Sentence examples for convincing actor from inspiring English sources

He is a master rhymer, convincing actor, stinging critic of critics and vicious prankster.

"Tap dancing his way through life," he muses of Brucie, "while bestowing his prodigious gifts upon us all, his genes have allowed him to become a skilled pianist, tuneful singer, convincing actor and magnificent TV host.

In the words of critic Elaine Mancini, Duvall was "the most technically proficient, the most versatile, and the most convincing actor on the screen in the United States".

At times it is hard to watch, but it's even harder to work out whether what he's saying is genuine: he's a convincing actor.

Fewer than one in five of us possesses a theory of mind enabling six, or possibly more, levels of social understanding regarding who knows what about whom – a crucial ability if you want to be a good writer of exciting fiction, fathom a social truth or be a convincing actor.

As hinted at in the interrogation scene last week, Cohle is a convincing actor, but there's a sense at times here that he's getting into the role of his biker alter-ego (he goes by the name of Crash) a little too much; there's a relish to the way that he tells Hart about Mexican cartels' grisly execution methods that suggests an attraction to the high-risk thrills of the outlaw lifestyle.

Like David Lynch, whose cinematic presence is palpable in the early, eerie scenes in Antichrist - the strange noises off-camera are very Lynchian - one of von Trier's singular gifts is that he can convince actors to do things they would never dream of doing for anyone else.

Considering that most forest carbon standards are younger than five years, those that define standards must convince actors to apply them by showing and communicating their effectiveness and their legitimacy.

Interessement represents the second moment of translation, which involves a process of convincing other actors to accept the definition of the focal actor [ 17].

"We had quite a hard time convincing the actors because of the ghosts that haunted it".

(Surgeon 5, local hospital) The difference in practice behaviour between 'actors who were' and 'actors who were not' involved in EVAR reflected the challenge of convincing local actors to have trust in the procedure and to account for developments of new EVAR technologies in risk assessments and decision-making.