As damning as it sounds, "Distances" has a whiff of earnestness, but it is the earnestness of artists in pursuit of human understanding.
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There's a certain earnestness to the making of VR now.
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He became famous for his infectious underdog story and earnestness.
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I don't remember what that kind of earnestness feels like.
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There is no hint of embarrassment, just full throttle earnestness.
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From the start, the team has blended earnestness with foolishness.
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I like that it cannot help its fundamental goofy earnestness.
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But what's most striking about the movie is its earnestness.
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Their emotional earnestness can seem like another mode of concealment.
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The song finds a breezy balance between earnestness and exhilaration.
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There's sort of a wave of earnestness washing over us.
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But earnestness mixed with a sort of little bit of arrogance.
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Yet he retains a boyish earnestness that even Democrats find endearing.
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Beneath the Bible-thumping earnestness was a calculating and ambitious pol.
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" And Mr. Countee's earnestness left her feeling "very scared to reconnect.
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Despite Lott's apparent earnestness, bureaucratic hurdles will likely doom his idea.
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That is a thing a person wrote with 100 percent earnestness.
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Baldwin had heard her son say this before, with total earnestness.
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"How could we keep that earnestness and incorporate more rhythm?" he recollects.
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Purnell plays Tess with a doe-eyed earnestness that is truly endearing.
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But as with any adult, my youthful earnestness has fizzled a bit.
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But Dishonored 2 has a kind of cool, professional earnestness to it.
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The earnestness is undercut by the turns of phrase in the song.
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While he was alive, that bald earnestness made his music feel cathartic.
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I suspect that this earnestness is a product of cash, not country.
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The result was coverage saturated by sentimentality, expressing nothing but dull earnestness.
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But it's bunk executed with earnestness and a stunning level of craftsmanship.
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The opposition's events often had the ritual earnestness of a campus protest.
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"I want to go toward the end for some earnestness," Favreau said.
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Ms. Graham, as ever, walked a delicate line between worldliness and earnestness.
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Two chapters in "Cleanness" recount sexual encounters with unrelenting candor and earnestness.
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I've seen the earnestness with which acquiring editors go about their acquisitions.
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And this film does that with the perfect balance of earnestness and humor.
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We're crying over Chalamet's earnestness, too, and his palpable awe at his castmates.
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The weirdest thing, to lapsed-whatever non-American like me, was the earnestness.
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Her perspective as an outsider, as well as her raw earnestness, moved me.
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And trust me, this level of earnestness is deeply humiliating for me, too.
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And at its best, Euphoria leavens its earnestness with twisted flights of surreality.
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Slick earnestness is a tough swallow — a jagged little pill of its own.
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But the earnestness with which the white characters are portrayed frustrates that generosity.
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Powell is fifty-nine, with gray hair, dark eyebrows, and a boyish earnestness.
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What works better, and what really unlocks the film overall, is Billy's earnestness.
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To me, that's great satire, because there's an emotion and earnestness to it.
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Who, whose wisdom is expressed solely in philosophical maxims, radiates regal earnestness and care.
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The show follows suit, offering no punchline to cut through the earnestness at hand.
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The best moments in Pixar's history prize whimsy, imagination, and an open-hearted earnestness.
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They are a way to avoid the emotional risk of earnestness, every teen's nightmare.
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At one point, he sings the hymn "The Old Rugged Cross" with heartbreaking earnestness.
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At its best, Derry Girls hits the emotional intersection of cringe, earnestness, and slapstick.
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Ben Bliss sang Tamino with a tender yet ample lyric tenor voice and earnestness.
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But our collective mourning of Johnston indicates that perhaps there is hope for earnestness.
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During our meeting, Wong switched between what looked like nerves and a quiet earnestness.
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Will earnestness and conviction continue to seem insufficient in the face of cynical trolling?
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Our national personality exists somewhere between America and Britain on the earnestness-stoicism index.
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It makes her human, and she brings also a sense of earnestness and candor.
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Okay, okay, I can feel you rolling your eyes, and I get it. Earnestness?
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As a director, he's got an impeccable ability to balance painful earnestness with biting humor.
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In his own words The love letter shows Kennedy's earnestness to see the unnamed woman.
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That would cut down on the earnestness, for sure, and keep us on our toes.
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Despite the film's earnestness and strong performances, the drama suffers somewhat from those inevitable comparisons.
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But it's getting stale, and the comic book movie could do with more unapologetic earnestness.
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The earnestness of "Sing for the Moment" resulted in a questionable direction for the genre.
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There's an earnestness to it that you don't hear on the radio at the moment.
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Colbert clearly wants to believe in unity, an earnestness that has always driven his comedy.
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I don't question the earnestness of these entertainers' objections to Trump, which are wholly warranted.
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As embodied with heartbreaking earnestness by Mr. Blum, he is clumsy, irritating and mostly ineffectual.
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KS: So go through a few of those, and then answer Dick's question about earnestness.
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So here [on Big Mouth] we took out all the earnestness of Degrassi and Canadian programming.
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Is this a new era of introspection, earnestness, and (dare we day) maturity for South Park?
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Where many Twitter accounts reek of earnestness, Crenshaw discussed issues with a wry sense of humor.
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But Crossing Souls apes its inspirations with such earnestness and zeal that it's still incredibly entertaining.
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That earnestness is endearing and makes for a good story — though not necessarily a good idea.
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For all their earnestness, this was a choreographed and heavily indulgent performance of group auto-fellatio.
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"Hidden Figures" is periodically guilty of a sort of thudding earnestness, as well as emotional manipulation.
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Just watch the trailer and let the utter earnestness of the whole thing wash over you.
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"When destiny speaks, she speaks to me," the Tick proclaims, with Dudley Do-Right-type earnestness.
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His exuberance, intelligence, and good-natured manner perfectly captures Peter Parker's youthfulness, earnestness and moral center.
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The pastor's prayer was ad-libbed, and its length, its detail, and its earnestness surprised Oghi.
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The answers were boiler plate, delivered with a smile and the sincerest earnestness Brady can muster.
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As he sings about "the stars gittin' blurry," Daunno ventures a few moments of welcome earnestness.
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As Hedwige, Tell's devoted wife, the mellow-voiced mezzo-soprano Maria Zifchak sings with tender earnestness.
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The painting captures the earnestness of a boy who believes he's behaving as a man should.
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The tenor Ben Bliss is wonderful as Ferrando, with an ideally sweet voice and boyish earnestness.
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Mr. Hammer in this movie — and, really, in every movie — gets by on variations of earnestness.
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Vining set about her task with stubborn earnestness, sometimes sparring with the chamberlains who surrounded Akihito.
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And they are often delivered with a straight-to-the-audience, note-holding "American Idol" earnestness.
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Is a plodding, Pravda-like earnestness of tone and substance the only safe way going forward?
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But there is a real humanity and purity of purpose in asserting earnestness against the void.
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Platt, with his large, sensitive eyes and shivering earnestness, is a bit like an anxious poet.
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The best Spider-Man movies convincingly tap into the spirit of the character, his divine earnestness.
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Jenna Fischer appeared next and pleaded some more, and in her earnestness, accidentally called Jim's character Jeff.
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But something about this season lends some earnestness to the proceedings and it gets sad very quickly.
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His songs are beefed up with old-school earnestness, except when they're tender with old-school regret.
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They are impressive in their earnestness, lack of sense of entitlement and openness to learning and growth.
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VinBook certainly complicates his public image, adding a layer of earnestness that is both unexpected and welcome.
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But when Brown gets corny, he does it with an earnestness that borders on the joyfully surreal.
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What linked Street Fighter to White Wolf's gothic fantasy RPGs was the terribly unfashionable sense of earnestness.
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It's a lie so sweet you almost believe it, and Selina seems to have bought his earnestness.
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Fontana imbues Eliot with a forthright earnestness that scrubs away the archness and heaviness in the writing.
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Worse: Mr. Zuckerberg stuck with this mix of extreme earnestness and willful naïveté for far too long.
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Stella's largely unnecessary voice-over drives home the show's coming-of-age vibe and its naked earnestness.
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Like any of his dozens of colleagues, Kim speaks carefully, with deference, and a tone of earnestness.
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" Ben Brantley described the piece as exuding "a good-natured earnestness that stays shy of cloying piety.
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Their endurance is a testament to their ability to withstand cynicism and embrace earnestness no matter what.
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There's a familiar earnestness to a singer cradling a guitar, a ready-made aesthetic of mopey vulnerability.
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"Opening and closing his arms effectively emphasizes his points and creates a sense of earnestness," Railton says.
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There's an earnestness to his performance, and it's the same earnestness that makes the Raimi films so good: They dive head-first into the potential camp that comes with the territory of capes and spandex, and they embrace it; they are unafraid to be silly, and so is Dafoe.
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I admire the earnestness with which I re-watched old seasons to prepare me for the next one.
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He brings a welcome level of earnestness to, for instance, a gag about the school's nut-free campus.
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The hosts had a particular knack for asking the idiotic with chipper earnestness, spewing venom through simpering smiles.
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Deich, who is thirty-one, has a broad face, a brown beard, and a knowing sort of earnestness.
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The young artist's confident gaze, tinged with earnestness, reflect a disciplined romanticism that would propel Krasner for decades.
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There's a real earnestness to some of these bands, very emotional, particularly a band like The Wonder Years.
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Rakowitz expresses a similar earnestness in his practice to keep certain truths from disappearing from our collective memory.
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He blends earnestness with impishness, the vulnerabilities in his comments sometimes belying the bravado of his bouncy walk.
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To me the announcement sounded a bit vague, but there seemed to be a real earnestness to it.
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Or maybe a campaigning Wilson overstated his earnestness, even if O'Toole doesn't seem to see it that way.
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At the law school, Ms. Rao has a reputation for her earnestness, said David Rehr, senior associate dean.
