The idea of the film is earnest, substantial, moving, and quite beautiful — in its idea, its motivation, its motivating principle.
Gus has no symptoms that the audience can see except once losing his place in a voluble, earnest and moving speech.
"The suicide note — and I'm being deadly earnest — is moving, strange, harrowing and peculiar literature," said Simon Critchley, an author and philosophy professor at the New School.
Later, when NATO began to look for him in earnest, he moved around the mountainous regions of Bosnia and in neighboring Montenegro, where he was born.
Even this plea from O'Shea, which was as long as it was earnest, could not move East to change his mind.
If Americans are to be inspired any time soon to extract their wallets in earnest, what will move them to do so is novelty and real design.
An enormously good-willed, very earnest and often moving work of theatrical journalism.
Her slyly subversive drama ambushes its audience with an earnest and surprisingly moving Christian church service that might be the most unlikely provocation produced in years.
Dunlop's love affair with China began in earnest when she moved to Chengdu in 1994, becoming the first foreigner to enroll in the professional chefs' training course at the Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine.
By 1995, she began pursuing her dream in earnest when she moved to New York and joined the HERE Arts Center working in the box office.
