Earnestness

But the point is delivered so movingly and with such earnestness that you can’t help but get swept along by the sentiment.

Kitasan Black's earnestness makes her difficult to hate, and the secondary characters are fully fleshed out since they all clearly have their own goals and motives driving them forward.

Overall, the earnestness of this show makes it a weirdly endearing listen.

With a book and lyrics written somewhat clumsily by Rebekah Greer Melocik (The Last Queen of Canaan) alongside some fine music created by Jacob Yandura (), the new musical tries with a strong earnestness to remain true to its ultimate stance.

With his earnestness and often comedic unawareness, the character provided both levity and heart in a universe filled with intense, larger-than-life figures.

And honestly, that was one of my favorite parts--there's a sweet earnestness to that video that is endearing.

But even in the messy messaging, you can feel Vigalondo's earnestness to communicate about the self-destruction inherent in grieving.

But “Time Cut” approaches life and death — and, in a surprising twist, pre-marriage-equality queerness — with real earnestness, an approach to horror storytelling that its young target audience will embrace more than I did.

However, their earnestness and commitment are so obvious that no fan can resist; cast is game, jumping head-first and emerging mostly unscathed.

Seriously, a play focusing on BFFs (as if critics have friends!) flavoured with lashings of late- Millennial earnestness (kill me now) sounded like a terrible idea.

Top of that roster: Ari Aster, whose artistic partner Lars Knudsen was chief enabler on this highly eccentric project — which is admirable for the absurdist earnestness with which it was created.

Delta Goodrem and Colin Hay’s version of robs the song of its irreverent humour and replaces it with a po-faced earnestness that doesn’t work.

Dismissed in some circles as lite, John Turteltaub's duology is a winning combination of old-fashioned adventure and earnestness that doubles in a quick lesson in American history, but the first installment remains a long way away from critical acclaim.

Then a calm returned to his voice as he assured himself: “But I think things resonate more if there’s an underlying earnestness to them,” he said.

This work of ramshackle earnestness and generosity lit a path through a very dark summer.

With his sardonic wit, he was a refreshing bit of irony in a show otherwise known for its earnestness.

Charming a crowd with earnestness is vintage Trudeau, but on this occasion, it isn’t clicking.

He extended this proposition to laughably unsupportable lengths, delivering lines such as, “A lot more people now have a voice – almost half the world,” in all apparent earnestness.

It takes a lot to sneer at a superhero whose earnestness is arguably as much of a superpower as the proportional strength and speed of a radioactive spider is, but the feeling has grown nonetheless thanks to the studio forces behind him.

Often this particular earnestness is vulgar, using bluntness as an antidote to self-regard.