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These performers cut through the swelling music and sometimes cloying earnestness to put across some valuable emotional truths.
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Jesus appears at decisive moments, and the youthful bass-baritone Adrian Rosas brought sweet earnestness to the role.
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"He was lighthearted, and he had a positivity and earnestness and sense of authority about him," she said.
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Hoang infused Stella's first person narration, which vacillates between earnestness, anxiety, and tremendous excitement, with her very personal perspective.
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Though I'm sure this chick was full of compassion and earnestness, I wanted to punch her in the face.
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What sets the film apart from other cult teen movies like Clueless or Mean Girls is its complete earnestness.
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Once the obvious is addressed, however, the story belongs entirely to Peter Parker in all of his adorable earnestness.
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They're a little Duchamp, and some Flavin and Turrell, with a dash of the earnestness of Mendieta (to taste).
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He speaks with a part-Swiss, part-Australian accent, and all the earnestness required of a tech-startup founder.
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Evan's character may have been born for the stage, but his earnestness and relatability sing through the book's pages.
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So when you're writing yours this year, try to focus on these four qualities: encouragement, humor, nostalgia and earnestness.
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The entire production is steeped in a mixture of archness and earnestness that prohibits emotional engagement and easy listening.
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Juliet seeks help with an earnestness that chafes against the myth of mental wellness as a matter of outreach.
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With Cook-Parrott playing every instrument himself, the record retains the scrappy charm and tender earnestness of previous releases.thetranspecos.
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But her earnestness was almost sadly out of place in music that wouldn't be challenging for a young student.
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It has also put a big steel fence around the altar to show its earnestness in protecting cultural heritage.
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When you take the time to be kind, it might take a moment for that earnestness to be processed.
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If anything, Tusk is about Portland, a city whose earnestness is matched only by the creativity of its food.
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There was an earnestness to that awful US version of Resident Evil that perfectly fit its time and context.
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They're a little Duchamp, and some Flavin and Turrell, with a dash of the earnestness of Mendieta (to taste).
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These early images possess charm and earnestness, which are aided by her use of a 35mm camera to make them.
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Lewis's work projects a sense of sincerity, an "incredible earnestness in her relationship with her subject," as Withrow puts it.
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"Whether this stuff is successful, people watch or don't watch, I want to believe it," he said with unapologetic earnestness.
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There are plenty of places on the internet for earnestness, but alongside a problematic stock photo isn't one of them.
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And shiningly brightly atop it all as the North Star of our heartfelt earnestness was a little thing called LiveJournal.
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If the characters share anything in common, it's an overdeveloped sense of earnestness, which makes their situation ripe for comedy.
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"The registration of this case shows that there is full commitment and earnestness," Punjab's law minister Rana Sanaullah told reporters.
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But it always seems to pull back at the right time, so don't let the movie's earnestness put you off.
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Their primary representative here is the steel-skinned (and generally underused) Russian giant Colossus, whose stern earnestness Deadpool joyously mocks.
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Erskine and Konkle play their roles straight, with such earnestness that it's easy to forget that they aren't actually thirteen.
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He had a try-hard earnestness, a damp corporate pall; he was courtly with guests, as if modelling bipartisan behavior.
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But there's an earnestness and honesty to the music that only comes about through Lindes' undying obsession with his hometown.
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Nicola is a petite blonde with an English accent who radiates empathy; there is an earnestness and innocence about her.
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George Stevens's 1965 film, "The Greatest Story Ever Told," also on demand, is an unwieldy film of frequently awkward earnestness.
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Medical journals wrote in scientific earnestness of the black patients — always black patients — whose intestines were clogged by watermelon seeds.
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Earnestness just doesn't seem to sell in the modern era; when it does, it doesn't feel like it can last.
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Feldstein is as charming as ever, delivering her lines with the earnestness and flourish of an extremely theatrical teenage girl.
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The article ridiculed her as naïve, sanctimonious and incoherent, but it also captured something real about her earnestness and motivations.
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But that earnestness could easily skew toward cheesiness — hence the popularity of grittier heroes and Stark's cynical and sardonic personality.
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Look, you've got to admire Lisa's earnestness and that she's kind of the sane member of the ship of fools.
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Or narrative absurdity may just be a clumsy self-protective denial of the inevitable earnestness that is the heartland's gift.
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There is an earnestness and sadness that you don't usually find in this sort of story, whether in Japan or America.
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His rapid-fire earnestness paired with his wide-eyed yet determined optimism made him the perfect person to yell 'BLATHERING BLATHERSKITE!
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And while earnestness with which we approached dressing up is very sweet, we can't help but cringe at those early #OOTDs.
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His morality, civic engagement, loyalty and earnestness (culturally, he's a generation older) are constantly disrupted, compromised and exploited by everyone else.
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Clinton did not entirely abandon earnestness on Tuesday, urging the crowd to unite behind her "positive, optimistic, hopeful and unifying" message.
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All this geeking out about a topic like modernism could be potentially distancing for viewers if it wasn't for Casey's earnestness.
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"The Wonder Years" can be almost unbearably poignant, but it is so unabashed in its earnestness that you can't begrudge it.
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There is an almost Wordsworthian earnestness in Goldsworthy's quest to connect with nature, which is awe-inspiring almost to a fault.
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"People are sometimes irritated with his earnestness, but I like it," she says when I note some leftists question Daou's motivations.
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Having just read the book, I missed King's energy and earnestness, and most of all his sense of relentless forward motion.
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" Ben Brantley described the piece, closing on July 29, as exuding "a good-natured earnestness that stays shy of cloying piety.
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But you have to admire the ability of Mr. Ridley and his actors to wrap the earnestness in a compelling package.
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Ultimately, he said, Warren's earnestness and credibility in "looking out for the little guy, for working people" will win over critics.
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He learned as well to project an aura of earnestness and cool authority, along with a generous dollop of fashion sense.
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But where Gauld appears jaded and world-weary, Snider exhibits an almost twee earnestness — calling the creative process "genius," for example.
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This tone of "sentimental earnestness" that you attribute to empowering ads is so tricky because for a lot of people, it works.
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Throughout the movie, Harbour, who beams with charisma and winsome earnestness in Stranger Things as Chief Hopper, mumbles through his Hellboy mask.
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Sanders is a solid candidate and his integrity and earnestness are admirable, but that can get lost in the noise of advocacy.
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These characteristics won't be a plus to everyone, but for those who enjoy the earnestness of the homage, they should work beautifully.
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That earnestness doesn't necessarily undercut, but does muddy one of the common arguments used to brush off this latest pivot of Kanye's.
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Even the slightest bit of irony makes it easy to blow that shit off, but when taken with complete earnestness, it's pure.
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I think the general earnestness of using a song people might not have heard before fits more into the show's DNA, anyway!
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It is too bad, then, that the camp of the Met Gala pink carpet this year was domesticated and defanged by earnestness.
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The soprano Sarah Beckham-Turner brought a warm voice and earnestness to Rosalba, a young journalist working on a biography of Grimaldi.
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The Kevin Costner thing says something about her when she puts the finger down the throat — about how she reacts to earnestness.
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There's something about her earnestness that never really plays well in a crowd and certainly doesn't give her the illusion of authority.
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Instead, the message is steeped in earnestness; an employee interacts directly with a consumer, demonstrates concern and commitment and ultimately establishes trust.
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Just when you think the earnestness in Speed is overkill, Annie steps in to give the film a once-over of realness.
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"When Andrea casted me, I'd never felt so much love in my life from just meeting someone," Coalson intoned, with complete earnestness.
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It's in these moments when the likes of Luke Cage became corny—so aggressive in its earnestness that I couldn't stand it.
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This narrative frame feels forced, though, teetering between earnestness and self-consciousness without solving the problem of uniting the three different plots.
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The earnestness of the situation speaks to me as a painter, trying to get something across while still maintaining a certain autonomy.
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The lobby, for that matter, has an earnestness and utility that other analogous spaces in the city tend to forfeit for grandeur.
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But it's precisely the willful vulnerability and earnestness of eager students that give them the strength required to produce ultimately radical things.
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As wildfires build on the horizon, you'll explore the Wyoming wilderness with a care and earnestness that's rare to find in games.
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It's more like a trap that so many well-meaning people, including Burnett and Evans, in all their earnestness, have fallen into.
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Buttigieg is like some nice young man selling magazine subscriptions whose earnestness and persistence generates enough pity sales to make his quota.
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Shively brings an earnestness to her portraits, which highlight a ragtag group of female muses, winsome in spirit and stimulating in dynamism.
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There's an earnestness to her (she says that she's obsessed with hot dogs) that makes her participation in the show cringe-inducing.
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Therein lies an honesty and earnestness that undermines the typical critical assessment that blandly describe Nut as humorous exercises of faux-naïveté.
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Surprisingly, for all its potentially goofy vibe, and despite its sometimes unabashed earnestness, the best of this kind of art transcends kitsch.
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Its earnestness can be heard in Sean Leon, its propulsive, anthemic qualities in Jazz Cartier, and its looming darkness in Jimmy Prime.
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Where it often fails is the steps of a courthouse, where it's the earnestness of the questions, or the way questions are worded.
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Gaga has never been one to hide her earnestness, and that honesty came through when Gaga talked to Kaufman about being famous, too.
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Raines made a conscious choice to explore this challenging content with a comical lens and a touch of earnestness at the video's conclusion.
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The fact is, those sayings the layperson rolls his eyes at are often the ones the coaches and players imbibe with utmost earnestness.
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In the process, Stone's earnestness opens the director to charges of being turned into a useful public-relations tool fort he Russian leader.
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But jerkin' was too lighthearted to sustain itself––its gaiety was, in part, a reflection of the general earnestness and optimism of youth.
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The Beltway media, in particular, have struggled to understand his earnestness, and some of that cynicism often bleeds into coverage of his finances.
