net” on a utopian note, idealistic but persuasive in its earnestness: a reminder, if not a wish, necessary early in her career, and especially today. At 80, Meredith Monk Is Still Seeking Ways to Communicate 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z As demonstrated by a recent series of speeches, fundraising emails and other communications, Trump has erased any lingering doubt about the sincerity and earnestness of his antisemitic and white supremacist values and beliefs. Trump’s channeling Hitler for protection 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z Into this sprawling sideshow slipped Shaw, a curious addition with her wispy frame and her earnestness and her lack of anything approaching hustle. Among New York’s sidewalk sideshows, 2 goats and a story of despair 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z Ice Spice’s fans connect with her earnestness, an enthusiasm that is genuine but decidedly unpressed. She went from 'Munch' to Munchkins in a New York minute. But Ice Spice is just getting started 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z He continued: “These weren’t, like, cool records. People weren’t writing about them as if they were cool, because I think that earnestness is often uncomfortable for some people.” Review: The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie turn back the clock in Seattle 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z People weren’t writing about them as if they were cool, because I think that earnestness is often uncomfortable for some people. Ben Gibbard reflects on two era-defining albums ahead of Seattle shows 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z So her relative earnestness on the page is something of a surprise, though hardly a shock. Aparna Nancherla makes comedy out of self-doubt. In her memoir, it's a way of life 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z Barrymore’s entire brand is about authenticity, kindness and an earnestness so pure it can melt the icy heart of the most committed cynic. Without writers, Drew Barrymore's adorkable brand unraveled in a week 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z A cross-cultural vision of the frontier in which two wounded weirdos recognize something deep within each other and hold tightly to their connection, the film has a tender earnestness. All the movies directed by big-name actors at TIFF, ranked 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z You can scoff at the earnestness of that notion, and also perhaps at the mildly disingenuous pose of a festival as premiere-driven and buzz-dependent as any other. ‘All of Us Strangers’ soars at Telluride, but ‘Saltburn’ barely leaves a mark 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z The earnestness of my writing and lyricism, it’s the fulcrum upon which people like or dislike the band. Ben Gibbard reflects on two era-defining albums ahead of Seattle shows 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z Ms Talbot said the "earnestness of bidding" suggested the interested parties believe it to be a piece from early in the period. Diss auctioneers in shock as broken vase sells for £49k 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z He covers pumas, passages and pavement with equal parts mirth and earnestness, resulting in a surprising reflection on what we owe to nature. Lessons from Antarctica about Raising Kids in the Climate Crisis 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z And while her songs can provide an exhilarating challenge with octave drops, melismatic melodies and word density, they are forgiving as long as you commit to the earnestness or the screaming. The ultimate Taylor Swift karaoke power rankings 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z People who know Ms. Ellison say they have been struck by her earnestness and her willingness to admit her own failings. Inside the Private Writings of Caroline Ellison, Star Witness in the FTX Case 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z You can relax in a comfortable, low stakes environment where earnestness and ridiculousness merit equal respect. The L.A. Times and Radio Korea are hosting a karaoke contest. Here's how you can compete 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Ant, which offers loans, credit, investments and insurance to hundreds of millions of customers and small businesses, said it would "comply with the terms of the penalty in all earnestness and sincerity". China hits Jack Ma's Ant Group with nearly $1bn fine 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z “We will comply with the terms of the penalty in all earnestness and sincerity and continue to further enhance our compliance governance,” Ant Group said in a prepared statement. Ant Group fined $985 million by Chinese regulators 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Ant Group said in a statement that it “has been conducting business rectification proactively since 2020” and that it would “comply with the terms of the penalty in all earnestness and sincerity.” China Hits Ant Group with $985 Million Fine 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Full of breathtaking showmanship, choreographic pizzazz and the visual dazzle of postcard sets, “New York, New York” is held back by an overstuffed, under-dramatized book that wears its earnestness on its sleeve. Ranking this year's Tony best musical nominees from worst to best 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z Dubus, meanwhile, models this vulnerability by risking earnestness inside of a literary culture that rewards the armor of irony. 