Or perhaps what he can't do is work in a single voice, in a mode of pure sincerity, whatever he's doing.
The mixture of great and pure sincerity?
How to Deal, granted, is a cinematic dish best enjoyed with a sprinkling of irony but Steinfeld's turn here is pure sincerity, straight from the tap.
As the basic attitude toward life, Shintō emphasizes makoto no kokoro ("heart of truth"), or magokoro ("true heart"), which is usually translated as "sincerity, pure heart, uprightness".
Poised between satire and sincerity, pure noise and politics, "Credo in Us" left the rest of the program seeming obvious (though Louis Andriessen's raucous 30-player "Worker's Union," its formidable display of rhythmic discipline always threatening to unravel, held its own).
My favorite passage comes from a 1975 letter to his then-wife, Winnie: "Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others — qualities which are within easy reach of every soul — are the foundation of one's spiritual life.
The first glimpse of the Empire State Building brought forth an outburst of patriotic emotion of unquestionable sincerity expressed in the purest Bronx.
Others thought he avoided the question of how he was going to convince those strong women to, you know, vote for him.. @tedcruz 's sincerity in Wisconsin Town Hall is pure Frank Underwood.
Which brings me to the second reason he is Pure Writer: a fundamental, seamless, in-the-blood artistic sincerity.
[Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning — different, but every bit as pure.
It could be kitsch; instead, when danced with the simple sincerity (and technical skill) of Ms. Seo and Mr. Matthews, it's pure enchantment.