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These excursions, captured with reckless fluidity by the cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt, aerate the movie and temporarily dispel the dust of Higher Power earnestness.
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He seems determined to take his usual mix of earnestness and square sense of humor into some approximation of the civil rights era.
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He delivers Bible-based jabs with the earnestness of an altar boy but has closely studied how religious rhetoric can shape civil society.
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Some answer with earnestness, and while the show does have moments of warmth and genuine connection, these are the ones she abandons fastest.
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I graduated from Reed College fifteen years ago, and while the language of intersectionality may be new, the earnestness of youth is not.
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His voice carries the emotion and earnestness it did all those years before, except it's packed with a larger sense of sole, and assuredness.
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It's John Bradley West's delivery that makes the line so memorable: he performs Samwell's earnestness perfectly and captures his both character's intellect and humbleness.
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His Boston accent, bizarre earnestness, and staccato mannerisms are same ones Andy Samberg ridiculed on Saturday Night Live to a humorless reception from Wahlberg.
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I was apprehensive at first—after all, the spinner carries the same level of embarrassing mass-market earnestness as Minions or Monster energy drink.
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But pretty much every time guitar music and rap music get together with any degree of earnestness, they create something ungodly, unpleasant, and corny.
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"When we got here last night there were candles and it was cozy," explained Leilah with that slightly funny earnestness possessed by all Germans.
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Nearly everything in the world is bad, and Peteiana — with its compelling combo of drama and earnestness — is exactly the (brief) distraction I need.
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I was reminded of both the stylized earnestness of Life is Strange and the old-school flat-shaded rotoscoping of Flashback and Another World.
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PewDiePie, the most-subscribed YouTube channel of all time, for example, has built a career on making fun of other YouTubers' attempts at earnestness.
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Possessed of a quiet dignity, a deep earnestness, and the support of his entire country, Mignini spent years persecuting Knox without any substantial proof.
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It's a breezy novel full of types (the Shark, the Dreamer, the Rebel, the Saint), and veers, not always successfully, from earnestness into satire.
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The earnestness of the children's efforts is echoed in the "Go-Sees" series, for which, likewise, young people are pictured posing awkwardly as adults.
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Mr Booker, who has shed some of his excessive earnestness, and is more appealing for it, also delivered the best gag of the evening.
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Here's who I suggest keeping an eye on: On a good day Britney Spears' Instagram is a whirlwind of touching earnestness, cringe, and confusion.
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It's a sensible choice, because the upbeat earnestness of the genre sits awkwardly with the taste for irony that is built into French discourse.
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Its classic multi-camera setup and laugh track give it a throwback vibe that's well-matched to the earnestness the show does everything with.
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However, his open personality and earnestness make this book so compelling that Rizvi may well become the Dawkins or Hitchens for the millennial generation.
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Cap's earnestness and discipline meant he'd never be sleekly persnickety, like Iron Man; nor empathetically emo, like Spider-Man; nor morally murky, like the Punisher.
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Like so many people on the internet, Adams frequently blends earnestness and satire with sarcasm, and it can be hard to tell when he's joking.
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"This is the best thing that ever happened to me," she said with the kind of earnestness one usually reserves for newborn children or weddings.
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For those less favorably disposed toward him — on the left as well as the right — it's easy to see how Comey's earnestness can seem sanctimonious.
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"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.
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"I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican — in that order," he is fond of saying with his trademark look-you-in-the-eye earnestness.
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But, in her earnestness I can see the effort she puts into all of this, hiding beneath the overt sexiness and cult of personality posturing.
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Mr. Cox and Elden Hanson, as Foggy, do earnestness well and put across the sometimes dopey dialogue better than you'd have a right to expect.
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Conti impressed his superiors with his work ethic, attention to detail and earnestness, and that led to a job in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization.
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Alas, they doubled down on the earnestness by recruiting Peter and Evynne Hollens, YouTube stalwarts with an a cappella background and a toothache-inducing sweetness.
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What registered most strongly about her was an understandable tremulousness, a complete earnestness and a commitment to only those assertions she felt full confidence about.
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Comey answered them with such painstaking earnestness and modesty that it was the oratorical equivalent of a student handing a teacher a gleamingly polished apple.
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Asked what it was like to be running a franchise with new expectations — Kings 3.0, you might say — Ranadive had his earnestness at the ready.
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"I watched the first season or so, but I found the speechifying, the high-minded earnestness — it was like fingernails on a blackboard," she said.
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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.
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But when I got her talking about a spiritual sunset experience atop a sand dune in the Sahara, she finally began to speak with excited earnestness.
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A steady earnestness has served Pichai well in the past, but managing all the controversies now swirling around his company may require a more pugnacious approach.
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Swedish-born Oskar Kinberg, head bartender at Oskar's, laughs at my earnestness when I ask how he worked his way up in the cocktail-making business.
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And yet there is something compelling about its ineptitude and the elaborate earnestness with which it attempts to create an erotic thriller for the digital age.
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After that, well, "The Orville" (named after the ship) is a fairly episodic litany of Trek-esque adventures, much of which is played with unexpected earnestness.
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What it lacks in vitriolic chefs and dramatic competitors common to American cooking competitions, "The Great British Baking Show" makes up for in earnestness and charm.
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This game—like Analgesic's previous work—cares about the human condition and the strange ways we relate to one another, to the point of radical earnestness.
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Though short lived, the pop-up nailed Nathan Fielder's particular brand of earnestness and his desire to push comedic boundaries by engaging with the real world.
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There was a certain meatiness missing in the voices of both Ms. Pérez and Mr. Finley, a certain sumptuousness, but they compensated with accuracy, intelligence, earnestness.
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While colleges pledge fairer admissions and more diverse student bodies, they don't patrol what's going on with nearly enough earnestness and energy to honor that promise.
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Over the course of fifteen albums and countless singles and compilation appearances, Francis dedicated his working life to exploring the possibilities of earnestness, sincerity, and sentimentality.
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In "Leaving the Atocha Station," Adam is in Madrid during a series of protests that he refuses to join; he is leery of so much earnestness.
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The team struggled even more with requests like "positive bisexual representation" and "to be transported," as skits floundered in the twilight zone between comedy and earnestness.
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Armed with outward earnestness and well-cloaked dreams of world domination, these digital geniuses promised their creations would result in the best of all possible worlds.
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"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.
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This careful tension between irony and earnestness was part of what made vaporwave fun—it flirted with the implicit transgressiveness of appreciating its aggressively commercial source material.
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It has the plenty of the dick jokes you'd expect, but it's also (mostly) packed with the earnestness, honesty, and weirdness you find in his best work.
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And while song titles like "everydayz 2moro" or "mood ring baby" suggests he cloaks his songs in ironic distance, heart and earnestness come through more than anything.
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Lee shaped Marvel Comics into the brand that we know so well today, lending it the self-referential earnestness that has helped make the MCU a juggernaut.
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Dion, with such earnestness that I don't think even registered on the fan's face, shooed away her security and said she was glad she stormed her stage.
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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.
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As it is, the show sinks into sluggish earnestness early, and you keep waiting for it to recapture the promising wit and daring with which it began.
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When comic irony is synonymous with hipness, any other sensibility, whether it's religious solemnity or emo-style earnestness, just seems stodgy and out of touch by comparison.
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But the '90s silliness of the series and its main protagonist, Hasselhoff's Mitch Buchannon, is undercut by an undeniable earnestness that complicates its adaptation to modern comedy.
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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.
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Though he might look a little silly, there's definitely something heartwarming about his earnestness here, resilient in the face of the absurdity of the average club experience.
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" Rogers and the Middle East researchers she works with from other institutions circulated the State Department's flier announcing P2P, and mocked what they consider the program's "naïve earnestness.
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In its weird earnestness, "Jay Z's Girl" is slightly reminiscent of Lil B's iconic and very rare track "California Boy" but without any of the legitimate heartfelt feeling.
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With his youthful earnestness, genial personality and devotion to conservative policy, Paul Ryan enjoyed a special stature within GOP even before he became House speaker late last year.
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She never let criticism of her earnestness get her down, and she put Matt Lauer in his place when he asked a sexist question about her wardrobe malfunction.
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And the weird, infantilizing rituals that surround #adulting have made taking care of yourself into something that can smack of dorkiness, or at least an unpleasant, saccharine earnestness.
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It's no stretch to reference the earnestness of childhood crusades à la Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials or the frank fatalism of Mordicai Gerstein's The Mountains of Tibet.
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Only a handful of people close to Mr. Trump understood the depth of his interest in the presidency, and the earnestness with which he eyed the 2016 campaign.
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" Famed boxing writer Paul Gallico described Heeney's boxing much differently in The Daily News: "a triumph of mediocrity, hooked to deep earnestness, rare courage and iron-shod durability.
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Even if there was other stuff at work for her there, I think that there was a real earnestness in terms of what she was trying to do.
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What can be lauded, however, is the complete earnestness in which he executed this undercooked (or is it overcooked?) vision: Aronofsky tried very, very, hard, and it shows.
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" 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.
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K., in the clearly underdeveloped mind of Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, who has been — try as he might with great earnestness — guiding his ship into dangerous waters.
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For all the semi-serious cases I made for this band's excesses while guarding the "Cruise"-playing iPhone, they're best when they're making dewy-eyed plays at earnestness.
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The show is in love with the fairy-tale earnestness of Cameron and Lauren, whose instant connection seems designed to melt the coldest and most cynical of hearts.
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Without his presence as a fulcrum for the city's ire, the response to his presidency has been reshaped, taking on a new dimension and renewed earnestness, activists say.
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Some of the best Twitter accounts, by contrast, deploy textual sloppiness on purpose, to affect a kind of endearing earnestness that might get lost in more polished prose.
