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- adjective Pertaining or proper to an
actor
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Examples
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Paulina Gaitan had extensive experience in Mexican television, but she does not give an "actorly" performance as Sayra.
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Paulina Gaitan had extensive experience in Mexican television, but she does not give an "actorly" performance as Sayra.
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thinking it was some kind of actorly affectation like Tom Cruise is bucking for awards!
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Mr. Assayas's fluid camera, sensitivity to actorly dynamics, and affinity for globalized scenarios flow perfectly, animating a historical cipher as a vain, ego-driven, real-life Bond villain who seduces dark-eyed women and Third World leaders with equal ease — even if most of his operations were bungled jobs.
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LFF screenings no longer open with a handsomely mounted short film, nor does an actorly voice belonging to Michael Caine or Chiwetel Ejiofor tell us we're watching the best films from around the world, here, in London.
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With his gentle disposition – the impeccable manners seem second nature rather than an actorly affectation – you rather wonder how Redmayne will cope with the spotlight.
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A subtler, actorly touch: the way he lowered his voice to just above a whisper for his triumph-of-the-American-spirit moment "We do big things!"
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It's a hermetic, actorly event—a humid exploration of William Faulkner 's epigram, The past is never dead.
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It's a hermetic, actorly event—a humid exploration of William Faulkner 's epigram, The past is never dead.
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A subtler, actorly touch: the way he lowered his voice to just above a whisper for his triumph-of-the-American-spirit moment "We do big things!"
State of the political body language: Did Obama, Ryan, Bachmann have the moves to impress at SOTU?
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