'Sand and Fog' author Andre Dubus III crafts a white-working-class Buddha story 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z These videos are different from unintentionally cringy videos in which an overabundance of earnestness combined with a lack of self-awareness leaves viewers feeling uncomfortable. Welcome to CringeTok, Where Being Insufferable Can Be Lucrative 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z For a working gardener, I’d suggest his book “Down to Earth,” in which Don shares his gardening and landscaping philosophy with his trademark blend of earnestness and wonderment. Tend to your garden while listening to these audiobooks 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z When he finally arrived, he struck me as being a little irreverent in contrast to the earnestness of the other advocates. L.A. Affairs: I had my reasons for not dating white men. Then something changed 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z When she, too, experienced sagging ratings, Jones dispensed with Oprah-like earnestness and ventured into more lurid subject matter. Perspective | Jerry Springer, TV’s master of trash, and the world he left us 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z But the public came to know and like his earnestness, his goofiness. At Richard J. Riordan's book club, nearly 30 years of Proust, wine and friends 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z “It was cool do that in earnestness. It felt right,” said Yeun. O-Town. Hoobastank. Tori Amos. Inside 'Beef's' nostalgic needle drops 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z In an interview, Mr. al-Bukhaiti said that “unlike in previous times, we sensed earnestness from Saudi Arabia.” What Do Peace Talks in Yemen Mean for Its 8-Year War? 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z And he has the earnestness of his character, at one point saying during an interview: “Wow. So you’re like the political reporter, but you’re so nice. We were expecting a little meaner.” From 'Boy Meets World' to the ballot box 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z It was catnip for a generation trapped between irony and earnestness, that wanted to mock everything but also needed to care. Review | Can guest hosts save ‘The Daily Show’? 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z There it all is: the earnestness, the goofy slacker-speak, the gracious and good-hearted honoring of other people’s good works. Perspective | The full Keanu: Mellowest guy on the planet to onscreen killing machine 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z As I paced around outside the theater at intermission, I kept wondering if I’d missed something, if perhaps my reading of the show as being aimed at earnestness was taking the work too seriously. Highs and lows in Seattle Public Theater, Reboot’s ‘110 in the Shade’ 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z After rising to fame with songs about her awkward, unpopular teen years, she now embraces cringe and earnestness. Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour opening weekend: Tears, joy and ‘therapy’ 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Fraser has always been an earnest person, and that earnestness has carried him throughout his career — from the early stardom to the later fallow years and, now, during this gratifying upswing. Brendan Fraser knows the hurt -- that’s why he stands by 'The Whale' 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Still, there’s no denying that Fierstein’s sly comic sensibility and unabashed earnestness serve the material. Review | ‘Kinky Boots’ struts into Olney Theatre Center at just the right time 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z The smug earnestness of Seattle I love, and really my favorite people live there. Lauren Weedman returns to Seattle with new solo show 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z “Hourglass” suffers for its sometimes mawkish language, places where Goddard reaches for earnestness but sounds insincere, or just immature. A debut novel's funny Valentine to love in all its icky absurdity 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Even viewers who find the movie overly arcane, repetitive and undisciplined have found it difficult to resist the Daniels’ earnestness and go-for-broke vision. Perspective | This year’s Oscar nominations featured a unicorn: Genuine surprise 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z As a narrator, Won maintains a weary earnestness, acknowledging the bitterness of his situation without allowing it to embitter him. Review | ‘The Sense of Wonder’ puts a fictional spin on Jeremy Lin’s ascendance 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Repertory Company and is now playing at the Hudson MainStage Theatre, wears its earnestness on its sleeve. Review: The main reason to see “Eisenhower”? Actor John Rubinstein's earnest portrayal of Ike 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z And like in the game, it portrays this all with earnestness and not an ounce of irony. Review | HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ stays true to the game, and hits just as hard An artistic stubbornness glides beneath a disarming earnestness. How 'Gender Queer: A Memoir' became America's most banned book 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Has the grantLOVE project struggled with being taken seriously, given its earnestness? Alexandra Grant’s new coffee table book