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There are just two other solo roles: The strong bass-baritone Davóne Tines brings mellow sound and affecting earnestness to Freddie, a runaway slave fighting with Union forces.
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With grace and obvious earnestness, he reached out to the progressives who have supported Sanders, expressing in no uncertain terms how keenly he wants them on his team.
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He channels his remarkable technical ability toward hard-edge, political and genre-bending music that is nevertheless rooted in the blues, or at least its angst and earnestness.
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In a lot of ways, Vernon's earnestness was so sincere that it transcended any sort of judgment that might normally come with music that's so precious and delicate.
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In 1976, Barris debuted "The Gong Show," which featured contestants of varying degrees of earnestness being judged by a three-person panel comprised of B-list actors and comedians.
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The result is a film that can veer too sharply into earnestness, but very convincingly portrays a teenage girl's struggle to reconcile the tornado of hormones roiling within her.
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" Sincerity is Scary" taps into our almost self-sabotaging distaste for earnestness on the internet; our desire to gloss over issues with sarcasm, our deep-seated aversion to vulnerability.
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Vikander doesn't do much with a character whose chief attribute is earnestness, but Tomb Raider improves once it gets to the island and lets the derring-do take over.
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And I hope, with all the earnestness of a Tig blog post, that she is as happy — if not far, far happier — than she was when she turned 33.
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The spareness and earnestness of startup minimalism truly found its match in the ubiquitous decor style that the writer Kyle Chayka coined "AirSpace," a reference to travel startup Airbnb.
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They spoke with VICE about the renewed relevance of truly diverse onscreen representation, the earnestness at the heart of their project, and why you can never be woke enough.
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People without sufficient respect for their obvious superiors were, they tried to warn us, storming the media, and they would soon run earnestness and respect out of the industry.
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" After the first debate, Manley said there were questions about "if he's the right person to take on Donald Trump, given his aw-shucks mannerism sometimes and his earnestness.
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Sure, the randomness of the magazine's content and the vague, plaintive earnestness of some lyrics are more unfashionably adolescent — more Tumblr — than you'd want from a 28-year-old.
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Some voters may prefer O'Rourke's middle-ground tendencies and Buttigieg's cerebral earnestness and red-state bona fides; others may think Warren or Sanders are better representative of the left.
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I think if players know that you're trustworthy in some sense and you do what you say, they know there's an earnestness about you trying to help them improve.
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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.
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Buttigieg, he added, is a promising candidate who came into a black-owned restaurant and demonstrated a level of earnestness, humility and tenacity as he took on tough questions.
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But von Sydow brings a fascinating earnestness to the role of a stiff reverend who volunteers for this important religious endeavor, but needs to find someone to marry first.
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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.
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Earnestness without sentimentalism is what's called for in these electrifying and precarious times, I guess, which makes it a bit tough to talk about something so unserious as this.
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This thing has been bugging you for years, and the reason you think you can't write it is because it's too hard, it's going to take too much emotional earnestness.
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It's hard to imagine the screaming fans of 90s boy bands or girl groups relating with quite as much bleeding-heart earnestness to "I Want It That Way", or "Wannabe".
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Someone yuppie couple out there has definitely made "Fake Plastic Trees" their own "Crash Into Me," and I'd prefer not to think about the babies spawned from such aggressive earnestness.
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It's so obvious in its earnestness, the musicians so perfect in their brand of feminist existentialism, that playing it is not just on the nose — it's on the entire face.
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Its cast of characters is not only huge, but varied in personality, which means every human quirk imaginable (SpongeBob's disarming earnestness, Squidward's angsty cynicism) has its moment in the sun.
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The tangle of tradition and change, earnestness and pop machinations are on view, along with the makings of a legacy that roots matter and a song can change the world.
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The juxtaposition of a world coated in a sincere earnestness that also has a sarcastic underbelly feels extremely 2018, and feels right at home in the irony-ruled internet age.
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The Honduran government has an opportunity to improve their image by demonstrating their earnestness and agree to an independent international investigation supported by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
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In the time of Trump, Walker could have turned his plodding earnestness into a virtue by joining the Republican governors of Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio and simply not shown up.
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The play on words (I love dogs, get it?) captures the director's compound of irony and earnestness, the way he takes puerile things seriously, in a mode of rigorous deadpan.
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Rather than the substance, it's the spirit that matters here — a mix of earnestness, fantasy, heart and justice that can resound as great even if the production isn't very good.
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Less visually and choreographically impressive than Zhang Yimou's spectacular show in Beijing in 2008, and less star-studded than London in 2012, the production Friday night had a winning earnestness.
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For many months now, she has been sending signals that a second Clinton administration would differ from President Obama's in the earnestness and aggressiveness of its bid for bipartisan cooperation.
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She is filled with pity when he describes a controlling, violent father, and she is struck by his earnestness: he's prone to tears, and teaches swimming to developmentally disabled children.
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"We're not going to increase trust in the ability of this difficult coalition to govern through fights and publicity stunts, but rather through earnestness and energy," he told Die Welt.
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"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.
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Scene transitions are marked by illustrated comic book panels with punny captions, and there's always a character with a dry remark at the ready to offset an onslaught of earnestness.
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He has the insatiable hunger of a hustler and the wounded pride of a never-was, but Murphy seems to realize that the character's real secret weapon is his earnestness.
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I didn't see it then, but I understand now that many social movements start on the fringe frontier, where earnestness ultimately wins out over the skepticism of people like me.
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Introducing the word "Enron" was the key, because it forced the news media to debate with great earnestness a question that, as of the day before, had never been asked.
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Their differences, while subtle, emerge without undue taxation and with a deeply characteristic Hafifian earnestness that seems to say: Just do it and mean it; it will be new enough.
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A good art dealer finds a way to combine earnestness with polished savvy, and the success of the German-born gallerist David Zwirner demonstrates the potency of such a mixture.
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Still, Japandroids songs remain recognizable in their earnestness, simplicity and pure adrenaline; career growth aside, the duo maintains a palpable humility that reads more as rock nerd than rock star.
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I was struck by Colescott's earnestness in these works; they presented a more subdued inquiry in relation to the direct, audacious style found in the bulk of his later paintings.
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On Sunday Oh's acceptance speech was one of the most spirited of the night, in keeping with her approach to her hosting duties: an endearing combination of earnestness and jubilation.
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There has been so much apocalyptic television over the years that once in a while the genre needs a blast of fresh air to disperse some of the gloom and earnestness.
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But Carter (Netflix's Godless) is so darn winning that we can't help but fall for Sadie's moony earnestness, especially as Carter lets us understand the character's quiet, desperate need for purpose.
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It's an earnestness that's a little hard to take given the current political climate, but as I reminded myself several times throughout the scene, Claire doesn't know about Donald Trump yet.
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As Dr. Donna Skirth, an associate of Drake's who suddenly grows a conscience, Jenny Slate appears to also embrace the inevitable, delivering her lines with an earnestness that veers on parody.
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The first episode — really, the first 15 minutes of the first episode — is the perfect acid test for whether this kind of wide-eyed but arch faux-earnestness is your thing.
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But why click on that video when you could instead hear the same song played in apparent earnestness by a man holding a lamb and bleating in tune with the music?
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When the mainstream public grew out of Myspace emo, it was patently with a cringe: it was a musical movement so fundamentally teenage in its look and earnestness and self-obsession.
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Deborah is battling a cadre of mental health issues including paranoia, possible schizophrenia, and trauma from abuse, yet beneath this fervid disquiet, Winfrey imbues her with fragile earnestness and dogged determination.
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He's running for the Democratic Party's 20063 Presidential nomination, so these are not unexpected themes, and yet O'Rourke, who is tall and spare and deep-voiced, delivers them with unusual earnestness.
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How Pete Buttigieg found God The Democratic presidential candidate delivers Bible-based jabs with the earnestness of an altar boy and has closely studied how religious rhetoric can shape civil society.
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With a winning combination of style, silliness, and earnestness that's tempered with sarcasm, Chung and France are a refreshing answer to the fashion personalities we've grown accustomed to seeing on television.
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But "Cats" can&apost quite figure out what it wants to do — it oscillates between moments of pure, farcical camp and overblown earnestness too many times to be called self aware.
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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.
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Such are the ironies in which Mills, at his most winning, likes to deal; rather than take sarcastic shots at earnestness, he stays with it and waits for the comic overreach.
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With its visual dynamism co-curated by Khalil Joseph and lyrical earnestness courtesy of Warsan Shire, it transcended what a visual album and live cinematic moment could be for a generation.
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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.
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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.
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In a recent interview with the Guardian, writer Decca Aitkenhead asked RuPaul about "the contradiction between his playfully elastic sensibility and the militant earnestness of the transgender movement" (which, already, yikes).
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We had an owner who was committed, we had an owner who got a lot of attention because of his earnestness and because of kind of the idealism that he espoused.
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This sixth installment in the DC Universe comes closest to nailing that particular brand of self-aware humor and save-the-world earnestness that has been working so well over at Marvel.
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As Funny or Die has seen, not just at this convention, but with videos like Between Two Ferns, jokes can help a serious message go viral in a way earnestness often cannot.
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A-list celebrities began embracing the word feminism—a significant shift after decades when feminists were little more than pop-culture punch lines, derided for their humorlessness, earnestness, and ideological single-mindedness.
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The book is far too long, more chronicle than biographical work of art, and Evans writes with plodding earnestness, aggravated by the fact that he is in such awe of his subject.
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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.
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"The show has a perky earnestness, buoyant enough to float over the genuine agonies of cancer while still acknowledging some of the emotional fallout," Margaret Lyons wrote in The New York Times.
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Fond of non sequiturs and hyper-earnestness, the Tick was the kind of superhero who most made sense in a world that was utterly nonsensical, which is what superhero worlds inevitably become.
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If the guy's earnestness is what upsets you, neither "Drug Dealer" nor its accompanying video—replete with the first sunny steps to recovery at the end—are going to turn you around.
