Suddenly, we are the reverse of what history has told us we should be; suddenly, we have become dutiful supporting actors in someone else's victory drama.
You may feel a distinct surge of fellow-feeling for the stenographer clicking away on a machine at stage left, or at least the actor dutifully portraying him.
The Post, however, whose photographer Baldwin had insulted on his way into court, dutifully noted the actor was dabbing at dry eyes while he got emotional.
Decency is what separates rational economic actors, dutifully maximising their personal benefit, from the racaille, from scum.
Many of these characters are well known and dutifully impersonated by actors who never quite manage to match the full, florid individuality of the real-life models.
Nonetheless, the musty air of the schoolroom keeps creeping in, a sense of actors delivering dutifully memorized, lengthy monologues directly to the audience and hoping that the meaning will sink in.
Shawn is dutifully accompanied by Gus (the stage and screen actor Dulé Hill), the knowing straight man who provides a good deal of comic relief of his own during their misadventures.
The young English actor Aidan Gillen makes a smashing Broadway debut in this dutiful revival of Harold Pinter's breakthrough drama.
Nonetheless, "A Song Is Born" is an improvement on "Ball of Fire," which is one of Hawks's most dutiful, least-inspired directorial efforts, due to its overstuffed script and actors who couldn't speed it up to the wondrously ludicrous pace with which Hawks had torn through the overwritten screenplay of "His Girl Friday".
"Behind the Candelabra": There's been so much giggly chatter about Michael Douglas and Matt Damon playing the mink-coat-flapping, crystal-encrusted Liberace and his dutiful young lover that everyone seems to have forgotten that the first two are, you know, actors.
