Ms. Livljanic enacted the ancient drama with splendidly pure singing in Croatian, urgent narration, a penetrating gaze and expressive hands.
With her expressive features and unwavering gaze, Peake suggests at different times a chirpy, bright-eyed resilience or a terrified surrender to despair as she endures her travail-filled travels.
There was then, and there still is, a prevailing taste for laboriously showy performance, for the sort of theatricalized accents and grimaces and pregnant gazes and expressive emphases that take an actor outside him- or herself by means of conspicuous displays of skill.
These features may include gaze avoidance, lack of expressive facial responses, irregularities in speech, repetitive and obsessive behaviours, and delayed development of motor skills.
The title role was created on Tsygankova, and with her lively gaze, eloquent line, and expressive arms, she's a captivating heroine.
His gaze was intent, and his vivid, expressive face shifted rapidly from humor to anger and back again; his voice was loud and deep, and his speech carried within it all the contradictions of the jailhouse autodidact.
Between the shape of the exposed eye, direction of gaze, eyebrows, wrinkles (for those of us expressive enough to have them) and so on, there's actually quite a bit of information there.
All four of the principals have large and expressive ones, which Aronofsky captures with many closeups in which the gaze is frozen and often fixed on an object or a person beyond the edge of the screen.
The camera slowly pans around Oh's expressive face as she describes Vilanelle's affect more than her appearance her gaze is "almost entirely inaccessible," her hair is the color of "honey," and her features are "very delicate".
In "Flight of the Red Balloon" he makes particularly expressive use of glass, as when Simon stares out a window and his gaze is met by his own reflection, a doubling that echoes the scene before, when the red balloon pauses next to its painted twinned image floating on a mural.
It is almost a chilling gaze you feel upon you, as gentle as it may be — something not of this world but ineffable, expressive of God, like the gaze of an animal.