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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.
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And it found one of the show's most loathsome villains in Phi Phi O'Hara, who displayed a deadly combination of over-earnestness about the show and a blazing lack of self-awareness.
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"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.
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Addison Reed, the Mets' closer who has been traded twice in his career and can see the writing on the wall by now, has handled the situation with both levity and earnestness.
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The tenor Miles Mykkanen conveyed the mix of insecurity and earnestness in Tichon, Katya's husband, who lives in fear of his caustic and possessive mother, Kabanicha, the widow of a prosperous merchant.
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He says too much, and says it with too much unearned earnestness, and has the nerve to show hurt feelings when Frankie is slow, or outright unwilling, to say too much back.
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In more earnestness, I've never been able to shake the scene in Harry Crews's "A Childhood" when he falls into that vat of scalding water as a child, and the awful repercussions.
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The Brooklyn-based Finch's work can often edge into twee (see: sunset-colored ice cream), yet does have a core earnestness for engaging his audience with surprising moments of connection with nature.
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Both Jim and George were delightful interviewees, alternating between earnestness about the elusiveness of a perfect sound and sardonic "what are ya gonna do" about how any of it might be perceived.
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"I hear the drums echoing tonight," David Paich croons over the keyboard, perking my ears to the earnestness of his voice filling the car, and in that moment, possibly the whole world.
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Christie was nominated for an Academy Award for her raw emotional earnestness, and Nolte matches her scene-for-scene with an intensity that likely informed his own nomination the following year for Affliction.
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The film, for all its earnestness, suffers from the same problem that has plagued other depictions of the playwright: there is much mythology to strip away, yet few hard facts to work with.
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There's the pairing of dishonesty with earnestness, the disarming candor mixed with secrecy, and an irresistible traction with co-star Stephen Graham (another HBO alum, familiar to audiences as Boardwalk Empire's Al Capone).
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But since Wonder Woman is a 2017 film, Diana's wide-eyed earnestness needs a counterpoint more in line with modern superhero storytelling, which the film finds in the suave American spy Steve Trevor.
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Baroque arrogance, of the kind we have been witnessing recently, is easier to take than an egotism attached to earnestness, because we can always imagine that the baroque variety is just an act.
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In the mid-nineteen-seventies, a cabal of scruffy-looking men, outfitted in denim and plaid, were writing world-weary songs that blended the nihilism of rock with the earnestness of country music.
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He answers almost clumsily in his earnestness when pressed on certain controversial aspects of Cannibal Corpse's career (for example, how he feels about singing songs like "Stripped, Raped, and Strangled" onstage every night).
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If the scene has the patina of an after-school special (earnestness, a touch of melodrama), Iweala deploys the present tense and an unfussy syntax to hook the reader, and it works well.
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The trailer reveals that in season two, Kimmy gets a job at a year-round Christmas store, which makes all kinds of sense and will allow Kemper to lean into Kimmy's manic earnestness.
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Mr. Romney had long been such a stylistic throwback — a man whose idea of profanity was "H-E-double-hockey-sticks," edging into a theater of insults — that his earnestness qualified as refreshing.
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When he spoke about his most stirring, memorable plays, his words tumbled out fast, and with an earnestness that brought to mind a young preacher — no surprise given Wilson's oft-professed evangelical Christianity.
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When he meets the public on inflamed topics like housing or homeless shelters, he brings a mix of earnestness and command of detail that can leave even knee-jerk critics with calm knees.
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Whether or not I am able to confirm a wry irony in his smile, or an element of performance in his earnestness, standing in an elevator with Shia LaBeouf was worthy of my time.
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Jimmy Kimmel hosted for a second year in succession, with his usual balance of political earnestness and deadpan irreverence, and in general the event proceeded as swiftly and smoothly as a factory production line.
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King of earnestness Lin-Manuel Miranda, who did a very popular rap musical about the presidents, posted a message about how "happy" he was to wait in line in the pouring rain and vote.
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There was a real sense of earnestness, which made me go home and think, 'Let me really rethink my answer and make sure I am giving an answer that is truthful and also respectful.
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That plays out in a specific way in her music: Unlike the arch self-examination or '80s earnestness of most current pop, nobody ever falls out of love in a Lana Del Rey song.
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He's ready for his bust to be sculpted and put into the hallowed halls of Degrassi to sit in earnestness that you, too, can achieve zen with the correctly selected oversized sweater/glasses combo.
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For all the earnestness of the flocks of people who show up in costume to express themselves, such a place of fan worship also felt like a cathedral being used for an advertising show.
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Even songs by artists supposedly designed to be sexed to—Ginuwine, Rihanna, The Weeknd—become cringe-worthy events filled with a level earnestness that may or may not end in tears or a murder.
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But contrary to his usual style, the film is neither an investigation nor a polemic — it's a plea for the election of Hillary Clinton, delivered with a combination of rousing earnestness and shaky optimism.
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And at the very least (or perhaps most importantly) the collective earnestness from both the educators and attendees seemed to nurture something increasingly rare in the US: A genuine sense of hope and agency.
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Decadence was founded on an impertinent reversal of the values of the time: in place of hard work and moral earnestness, writers like Wilde and Joris-Karl Huysmans elevated imaginative indolence and provocative paradox.
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Glover infuses every single avenue he pursues here with a droll yet mildly alarmed earnestness, the sound of an erudite mind short-circuiting after being ensnared by its own cultivated web of pop culture.
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Josh Groban plays Tony Caruso Jr., the rules-obsessed New York police lieutenant at the center of the new show, and his big-eyed earnestness probably seemed like a good match for the part.
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A quintessential hero's journey set in a dreamy, folkloric Japan, Kubo is a story about stories, told with a sophistication that never gets in the way of its straightforward earnestness or its stunning visuals.
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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?
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" And yet at one point in the episode, in a rare moment of earnestness for Roman, he asks his siblings, "Is there a thing where we, like, talk to each other about stuff … normally?
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The level of earnestness that many TikTok videos convey often crosses the line into cringeworthiness, particularly when it comes to very young teenagers exploring subcultures like furry fandom, infantilism, or certain kinds of cosplay.
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And I think that he just saw ... We all bristle a little bit with too much earnestness, and I think that's why there's a bit of embarrassment about the idea of consuming advice today.
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At last year's Academy Awards, Gaga near-perfectly performed a medley from "The Sound of Music," and her earnestness was touching even as you had no idea why this was happening — to us, to her.
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The Edge of Seventeen is a teen movie made for the millennial crowd, who've mostly aged out of their teenage years by now but tend to cross earnestness and irony, never taking anything too seriously.
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But consumer culture aside, I think it's important to acknowledge that while earnestness may be endangered, it certainly isn't dead, which is why VICE asked millennials to tell us what they love most about millennials.
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" Michael Kimmel, a sociologist who has written extensively about modern men, told me that while he couldn't know the ratio of earnestness to image burnishing in Ryan's proclamation, "it's interesting that it has currency now.
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Peter's loyalty to his friends — a sweet, spirited crew embodying the tolerance, skepticism and earnestness that characterize their generation, as well as some of its less appealing aspects — is sometimes at odds with his vocation.
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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.
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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.
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The individual numbers nearly all feature literal-minded scenery, such as a bank of candles and a wrought-iron gate for the "Phantom" sequence, and they are performed with the high earnestness of audition pieces.
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Decades ago, at the dawn of Nafta, it was easy to ridicule the earnestness of "worthwhile" Canadian ideals like free trade, a rules-based international order and the strategic importance of United States-Canada relations.
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It's much better than the sort of anguished earnestness that you're like, "Well, I'm sad, and I'm earnest," and then you don't get either the true real indignance or the satire and the hilarity of it.
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And not only did Hanks embody Mr. Rogers, but he lent a new earnestness and edge to the public figure that hadn't really been explored before — in a performance that was definitely worthy of an Oscar.
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The tension between these different strains in Ono's art, along with an alternating current of playfulness and earnestness that courses through many parts of her multifaceted oeuvre, combine to deliver its peculiar, compelling, inviting-disquieting edge.
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Re-watching the film for its tenth anniversary; however, I found that everything that irked me back then – doe-eyed sentimentality, history told through a montage, strings of almost cringe-inducing earnestness — is actually a delight.
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They may not have been talking about humor, but the implication that a new wave of earnestness was sure to make the posture of irony obsolete suggested that they prized such detached outlook above all else.
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KS: I wouldn't put it past ... Because I think they're mistaking his interest in things that are very Mark Zuckerbergian, which he does every year, unusual things, with his very earnestness, he's a very earnest person.
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Over the first 45 minutes of the movie, the film looks at Bernie's other relationships, from his local-boy closeness with the area fisherman to his awkwardness around other Guardsmen, who resent his rule-abiding earnestness.
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The risks inherent in making fiction out of the encounter between privileged Europeans and powerless dark-skinned non-Europeans are immense: earnestness without rigor, the mere confirmation of the right kind of political "concern," sentimental didacticism.
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And while the saving-history story lines give rise to earnestness and sentimentality, there's a nice vein of humor, mostly channeled through Rufus (Malcolm Barrett), the tech guy, who's a pessimist and an initially reluctant warrior.
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The story is set during the golden age of daytime talk: You will perhaps inevitably think of Mattie as Jerry Springer crossed with Phil Donahue's furrowed-brow earnestness, or Montel Williams with Maury Povich's oily condescension.
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This combination of earnestness and jovial detachment is what characterizes the mature Goethe, and what makes him unique; no other writer gives us the same sense that he has both seen life and seen through it.
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Pen15, which premieres Friday on Hulu in its entirety, is the rare show that captures that stage of life, balancing gross-out humor with the earnestness and curiosity of two girls in the chrysalis stage of womanhood.
