"She's a lightning rod and a galvanizer — you can see the determination and earnestness in her eyes — and yet she's graceful, seductive and sophisticated," said Linda Fargo, the fashion director of Bergdorf Goodman, which recently started carrying Coquette Atelier.
But as the sun rose, I was stunned to realize I'd completed Preparation for the Next Life and had fallen in love with its grittiness and earnestness in exploring a part of New York City—and the American mind-set that few locals have ever seen.
And it was the invasion of Iraq that cast his evident empathy and earnestness in a new and quite damaging light.
Yet, Fan and Park's sincerity and earnestness in attempting to represent as many perspectives and stories hews admirable, even inspiring. .
And somehow, with all the earnestness in the world, The Blow pull it off.
What makes this all feel reasonably unforced is the abiding earnestness in the songwriting, and not just on ballads like "New York" and "This Isn't Everything You Are".
Ms. Paulson's teary earnestness in the climactic scene rings true, and yet it's not the whole story.
Assayas looms in "Clouds of Sils Maria" as the last director, the last creator, whose successors, the special-effects adventurers — sensible, capable, strong, self-aware — will repackage his humanistic earnestness in the spirit of perpetual adolescence and ingenuousness.
This task is enunciated with particular earnestness in the writings of the Prophets.
For all its pathos and earnestness, the movie is too glib in its handling of the Nazis.
