It helps that while Cage talks so earnestly about meaning and art he finds himself endearingly, irresistibly drawn to hokey sci-fi plotting.
The actual purpose of her email, I assumed (correctly), was to gain contact information for the Thai dealer from whom Schopenhauer ordered his giant Xanax; in exchange, I sensed, Mouly would earnestly commission me to draw the cover of an issue of The New Yorker.Within minutes I emailed Mouly the Thai dealer's email address and began to draft my submission in Photoshop.
Mr. Nanjo refers to Mr. Xu's earnestly absurd riffs on language, which, in a shrinking world increasingly dominated by English, are drawn from the artist's own nomadic experience.
It could be that bookstore browsers have been drawn in by the book's cheerful yellow cover, with its droll illustration of a panda earnestly painting over the comma in the title, a visual reference to a panda-based joke about punctuation mishaps.
One of them, though, though he paused as often as his fellows and squinted as earnestly at the athlete, was drawing a four-motored bomber.
People trying earnestly to get drunk.
An old Christian prayer puts it this way: "You that do truly and earnestly repent of your sins [i.e., your wrong doings], and are in love and charity with your neighbor, draw near with faith".
When he draws an explanatory diagram of the chitin molecule — chitin is the principal component of mycelium, the white, rootlike vegetative structure of fungi — he bends over his work, then looks up earnestly to see if his hearer has understood.
So earnestly did Ms. Pitt continue to inhabit her screen persona that she was known on occasion to bite the necks of interviewers — not enough to draw blood but enough for dramatic impact.
