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Pike provides both comic foil and love interest for Atkinson – all wide eyes, earnest expressions and fitted shift dresses.
So what's the point of Philomena Cunk? "We're sending up all the moves of TV presenters: the earnest expressions, the white gloves, sobbing over the manuscripts, all that – through the prism of someone who's very dim".
But often people reminded him with their praise, their earnest expressions of admiration that came, he said, in various forms of the same thought: "If I were in your position, I would kill myself".
With their distended bellies, stick-like arms and legs, and earnest expressions, the naked figures have a whimsical quality, though their anatomy is frankly rendered — something unusual for the period.
Ben Whishaw puts an endearing spin on the good-hearted cub's lines, but forced charm of Paddington's earnest expressions deprives him of any of the Chaplinesque cheek that his frustrations, as a perpetual outsider, suggest.
The first stage of actor training is often reminding students of this innate capacity, scraping away all those creaky ideas of Acting with a capital A: the affected voices, stiff walks, earnest expressions and ornate intonations which aren't acting at all but just Doing Something (To Mask Our Embarrassment).
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Eduardo Saverin, played by Andrew Garfield, is taller and better looking, but his handsomeness is undercut by an earnest expression that's always on the verge of crumpling with joy or anxiety.
Drab campaign posters hang over main roads, each featuring a middle-aged grey-haired man in a dark suit staring out at voters with an earnest expression on his face.
#FreeKesha is a lovely and earnest expression of empathy; it is also heartbreaking that the most, it seems, women – even powerful women in the music industry – can do is tweet.
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