At fifty-two, shashas a mild, earnest appearance (a rounded, friendly face, windblown blond hair), and yet in conversation she is absolutely fierce, focussed, picking apart the careless question, delighted by the unexpected one.
Brayton, a young man, whose clean-cut, earnest appearance calls to mind that of a dark-haired altar boy, was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder when he was 29.
This week, the festival gets under way in earnest with an appearance by Wim Hof, a native of Amsterdam whose ability to control his body temperature through Tumo meditation has earned him the nickname the Iceman, as well as a number of world records for endurance (though climbing Mt. Everest in shorts is not one of them; he failed in his attempt last year).
The directors are quite earnest about the appearance and reappearance of their various stars, inviting us to have genuine faith in the blah of eternal recurrence, and there is something grindingly circular in a film that exerts immense — and, to be fair, often spectacular — energy to connect human beings across space and time, only to conclude with the startling news that we are all connected.
The directors are quite earnest about the appearance and reappearance of their various stars, inviting us to have genuine faith in the blah of eternal recurrence, and there is something grindingly circular in a film that exerts immense and, to be fair, often spectacular energy to connect human beings across space and time, only to conclude with the startling news that we are all connected.
Why not mix it up so that one week the earnest Swedes count the appearance of characters of colour, the next week they quantify the presence of fat characters, or gay characters, or Muslim characters, or characters in wheelchairs?
Sacking the government - and the hated interior minister in particular - was a cosmetic change directed not so much at Egypt's citizens but at the US, designed to project the appearance of earnest and vigorous reform.
"This is the kind of compromise that the president's been seeking from Republicans for years now," Earnest said in an appearance on MSNBC.
On Wednesday, his official Twitter account responded in kind, releasing what could be his final video appearance: an earnest, unprompted speech Lee made about how much he valued his fans.
The key to the lingering power of this production is the seductive performance of Mr. Shawn, whose gnomelike appearance, lisp and earnest delight in self-justification make Jack insidiously ingratiating.
Walker, who was in "The Skulls," another trashy film directed by Cohen, is tall, blond, and dimly earnest — not individual enough in appearance or manner, I would guess, to become a genuine movie star like Keanu Reeves, who played a similar role a decade ago in a surfer-gang movie called "Point Break".
