Sentence examples for amusing performances from inspiring English sources

It isn't, not really, though details and true stories from the book have been slipped into the mix amid amusing performances, historical re-creations and heavily perfumed fertilizer.

There were deftly, slyly amusing performances from a minxish Yvonne Borree and her deceptively laid-back partner, Albert Evans, in the second movement.

(Dargis) 'What to Expect When You're Expecting' (PG-13, 1 50) Much less scary than the best-selling self-help book on which it's based, this mild comedy is a cuddly tour of the contemporary culture of reproduction, with some amusing performances and a couple of good jokes.

A black comedy about a Vermont town's problems with a corpse that just will not stay buried, it had the virtues of amusing performances by Edmund Gwenn and (in her screen debut) Shirley MacLaine, but the film attracted little box-office business.

(Saltz) 'What to Expect When You're Expecting' (PG-13, 1 50) Much less scary than the best-selling self-help book on which it's based, this mild comedy is a cuddly tour of the contemporary culture of reproduction, with some amusing performances and a couple of good jokes.

Justin, growing up in Oregon without any role models in sight (Keanu Reeves, Vince Vaughn, and Benjamin Bratt all give amusing performances as stumbling adults), is very bright, but the boy, out of some mysterious mixture of pride and fear, initially won't define himself.

Borgnine's energetic, amusing performance even managed to incorporate some singing and the execution of a few dance steps.

And you can imagine how an amusing performance might emerge from the contrast between a palpably young woman and her exaggerated, grande dame world-weariness.

Ms. Weaver, who gives the movie's only amusing performance, recycles the hoity-toity airs of Katharine Parker, her cold, uppity vixen in "Working Girl," and adds an affectation: the pretentious tossing off of French phrases.

Elsewhere, there is spirited intellectual knockabout in the contest over values that pits our heroine against Lumsden, the National Trust man who, in Nicholas le Prevost's very amusing performance, is all bristling enthusiasm for a world of widened access and costumed interactivity.

A hit when it was released, this film has a couple of good action sequences and an amusing performance by John Garfield as a lovable womanizer named Wolf, but it's of interest today mainly as an example of how ham-handed wartime propaganda can be.