Sentence examples for ham actor from inspiring English sources

Superman gasps in fake surprise, always the ham actor.

The best politicians have a ham actor inside them.

On radio, Matthews played Charles Paris, Simon Brett's ham actor turned detective.

Mrs A. M. Walden: Ham actor dashing off set has a few (Cumber(batch) + some; ham2).

The maddeningly goofy Rene is a compulsive talker with a streak of the ham actor in him.

V is into Shakespeare, too, and, like a windy ham actor in his dotage, quotes "Macbeth" at every chance.

He might not have intended to become a television personality, but he had begun dabbling in the medium, and in the classroom he followed an old professor's advice that good teachers had to be good ham actors.

We had seen one after another of our friends' children--charming children of parents who parse Greek texts or write long metafictions set in the eighteenth century--sunk dumbly in front of a television set watching a man in a cheap purple dinosaur suit sing doggerel in an adenoidal voice with a chorus of over-regimented eight-year-old ham actors.

Like ham actors, they are soaked in the theatricality of their own predicament: when Mirren says that in the tower her children grew to have an "ashen inmate look," her tone takes on a melodramatic detachment, as if Alice were congratulating herself on her delivery of this vivid line.

This class warfare is typically crystallized by the presence of a lone female character, the inviolate daughter-of-somebody-important, a proud young woman with magnificent shoulders and flashing eyes who stands by, in a spectacular gown, all but speechless as gifted ham actors spout outrageous pirate lingo.

Quite rightly, Cleary treats it as the period piece it is, but he and designer Chloe Lamford also look forward to later Walsh plays with a set suggesting a stage within a stage on which Runt and Pig are condemned, like two ham actors, to act out the same script.