Haneke has always had a gift for eliciting extraordinary performances from his actors, an absolute necessity in films that otherwise refuse to cater to the audience.
Paul Giamatti is one of our great screen actors, an absolute poet of frustration and regret with the range to play a wide variety of roles.
2014: GQ's Man of the Year Award Starr has received praise from critics and movie industry professionals regarding his acting; director and producer Walter Shenson called him "a superb actor, an absolute natural".
Whereas other-only traits are clearly altruistic because involve an absolute cost to the actor, whole-group behaviours generate confusion in the definition of altruism as they may be mutually beneficial to both the actor and the recipients [ 4, 5].
Wilson [ 3, 6] had previously coined the terms 'strong altruism' for those traits involving an absolute cost to the actor (i.e. other-only traits count always as strongly altruistic), and 'weak altruism' when the cost to the actor is only relative.
A superb, nuanced, naughty actor and an absolute gentleman.
Our results do pose a serious challenge to the universally accepted view that kin selection is the key component to explain altruistic behaviours that impose an absolute fitness cost to the actor and, to some extent, might be relevant to understand the origin (as opposed to the maintenance) of eusociality [ 28, 29].
I've nothing against his actor – who is an absolute ball as Rex "Power" Colt in the 80s action movie-spoofing video game Far Cry: Blood Dragon, and has been cool in some films – but c'mon, now: don't let Gearbox's gratuitous abuse of their privileges adversely affect this opportunity for a fresh start.
I like it very much, with the proviso that grey-tinted Druidic recreations by unconvincingly bewigged actors be kept to an absolute minimum.
The actor said it was an "absolute thrill" to perform the play on the stage that it "first found its voice".