examines what it means to be a civic artist 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z With her red-lipped rictus grin, her eyes that can beam with earnestness one minute and deaden with murderous resignation the next, Goth makes a sublime demon, but she’s also a creature of irreducible pathos. The best movie performances of 2022 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z It reflects the city’s generous investments in civic spaces and the earnestness of its politics. The Bike Thieves of Burlington, Vermont 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z On her latest project, “Hold the Girl,” Sawayama takes the earnestness we got a little of on “Bad Friend” and runs with it. 4 concerts to catch in the D.C. area over the next several days 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z The tall, dark and bespectacled ghost detective now has millions of followers and fans who gravitate toward his earnestness and intensity. The Comedy Store is rumored to be haunted. So we went ghost hunting with the pros 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Acts of unbroken earnestness, like those of unrelieved wickedness, are dull to watch and boring to talk about. Column: Why are TV's two big fantasy shows so epically humorless? 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z At times, Reed’s youthful earnestness and desire to do and be good shine through. Review | ‘Which Side Are You On’ tells a story for and of our times 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z She was speaking in that ironic tone that suggests extreme earnestness. The Climate Novelist Who Transcends Despair 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z In “Funny Pages,” a corrosive comedy of artistic aspiration and failure, he seems to be working overtime to strip away even the slightest patina of optimism or earnestness from Robert’s journey. Review: ‘Funny Pages,’ a blistering, comedic portrait of a teen cartoonist, isn't a calm mix 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z This is the way a meme ends: its nihilism co-opted into earnestness by embarrassingly sincere lookers-on not online enough to know better, and trying too hard. Opinion | The Dark Brandon meme can’t escape death 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z These shifts in the film between earnestness and anything-for-a-laugh comedy sometimes feel off, allowing the audience to excuse the characters’ bad behavior as silly, not reckless. Review: 'Not Okay' tackles the seductiveness of internet celebrity, plus more weekend movies 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Miss Manners says this in all earnestness — but not because she recognizes that employees are seldom in a position to discipline their bosses for misbehavior. Perspective | Miss Manners: How long is appropriate to wait for an email response? 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z But the earnestness of the narrative is such that the visual shortcomings barely matter. Review: Love reigns in Billy Porter's sweet and intelligent rom-com 'Anything's Possible' 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Their level of earnestness varies, but they are, generally, trying to be funny; even withering takedowns like Taylor’s are laced with quips. The Accidental Media Critics of YouTube 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z American dating shows like “The Bachelor” or “Love Is Blind” cloak themselves in an earnestness that never quite masks the cynicism at their core. The way-too-complete guide to 'Love Island' 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z “That earnestness was important. They’re making money, which in many other contexts is the root of all evil. But here, it’s doing a lot of good.” A Midwestern couple figured out how to beat the lottery. Then Hollywood called 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Sen. Chris Murphy, the Connecticut Democrat spearheading the talks, penned an op-ed published Thursday by Fox News vouching for the earnestness of the effort. Senate Democrats work to allay GOP concerns on bipartisan gun talks 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z I’m a big fan of nonsense, ridiculousness and earnestness somehow all mixed together. Tig Notaro on music, VIP couches with history, and saying 'Hello Again' at the Theatre at Ace Hotel 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z When another speaker urged everyone to stand up and engage in a favorite Rivera exercise — point your thumbs at yourself and shout, “ I am! Somebody!” — no one rolled their eyes at the earnestness. Column: At Tom Rivera's memorial service, his dream of 'Future Leaders' is fulfilled 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z There’s an earnestness that wasn’t there originally, a tone that acknowledges it has been asked an important question that warrants a straight answer. A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z “She didn’t have that gift, but she compensated for it extremely successfully with a kind of self-effacing earnestness that won people to her side.” Opinion | Kathy Hochul Is Standing on a Very High Glass Cliff 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Nursed in the heyday of neoliberalism with an aversion to earnestness, the mind-set of a cosmopolitan Generation X made little room for labor interests and imagined that unions were for people who carried lunch pails. Why Condé Nast Staffers Are Unionizing: ‘Prestige Doesn’t Pay the Bills’ 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Speaking