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The warmth and earnestness of Moyes' storytelling will leave you entranced to the very end, and even though you'll be sad to leave Louisa's story behind, you'll finish the book feeling completely at peace with her ending.
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"I think we will never find common ground if you are too afraid to even speak your mind, you're too afraid to let the world know that you're a racist," he said, an earnestness in his tone.
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The former oozes wide-eyed nice girl cotton-candy clouds of earnestness, so much so that it comes as a shock when we learn she's supposed to be from Boston, and not some idyllic farm in Minnesota.
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PARELES Emeli Sandé's latest urgent affirmation — "You deserve peace of mind, you deserve all the laughter/You are one of a kind, you deserve happy ever after" — doesn't let the earnestness of her voice rule the music.
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Snyder was still mulling his decision when he walked the campus one cold morning, and was smitten by the friendliness of the people, their earnestness and work ethic, and he accepted the job for the 13 season.
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But his statements that he is using the game to develop "old-school human skills," like "conversations and laughing with friends" — made in apparent earnestness during a testimonial aside — seem like Slamtown sayings more than anything else.
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It didn't help when Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler laughed at Cohen's breakfast choice -- it calls into question not only the sincerity of the Barr hearing but also the earnestness of the numerous investigations House Democrats are pursuing.
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Lose yourself in the moment: lean back, mentally check out, and enjoy the bizarre beauty of a New Zealand court—judge, lawyers, witnesses—having to listen to "Lose Yourself" by Eminem in full, in silence, with absolute earnestness.
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The tonal shifts these highjinks entail—from earnestness to satire and back again—sometimes jar in a film that, in its depictions of war in Cambodia, Afghanistan and Iraq, also insists on a life-and-death moral seriousness.
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It's not something that has limiters on it, right... It's that we should approach everything with respect, with a sense of, you know, earnestness and a true sort of understanding of the gravity and the weight of it.
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It seemed like an easy target: the earnestness of its intentions, the $1150 glamping packages, my expectation that it would be full of Coachella-style trust fund bohemians who got their social justice philosophies off a t-shirt.
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"Different On Levels the Lord Allows" sounds like an abstinence slogan, and most of his tracks are hold-your-head affirmations and trite struggle bars delivered in a Public Speaking Course flow that only heightens their dorky earnestness.
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Neeson, however, brings such earnestness to these roles that he somehow sells them -- initially as a family man reluctantly thrust into a perilous situation, and then as a can-do warrior battling the shadowy forces arrayed against him.
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Mixed with the heightening process commonly known as camp and a moral earnestness disguised as flippancy, this sensibility would later show up in the work of John Waters, Bette Midler, Charles Busch, Taylor Mac and even Tony Kushner.
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Like Mindy Kaling and other funny women, Schumer is doing it with laughs and stumbles, but also with an earnestness that affirms something real is at stake: love, hearts and maybe, possibly, a gender-fluid happily ever after.
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" Barry praises D.W. Griffith's film with an earnestness not seen in her evaluation of The Jazz Singer: "It earned for the cinema as a whole a status hitherto denied it, compelled the acceptance of the film as art.
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And unlike some of the more seasoned and cynical election watchers, Morris has a sort of fresh eagerness about him — an earnestness in his analysis that makes the Nate Cohns of the world roll their eyes a little.
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"There has been so much apocalyptic television over the years that once in a while the genre needs a blast of fresh air to disperse some of the gloom and earnestness," Neil Genzlinger wrote in The New York Times.
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Even when the sentences are meant to stir up feelings, such as when we hear an official say in staged earnestness, "Our hearts are with you," we might as well be listening to flies shitting on the President's forehead.
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That lawyer is Kathleen Zellner, a being who's equal parts of deadpan and steely earnestness and seems like she was created in a lab specifically for Cecily Strong to play her in a future episode of Saturday Night Live.
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"President Trump: if you wish to reach agreements with Mexico, we stand ready, as we have proved until now, always willing to engage in a dialogue, acting in earnestness, in good faith and in a constructive spirit," he said.
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Raphaelle Standell-Preston sings with openhearted earnestness about watching an eclipse as she assesses her life — "myself at the age of 27, questioning that the universe doesn't trust in me" — and ends up celebrating a loving friendship; benevolence reigns.
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But while a dose of gritty humanity is a welcome contrast to the earnestness of Ms. Kondo or the mindfulness of the stress expert Jon Kabat-Zinn, a 732-unit-tall mountain of it suggests a lack of imagination.
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Milo's awkward earnestness felt revolutionary and real, probably because I never understood how to be attracted to the intimidating Disney heroes of my childhood — the charming, graceful ones whose faces and bodies did most of the work for them.
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" We go back to Fort Meade and we huddle up, and in great earnestness we huddled up and went down to the next meeting and said, "We don't want you selling anything to these" — very small list — "of countries.
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That its visual wizardry is nearly invisible—therefore reiterating that visual effects is a respectable craft, not some weird flex to prove you can make lions dance and Iron Man fly—is the kind of earnestness the Academy loves to reward.
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If part of the appeal of games for me is the fantasy world into which they let me escape, equally as important to that fictional reality as entwining tendrils of magic or rays of scintillating sunlight is the impression of earnestness.
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There's an earnestness to this sentiment that's both admirably pure and grossly myopic, as if Burners were the only ones ever to have built a city, experimented with alternative models of living, or spent time in the Black Rock Desert.
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He's a relic of America's golden age, and his earnestness and selflessness feel like relics as well: too good and sweet to be of our contemporary time and place, and directly at odds with the modern sensibilities of Tony Stark.
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The verbal part of his show was a series of feints and parries, delivered with a deadpan earnestness subtly tinged with sarcasm that kept the audience off guard until a nonsensical tangent revealed it was all a joke — or was it?
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Robinson was an unlikely leading man whose average-joe appearance and earnestness make him a comparable presence to Mr. Stuhlbarg, but here Robinson is at his most vulnerable after he betrays his peers and is plagued by regret in later years.
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By contrast, Schiff's earnestness and reason is the corresponding cri de coeur for a meaningful proportion of Democratic voters, as well as—Democratic leaders hope—an affect that will reassure those voters who have remained on the fence about impeachment.
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The homoeroticism of the scene has been cheaply joked about countless times, but usually the focus of that commentary excludes the music, which, like the scene where a commanding officer screams that he "wants some butts," betrays a certain 80s earnestness.
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In the past few years, Prince Harry has slowly opened up about his role in the Royal Family and the long grieving process after his mother's death 20 years ago, with an earnestness that has gained him a lot a of praise.
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And yet Jon is not only lauded by people like Davos Seaworth for this otherwise suicidal trait, but the show portrays it as a positive thing, as if somehow, Jon's earnestness will succeed where Ned Stark's similar honor got his head chopped off.
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Yes, this is a show that wants to present the full spectrum of The Way Things Are Now, but it's completely upfront about that, and its earnestness — tinged, of course, with Cody's occasionally sardonic tone — proves to be one of its greatest strengths.
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The tone of this MacFarlane dramedy, which is clearly a labor of love, is not what he's known for: Yes, The Orville can be crass — there are dick jokes and barf — but there's an earnestness about it that I was truly confused by.
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It is both a surprise and a relief to encounter fiction that explores counterfactual worlds like these with something of the ardor and earnestness of much young-adult fiction, asking anew philosophical questions that have been posed repeatedly through millennia to no avail.
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But the unabashed earnestness of it all — the conviction with which garish costumes are worn, nerdy jokes are delivered, and lo-fi recreations of famous comic panels are staged — it's got a cheesy heart you can't buy with any amount of money.
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The problem with taking on those sorts of tricky political or social topics, however, is that it's all too easy for a show to avoid specificity and complexity — how messy this stuff can be — in favor of a kind of kumbaya earnestness.
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There are few more effective ways to break the spell of chemical earnestness than to enlist a gaggle of wide-eyed fiends, all convinced of their poise and righteousness, to pick the next tune, leaving what seem like vast oceans of silence between each track.
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In case you didn't catch on from the intense manner with which he points and taps his desert boot on the amplifiers to some heckin good born-again Christian rock, his is a cult built on earnestness—and the fully clothed crowd are loving it.
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Mija resists this arrangement but wouldn't be able to put up much resistance without help from the Animal Liberation Front, a group of vigilantes led by Jay (Paul Dano), whose painful earnestness makes it hard to determine what, exactly, we're meant to think of them.
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As we exited the theatre early, scarcely an hour into a two-hour epic, I was relieved to find my mind fixated less on techno-spiritual anxieties or thoughts of the uncanny than on the exuberance and earnestness of the room we were leaving.
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I hear bits that remind me of ancient folk music, 70s singer-songwriter's earnestness, Tangerine Dream's stargazing ambience, prog's backbending rhythmic interplay, the impossible instrumentation of 90s electronic music that people called IDM, R&B's slippery rhythms, as well as future-facing genres that remain.
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"It's crazy that there's this disconnect from a sense of self, and the things that I was taking in as my lifeblood," Dane said on a sleepy LA afternoon, citing Neil Young's self-titled debut as helping him ditch that comfortable earnestness for good.
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At the peak of Second Life's popularity, Jason Farrell, a reporter from Sky News, was tipped off to a playground hidden behind the wall of a virtual shopping center; it was called "Wonderland," either with deep irony or cutting earnestness, depending on whom you asked.
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The death of Princess Diana lingers over the conversation; when Harry hopes for a society that will one day allow us all to "offload all of your week's grief," it's with an earnestness that reminds us social change often begins with the deeply personal.
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I have seen the alternative to Ted Cruz — Lord knows we need an alternative to Ted Cruz — and he's a peppy, rangy, toothy progressive with ratios of folksiness to urbanity and irreverence to earnestness that might well have been cooked up in some political laboratory.
