She captures the character's mix of vulnerability, vengefulness, craving for canine affection ("Let's tickle," she says to her dog) and sharp eye for hypocrisy: Atkins is at her very best when, with her fiercely challenging gaze, she attacks an acquisitive society and, specifically, city wives "in one year wasting what scarce twenty win".
Ronan captures brilliantly her character's strange mix of vulnerability and steeliness.
Her two emotionally layered solos, "Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee" and "There Are Worse Things I Could Do," ranked as some of the night's best performances, particularly the latter in which Hudgens was unafraid to tap into the character's heartbreaking declaration of vulnerability.
Her two emotionally layered solos, "Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee" and "There Are Worse Things I Could Do," ranked as some of the night's best performances, particularly the latter in which Hudgens was unafraid to tap into the character's heartbreaking declaration of vulnerability. .
He said he found it important to humanize the character by finding some shred of vulnerability behind the cackling fiend with the solid-gold pistol.
Younger than the typical Higgins (but more the age Shaw imagined), Mr. Hadden-Paton, best known for playing unambiguous good guys on "Downton Abbey" and "The Crown," makes sense of the character's on-off switch of vulnerability and hauteur.
It is most often used in reference to body parts where you would expect a possessive ("moved the hand", "licked the lips") and seems to me a distancing technique at moments of intense emotion which imbues the characters with a distinct aura of vulnerability – a form of British 'stiff upper lip' which makes the characters, and their situations, seem somehow real, even when they are absurd.
How many insights did he have — as he sat in recruits' homes, or in locker rooms, or in administrative offices, or even just with prominent people who wanted football tickets — into the character of adults and the vulnerability of children, and the capacity of one to betray the other?
The past literatures have studied both 'urban resilience (UR)' and 'urban sustainability (US)' in terms of the dual character - vulnerability and pertinacity - of cities.
Director Chris Buck believed that Menzel's vocals would help in the portrayal of the character, saying, "Idina has a sense of vulnerability in her voice.
