Coupled with clever dialogue, good acting, and mastery of the camera, the film is absorbing when it is not repulsive.
More bizarre still, Arena's mastery of acting during his life as a prisoner has been acknowledged at the highest level: he stars in a jewel of a film which won the 2012 grand prix at Cannes, where he also narrowly missed being proclaimed best actor.
Because much of the Ross performance seemed built around an upstage wink and a mastery of acting for the small screen, some believed that Mr. Clooney could never discard the angled nod of the head he always used to communicate that he was listening.
They took it to consist in the mastery not of facts but of ways of acting (dao).
One need not do or become anything in particular to enjoy political liberty in the republican sense; one need not exercise self-mastery, on any view of what that entails, nor succeed in acting on one's second-order desires (Skinner 1984; Spitz 1993).
Mr. Fischer, he said, has approached his directorial efforts with a mastery of Mozart's operas, and sometimes showed cast members what he wanted by acting it out for them.
His marvelous mastery of the vocabulary of academic ballet is subtly combined with a sense of sublimated acting.
In the fierce title role, Sherman Howard is a major player indeed, maneuvering an acting journey that begins with a most believable disorientation and uncontestable derangement, and winds up with the cool mastery of a fine, feigned madness.
Unlike many of his contemporaries whose success can be attributed more to physical presence than acting skills, Ekhof was small in stature and somewhat homely; his prominence was largely the result of hard work and mastery of his craft.
Mr. Codey's advisers say that the acting governor's humble roots will allow him to connect with middle-class voters, and 30 years experience in Trenton given him an unmatched mastery of the workings of state government.