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Early on, when "Late Night With David Letterman" defined his snark as the ideally frivolous antidote to the Reagan era's cant, he passed himself off as, and possibly even was, a glib Hoosier wiseacre with no use for earnestness except as fodder for parody.
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Each has had to navigate the intricacies of Mr. Lucas's sprawling fiction while handling the deep imprint created by Darth Vader's heavy-breathing menace, R2-D2's amusing beeps, Mr. Ford's insouciance, Mr. Hamill's earnestness, and Ms. Fisher's smarts and latter-day screwball charm.
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The hardback book — its endpapers decorated with tiny tents and an attached green ribbon playfully suggesting you might want to bookmark a site for your own camping excursion — has the earnestness of an academic text, which Hogue employs to give some humor to his endeavor.
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Apatow and company would run the theme of arrested adolescence into the ground in the years to come, but the earnestness underpinning Carell's relationship to his buddies (Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen and Romany Malco) and his more experienced girlfriend (Catherine Keener) counteracts the juvenilia.
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Trump doubles down on Mexico 'border tax' threat He also recalled the earnestness and popularity of the wall at his campaign rallies, where he regularly did a call and response with his supporters over the promise to have the US' southern neighbor pay for a border wall.
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Baby-faced Bachelorette dude Connor Saeli, who made quite the towering impression on our girl Hannah earlier this year on After The Final Rose, has continued his aww-shucks earnestness streak through the first two episodes of the season, so we're pretty sure he's there for love.
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Emma: When I heard Ken Bruce exclaim, "yes!" in time with the final, aggressive toot of "Uptown Funk"—with more earnestness than all the texts I sent this morning denouncing the new Wetherspoons avocado bagel—I did not think my life as I knew it would change.
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Some may initially find 306 Hollywood's earnestness and tweeness off-putting, but the movie develops more depth with each segment, as the Bogarins reassemble old tapes and piles of junk into the shape of someone who's no longer there, and they mournfully try to reanimate her soul.
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She coordinates all aspects of her shows, from booking bands to spreading the word, and the result is often sweaty, jam-packed, and bathed in the kind of no-holds-barred earnestness reserved for those not yet legally considered by the government to be full human beings.
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His light tenor is not large, but it's nimble and it suits the squeaky-clean nature of the good-hearted Frederic nicely, as does his throbbing earnestness as he switches his allegiance from his pirate crew to the bumbling bobbies trying to capture them, and back again.
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Despite the film's syrupy sweetness, it takes some risks (in a musical interlude, the immigration official who has shredded Aja's passport sings a tasteless number about deporting him to Spain), and its relentless earnestness is tough to resist, even as the film sugarcoats intimations of real danger.
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Working loosely from the true story of two sailors, played here by Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin, whose yacht gets stranded in the Pacific after a hurricane, the director Baltasar Kormákur ("Everest") handles the love story with refreshing earnestness and the catastrophe with gripping stylistic brio.
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Yet what is unmistakable — it's etched in Pitt's wounded, crumpled humanity and in Gray's plaintive earnestness — is that "Ad Astra" is unambiguously a film of its moment, one about a man's struggle for personal meaning and a place in the world in a time of fallen fathers.
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"The whole thing became such a blur," the guitarist and singer Trey Anastasio said on Monday, recovering from the final show on Sunday night, which like the rest of the run blended rigorous compositions and classic rock with absurdism, improvisation and occasional flashes of total earnestness.
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When Imir stops by Neil's house and offers to buy a boat he has inherited, Neil, touched by his gentle earnestness, invites him over for supper, only to learn that Imir knows Neil's work history — and lost his wife and daughter in one of Neil's aerial assaults.
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While perhaps there was a time in which it was trendy for groups to have a more produced, cookie-cutter image — and certainly there are some tired Asian tropes baked in there — that generalization seems unfair when faced with the passion and earnestness of modern groups like ATEEZ.
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The authorities have enlisted young people to assist in translations - all of whom have varying levels of English skill but the same high level of earnestness and enthusiasm that you see across a country that wants to show how far China's come and how far it can go.
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When Roe earnestly reveals a life-changing secret from his past, he does it with the bland, sleazy earnestness of a dude telling his current fling that he hasn't actually gotten around to breaking up with his last girlfriend yet, but he was just about to text her, really.
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Their imaginations, their earnestness, their baring of soul and sectional, their desire to be seen, it all inspires me and also overwhelms me, so that sometimes I have to set aside my own moment of fantasy; I have to sit down and take in the collective power of theirs.
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Many said his past successes have stemmed from his ability to network and connect with founders and entrepreneurs — letting them down easy when he has less than optimal news about a company&aposs valuation, while also appealing to their human side with an earnestness rare for Wall Street.
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Born in Brooklyn and reared in the Red Hook section, where many of his relatives were longshoremen and where he developed the working-class diction that became part of his appeal, Mr. Santos often played rough-hewed characters with an aura of toughness mellowed by earnestness or beleaguerment.
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His fallibility and earnestness, the characteristics that might make him seem unexceptional, are in fact liberating for home cooks and anyone else looking for a new form of Internet escapism, who need to feel empowered to fail, and to make food (or art) for ourselves, not to impress others.
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Though at times that may seem impossible — storm clouds almost literally gather on Jeff's brow when the constant arguments that the world is inherently ugly start to seep through his armor — it's that earnestness that ultimately saves the series from completely breaking apart, and will hopefully save Jeff, too.
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The Fosters has a school shooting episode and a trans rights arc and an abusive boyfriend arc and a bipolar arc, and it treats every last one of them with complete earnestness and a sincere desire to teach its teen viewers the correct way of responding to such issues.
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The oldest poems are recognizably his, but they haven't all earned their earnestness yet: And sometime in those meaningful hours, we who have never found a use for the thingexcept to mismanage its name,as is our bitter nature, did not hearthe hedge apple at last let go. Thud.
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If you didn't know he was talking to her, with feverish earnestness, about his newly discovered love for the poetry of García Lorca, you could have easily imagined that he was telling her about his recent breakthrough with spiders in wigs, as she paid polite, slightly distracted attention.
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We have set ourselves up as guardians of Truth, a hard job in any circumstance, made additionally difficult by our inevitable errors in judgment and reporting, by an earnestness often mistaken for arrogance, and by our conviction that we are owed answers to whatever questions we wish to ask.
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Sibling squabbles, kids who are slightly irritating but often sage, weary kisses and an ultimate all-for-one vibe … if you've been missing the Salingers, or if you just want some flannel and earnestness, now is your moment: The show is leaving Netflix at the end of March.
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The earnestness of Dear Basketball is unmistakable, but so, too, is the fact that it's the story Bryant wants to tell—that he gave himself utterly to a game he loved, gave and gave until he wrecked himself in the pursuit, then left grateful and still very much in love.
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He plays Hal with an understated earnestness that leaves him looking even younger and more vulnerable than usual in the first act of the movie, but there's a tenacious ferocity lurking under his skin that only becomes fully visible as the battle starts and he flings himself into the mud.
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What follows is a snapshot of Cross's thoughts on several of the photos in Ghost Notes, his career, rap in the 90s, the state of photography in in the Instagram era, and the late Ganjah K. You can hear the earnestness and sincerity he's brought to his work in every word.
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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." Its sense of hope borders on the axiomatic — who doesn't believe that children are the future?
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Building off the earnestness of the short-lived My So-Called Life and Party of Five, the success of Dawson's Creek led to One Tree Hill, Gilmore Girls, and other late 90s/early-mid 00s dramas revolving around extremely loquacious and eloquent teenagers facing real world (and often first-world) problems.
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Not everyone's forgotten him, though, and Francis is an artist who deserves to be remembered fondly and listened to still, for very few acts out there are able to plumb the depths of total and unerring sincerity and romanticism without falling into the death-trap that is over-done earnestness.
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"Dallas" was more "Peyton Place" than "Holiday," and the clothes weren't as fine, but it did have an ingeniously original, amoral central character in J. R. Ewing (a shrewd performance by Larry Hagman) and a delicious mix of earnestness (Bobby and Pam Ewing) and bitchiness (Sue Ellen Ewing and Lucy Ewing).
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And as you'll see in this performance from the 2012 Tonys, from the stalwart, aw-shucks earnestness on Andrew Rannells's face as he outlines his beliefs to the blank amazement on Brian Tyree Henry's face as Rannells bursts into his camp to the deadpan simplicity of the musical's joke structure — everything just works.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads After the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones, "The Bells," left the show's fans divided, the Reddit forum r/freefolk reacted with a turn best understood by the extremely online: They briefly rebranded, in equal parts sarcasm and earnestness, to become a Lord of the Rings subreddit.
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With that all said, Bolt did have what seemed like a very serious interview with ESPN about the prospect of making the team, in which he described positions, an earnestness about his chances of making the team, and how he'd deal with his favorite team, Manchester United, if he's offered a deal.
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EditorsNote: write-thru with quotes and details HOUSTON — Red Sox center fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. spoke with an earnestness that belied his influence on the American League Championship Series, a sincerity that did not fully reflect the potency of his bat or the damage he wrought in helping dethrone the defending champions.
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The exhibit is now on permanent display in the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City; standing there for over an hour this summer I watched as a mix of local schoolchildren and tourists came in to look, often overwhelmed by its earnestness and the power of the images on display.
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Mio plays Chester with a fascinating mix of wryness and earnestness — you're never sure how real his caustic cynicism is when he's faced with situations like, for instance, the brutal murder of Japanese soldiers by Americans — and over the course of the series they distill into the two halves of his personality.
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Natalie Mering has always had a knack for isolating emotions we don't even realize we're feeling and singing them "like the top's blown off"—and on Titanic Rising, that larger-than-life earnestness makes navigating a world rife with unending fires, existential confusion, and romantic missed connections feel almost like a hero's journey.
