Paul Higgins as the self-firing canon, Anna Casder-Marshall as the worried verger and Shereen Martin as a silk-smooth City lawyer all offer good support and, even if I find it hard to believe the Dean's rookie PA would be given so much licence, Rebecca Humphries plays her with the right desperate sincerity.
But applied to the right target, her sincerity is disarming, too.
But given Clarke's ability at administering the needle, and given Woods's ability for the same, it's safe to say there probably was some salty language combined with some well-aimed insults mixed in with just the right amount of sincerity to be effective.
Make sure the message condones the right level of sincerity; baptism is a very important event for most believers.
The term "movie star," with so much dazzling sincerity built right into it, sounds quaint, even naÛve.
Mrs. Kumaratunga, who was nearly killed by a Tiger suicide bomber and blinded in her right eye, doubted the sincerity of the Tigers' offer of talks and refused to reciprocate a four-month-long cease-fire the Tigers observed starting last Dec. 24.
I have no right to doubt the sincerity of that motive.
If Jonathan Fitzgerald is right that the New Sincerity is making a new, earnest morality possible, it's also the case a that a New and Faithful Pluralism is helping more and more Christians explore themes like these, saved anew by the radical implications of a God bound by love over retributive justice.
To break down more atoms in the power of white superiority DNA (a/k/a racism), had Tyson not answered the question with just the right combination of tone, sincerity, and levity, and with the wisdom to answer the question with a better question -- meaning had he responded with signs of aggression or any attribute of a rebellious Negro -- let's just say he might not have a primetime show.
Captain Fuentes insisted that his views had changed since he finished and circulated the article -- a research paper that he considered publishing -- three years ago, but many civil rights advocates questioned his sincerity.