of nonsense and ridiculousness and earnestness, I loved your whole anticipation and build bit that you did with the Indigo Girls in your 2018 show “Happy to Be Here.” Tig Notaro on music, VIP couches with history, and saying 'Hello Again' at the Theatre at Ace Hotel 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z “Things have been so scary lately with Russia,” states TikTok user @MojoX with dead earnestness in a post from early March, “that I went out and got myself a Gen X bomb shelter.” Gen X TikTok is recycling the culture of the late Cold War, and what's old is new again 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z This unabashed earnestness found its way into his projects. The climax of Will Smith’s radical-vulnerability era 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z Witnessing an outpouring of earnestness for something she helped create drove home the magnitude of its relevance. Latino animators break through at the Oscars. They hope change is just beginning 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z But he also is a Kansan by birth and in spirit, and his Midwestern earnestness somehow didn’t settle with an East Coast fan base that has an edge. Perspective | Kevin Willard did fine work at Seton Hall. But at Maryland, ‘fine’ won’t be good enough. 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z He has an everyman’s earnestness and a charisma that pops; he is beleaguered but not bowed. Waging war, wielding words: Zelensky's speeches have made him a folk hero 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z There’s something about the Bob Baker Marionette Theater staff, perhaps their unfiltered earnestness, that makes people want to help. Puppet weddings and box-truck shows: How L.A.'s Bob Baker Marionette Theater survived COVID 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Children receive nicknames to offset the earnestness built into the meanings of their given names. Fly High, Frog Princess! Well Done, Chen No. 3! 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Mensah-Stock, the first Black woman to win an Olympic gold medal in wrestling, spoke with an earnestness and a thoughtfulness that were hard to forget. The Most Memorable Sports Moments of 2021, According to Us 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Wachowski brings this unapologetic earnestness and sense of pleasure to “The Matrix Resurrections,” which is also a welcome reminder that big action films can be well lit, stunningly designed and, yes, colorful too. Review: Lana Wachowski's 'The Matrix Resurrections' is a deeply felt, colorful remix 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z On ‘Elf,’ you get the earnestness, the love and the joy between a father and a son. Amazon's new rom com gives 'Mexican Nancy Meyers.' These classics inspired it 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z The doctor didn’t know what to make of the woman but was bowled over by her earnestness. One woman helped move the needle on Black vaccination in South L.A. She's 'Mama Tsega' 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z When he isn’t playing an alt-universe version of himself, his stronger performances still tap into that earnestness. Analysis | Welcome to our future of omnipresent Timothée Chalamet 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z There is a sunny earnestness to Dawn Dorland, an un-self-conscious openness that endears her to some people and that others have found to be a little extra. Who Is the Bad Art Friend? 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z These two populations, standing on either side of the middle-of-life churn, share curiosity and delight and earnestness. Perspective | The best pandemic advice comes from the very young and the very old 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Russell, like Mary in the early seasons, is all earnestness and positivity — a rich comedic balance to the hardened mentor. Analysis | Ed Asner’s most beloved roles were curmudgeons with soft hearts 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z “He had that sweetness and earnestness,” Chase says. How David Chase found the perfect cast for his 'Sopranos' prequel ‘The Many Saints of Newark’ 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Although Michaels was no longer a rock star, he was excellent at playing one on TV — he projected earnestness, as shiny and polished as an old stone flushed through a rock tumbler. ‘Open with a funeral, end with a gunshot’: Inside the original ‘Behind the Music’ 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z There’s a real earnestness to the whole movie that surpasses some of its very manufactured by Disney elements. Jungle Cruise desperately wants to be The Mummy 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z Tom Barrack snowed them, by projecting an earnestness and a cocksure confidence in his own knowingness that television finds irresistible. Column: Tom Barrack's willing enabler — TV news 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z "From sitting down and talking to him more, there was this earnestness, this kind of child-like innocence almost. To me, it felt like someone who was fragile and hiding in this bravado," Smythe noted. Falling for Pharma Bro: Christie Smythe's telling of her relationship with Martin Shkreli 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z On the most basic level, this isn't mysterious: The problem with Lindell, from the point of view of blatantly cynical right-wing operatives like Meadows and Cipollone, is