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The Babadook's queer legacy and our infatuation with it borrows on all these ideas: the desire to go with and improve upon the joke, the increasing earnestness around that joke, and the resulting amplification of the absurdity of a homosexual Babadook living a life of queer defiance by terrorizing a white, Australian family.
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What seemed to hold them all together in their obscurity was a love of mocking the earnestness and moral self-flattery of what felt like a tired liberal intellectual conformity running right through from establishment liberal politics to the more militant enforcers of new sensitivities from the wackiest corners of Tumblr to campus politics.
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Captions for the images often take the form of satirical takes on pre-existing corny puns: "Make this collection an instant plastic," while other moments are verbatim earnestness presented subversively: "Be the change you wish to see in the world" accompanies a text message excerpt about a date with a drunk Irish play-doh man.
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The impression I got from him was one of earnestness, and thoughtfulness; he listened intently to my questions and squinted in concentration as he answered, and despite his reputation for ego, seemed quite self-aware and even humble, especially when we talked about what it's like to play in Metallica as your day job.
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Dioramas created during the design process, three of them on view at the Morgan, show the irresistible combination of Baroque-style scenography, with its receding flats, and Sendak's inimitable drawing style — old and new, living and dead, in charming balance, teetering delightedly on the edge of kitsch but made with great craftsmanship and earnestness.
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Perhaps SNL's most fruitful recurring sketch in recent years is built around a tried-and-true formula: Kenan Thompson and Vanessa Bayer play parents of high school students sitting down to watch their "socially conscious" teens perform a show they wrote themselves, brimming with the adolescent musings and artistic earnestness that so many young artists possess.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads It is the rare exhibition that cuts through the earnestness and self-importance of some of conceptual art's supposedly heady offerings; it is even rarer for one to expose, in an illuminating and pleasurable way, the intellectual richness of its subject matter, reveling in its inventiveness while neatly unpacking its more obscure details.
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Moments of earnestness on these post-Seinfeld shows were constantly undercut by sharp punchlines, visual gags, cutaway shots, or meta narratives — the Ron Howard voiceover in Arrested Development, the mockumentary format of The Office — they all helped to frame the stories in ways that mirrored but broke through the laugh track effect of sitcoms of an earlier era.
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"It takes about two minutes of watching Robert Downey Jr. in action in Iron Man 3 — in any of his appearances as the armored Tony Stark, in fact — to realize what the other Avengers are lacking: Charisma," Graeme McMillan wrote in Time in 2013, bemoaning the Cap's stiffness and earnestness in comparison to the Avengers' other leader.
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Plus, there was the undeniable success of "Redbone," Gambino's first big hit achieved through his new M.O. of balancing earnestness with a touch of knowing absurdity, an approach that was already being further developed in Atlanta (whose lead character's name is a homonym for "Urn," maybe not intentionally but you can never know with the intricately knotted Gambino-verse).
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Even so, Housewives fans themselves are diverse — the tenor of the conversation these days celebrates how so many of its fans are feminists, women, gay men, and queer people who digest the shows with both earnestness and irony, and who understand that the Real Housewives is best viewed as fun escapism rather than something prescriptive or aspirational.
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I feel like a lot of other workplaces said that they see a lot of these same things, so I'm not sure it's particular to tech, except there does seem to be this Olympics of earnestness, and so the person who can be the most authentic in the most authentic way is somehow better than everyone else.
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His Batman (and, of course, his Bruce Wayne) was always the smartest, most sincere guy in the room, and West dedicated himself to that portrayal throughout the series' three-season run: Announcing Bat-clues with his patient, dry-as-driftwood delivery; imparting moral lessons with eager earnestness; and expressing disgust at the latest Joker or Egghead scheme with the same shocked surprise.
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It's questions like these that Blindspotting asks with an obvious air of knowing exactly what the hell it's talking about, and the result is some real earnestness mixed in with a lot of excellent jokes (like a relaunched burger place that requires meat-eating customers to specify they want a meat patty when they order, because the default is vegan).
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And while others her age may have been satisfied with taking painting classes through the local community college or continuing ed program (or even at the senior center) Painter applied the earnestness that had driven her through her scholarly career all the way through completion of a BFA at Mason Gross and then an M.F.A. at the Rhode Island School of Design.
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There's something about the earnestness combined with the fact that the stories of Mickey Mouse, his weird teen friend Sora, and the dozen other side characters who have constantly been experiencing loss and deleted memories and the deaths of their close friends over the past decade that makes Kingdom Hearts more than plot summaries or goofy cutscenes taken out of context.
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Moore's trademark baseball cap eventually became visible over the mob of news reporters; in introducing the film, the Flint, Michigan-born documentarian assumed his trademark mix of dadishness, earnestness, and bitterness, as when he agreed with Trump's distrust of the polls, saying that the "end-zone celebrations" that have greeted the Republican candidate's plummeting odds are what will elect Trump.
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This second desire has, of course, been a focus of other cultural organizations and museums (and likely some number of MoMA's staff) for decades, and it is both important and necessary that MoMA be explicit about the earnestness of this work today, particularly as it simultaneously upends and upholds some of the key categories and approaches that have defined it as an institution.
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One big reason Colombia was chosen for One Young World 2017 was the earnestness Santos and accompanying city leaders conveyed in their pitch, which the co-founders said was unmatched not just by other candidates but by anyone from the previous years -- Santos believes One Young World is powerful enough to provide some of the inspiration, innovation, and resources Colombia needs to rebuild.
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In the early years of the group, which disbanded after 2008, the dual notion of play and earnestness was paramount to them, as is evident in Hussain Sharif's large "Installation" (1995), which consists of junk knickknacks and found objects such as shoes, nails, broken toys, beer cans, plastic bottles — all embedded in small concrete platforms made to fit each object.
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Reclaiming our democracy requires an immediate and forceful intervention: reclaiming the earnestness of public service; re-embracing the essential unity of America; reconnecting our belief in personal progress and our personal potential to policies and systems that enable and ensure collective progress; and ensuring that those systems follow through on their intent to ensure safety, justice, and opportunity for everyone.
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Whether it's David learning to let Patrick's earnestness in (and, in turn, serenading him back with his own impassioned lip sync performance of Tina Turner's song) or Moira involving herself in the community both as a member of the Jazzagals and as an elected member of Schitt's Creek's Town Council, Levy has anchored the show on a warm-hearted embrace of caring about those around us.
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Rating In this TV version of events, Pete has no apartment or reserves of cash to his name — he thought his wife supporting him while he toured open mics was like "putting someone through medical school" — leading him to depend on the sporadic kindness of people who will let him crash on their couches, even if his total earnestness tends to freak jaded New Yorkers out.
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One thing that makes Berlin so valuable is her gift for evoking the sweetness and earnestness of young women who fall in love (one thinks that being a good wife is handing her husband his coffee handle first, while she grasps the hot side) and then catching them at that moment when things begin to turn, when the trees of their being are forced to grow bark.
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Although the dialogue is occasionally too on the nose, pronouncing the story's themes about loneliness and acceptance a little more directly than is necessary, the movie wins you over on its combination of earnestness and ingenuity: The flatulence jet ski is just one of the many bizarre uses Dano finds for Radcliffe's body — others include repurposing it as a water fountain, an ax, a harpoon gun, and a rocket.
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Playlist: "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" / "When I'm Sixty-Four" / "Lovely Rita" / "Honey Pie" / "Martha My Dear" / "You Gave Me the Answer" / "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" / "Your Mother Should Know" / "Her Majesty" Spotify | Apple Music McCartney's earnestness and sentimentality would sometimes tip a bit too far toward the saccharine side of the spectrum and bite him in the ass as a songwriter, but ultimately they are his greatest gift.
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Conceived, designed and directed by Theodora Skipitares, who has been active Off Off Broadway since the late 1970s, "Transfiguration" is theatrical time travel: to the 18th century of Benjamin Banneker, a self-taught African-American mathematician and astronomer, but also to the days — more recent but rapidly receding from memory — of a bohemian, avant-garde scene from the East Village that combined earnestness, engaged politics and wackadoo papier-mâché aesthetics.
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Born of that borderline self-sabotaging earnestness was the band Bleachers, an intensely personal project that Mr. Antonoff, 33, has put at the center of his life ever since; "Gone Now," out Friday, June 2, via RCA, is his second album under that moniker, and it furthers his maximalist approach to anthemic, life-affirming pop-rock about loss and just how taxing it is to be a decent human being.
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He repeats a handful of platitudes with apparent earnestness: that artists have nothing but their own intuition, that worrying about offending others prevents the creation of real art, that audiences should be grateful for the access they are given to artists' consciousness, and that the kind of judgment-free letting go it takes to view his works is directly analogous to the personal peace he has won through daily meditation.
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Mascots, for the most part, is just a gentle rehashing of Guest's best works: the exploration of a strange pocket in the world, the immense earnestness that often leads to sadness, the competitive nature (and the ridiculousness of watching people compete for something that means nothing), the usual cast (Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, Fred Willard, Ed Begley Jr., Christopher Guest reprising his role as Corky St. Clair, etc.), and the semi-improvisational nature.
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While some of the works' candor and earnestness sometimes failed to be matched with formal and aesthetic impact, and while the connection with, and progression from, the art historical legacy of the visionaries of Land Art wasn't always clear, the curators' herculean project and fresh energy offered a much-needed jolt of community and thought away from the hyper-commercialized art capitals — one week ahead of the inaugural edition of Frieze LA and two months before the Coachella music festival.
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Considering how easily pro athletes and celebrities manicure themselves for public consumption, it's just as easy to be skeptical of the warmness and earnestness Waterson displays elsewhere in the film, during slice-of-life moments where she disinfects tabletops with Lysol wipes and asks her daughter about circle time at school, suffering with a smile while elderly women in an elevator ask her about the crazy fighting stuff that she does, or tearing up while talking about her boxer husband going corporate to feed the family while she pursues dreams of fighting.
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