precisely the sincerity and earnestness I mentioned above. Is the Trump "reinstatement" fanfic actually dangerous, or just hilarious? (Spoiler: Yes) 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z “The woman who sat opposite Martin Bashir displayed a dignity, composure, and heartbreaking earnestness that bore no resemblance to the tawdry creature created in the media,” Brown wrote. ‘Three of us in this marriage’: 26 years after Princess Diana’s interview with Martin Bashir, the world awaits her son Prince Harry’s interview with Oprah 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z The chemist eyed his guest with a look that conveyed both satisfaction and deadly earnestness. Book excerpt: Working for Syria’s chemical weapons program and spilling its secrets to the CIA 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z The narrator dithers over how much she wants a leadership position in this unofficial hierarchy of casual dismissiveness, earnestness avoidance and radical obsolescence. Review: Can a novel wrestle Twitter and win? Super-tweeter Patricia Lockwood tries 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z The sensitive earnestness of her performance in “Together Together” is something new from Harrison, who first made a name for herself as an acerbic, absurdist stand-up comedian. In a breakout role, stand-up comedian Patti Harrison subverts rom-com rules in 'Together Together' 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z “They’re not waiting for my disquisition on the state of the world,” Mr. Brown said with self-aware earnestness. What Jerry Brown Could Teach Joe Biden 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z As much as anything else, the movie’s gentleness, earnestness and vulnerability connect it to another time. ‘You've got romance’: On creating the classical backlot style of 'Sylvie's Love' 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z And at the moment the industry seems to hold back from the sort of earnestness that gives us glimpses of an artist’s personality. Review: The Game Awards wants to take video games seriously, but is the industry ready to follow? 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z The cool kids, including President Barack Obama, occasionally mocked him behind his back for his cornball earnestness. Get Me Meacham! Biden Brings Back the Media’s Good Old Days 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z Madonna did not even attempt to offer the look-into-the-camera earnestness that celebrities typically delivered in public service announcements. In 1990, Rock the Vote and Madonna shook up politics. Will the youth vote do the same in 2020? 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Trump has fed off the earnestness of the faithful and the fanatics, the disenfranchised laborer and the ambitious business owner, the powerless and the power hungry. Perspective | Amy Coney Barrett took her bows and promised to be independent. The president reveled in the applause. 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z In Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign, Black Republicans were tasked with vouching for his reputation and earnestness with Black audiences. Perspective | Trump’s message to Black voters: Vote for me. (But really, don’t vote.) 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z It had been 20 years since Gevorkyan last held a Kalashnikov, but he spoke with the earnestness of the priest he was and the rhetoric befitting the fighter he hoped to be. They lay competing claims to Nagorno-Karabakh. The war over it defines them both 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z There is an earnestness to Seth Gottesdiener’s voice that is rather disarming for those who actively wonder how united our states really are. Granderson: Social justice activist embarking on cross-country bike trip to understand America 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z But even Monáe’s magnetism can't elevate “Antebellum” above roots that are firmly planted in the blood and soil of pulp exploitation, shaky liberal earnestness and rank opportunism. Review | Fantasy-horror film ‘Antebellum’ is both undercooked and awkwardly overstated 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z And Hruska, bless his heart, leans into the job with an earnestness that belies the act of deceitfulness he perpetrates with each press of the touch screen. Perspective | What does baseball sound like during a pandemic? Loneliness — and hope. 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Patel’s natural earnestness has rarely been more affecting or versatile, and not just because the actor melts so naturally into a top hat and tailcoat. Review: Armando Iannucci's 'David Copperfield' is a delightfully revisionist take on Dickens 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z His empathy and earnestness won him interviews with survivors and victims who wouldn’t talk to anyone else, his daughter said. Peyton Whitely, a Seattle Times reporter for 41 years and the first ‘mobile journalist,’ dies at 75 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z His delivery is as expressive as it is virtuosic; his lyrics become a poetic analog for Hamilton’s own strengths and weaknesses — his emotional earnestness, political transparency and formidable, sometimes insufferable intellect. Review: From Broadway to Disney+, 'Hamilton' speaks brilliantly to a time of fear and protest 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z |
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