Sentence examples for making their characters from inspiring English sources

In keeping with their dress, the actors casually give modern inflections to the text, cheerfully running roughshod over the play's poetry but making their characters' intentions clear.

Both of the actresses said they recognized hypocrisy in those lines of dialogue yet had to find ways to play the moments without making their characters look foolish.

Both have voices that are a bit light for these dramatic roles, and both seemed only vaguely interested in making their characters larger than life.

Troy Lavallee as Bruno and Morgan Lynch as Stella work hard at making their characters credible, but Ms. Lynch tends toward hysteria, and Mr. Lavallee is more frightening than funny.

Only Milton Goncalves, as Orfeu's father, Inacio, who has given up music for religion, and Zeze Motta, as his hotheaded wife, Conceicao, succeed in making their characters real people as well as archetypes.

With the exception of Jurian Hughes, whose Janet seems genuinely to emanate from within, the cast is game but overmatched (and in a couple of cases hapless); most of the players spend more effort straining with the regional patois than making their characters engage with one another.

Part of the problem is that actors tend to make their characters interesting.

Ms. Nicholson and Mr. Cole work in an earnest, naturalistic vein that, perversely, makes their characters feel less credible.

Few writers can make their characters speak with the kind of bristling naturalism that litters a Wainwright script.

Ms. Evans and Ms. Weems have an easy rapport and make their characters something more than generational emblems.

And Mr. Albanese and Ms. Buy, in their un-showy ways, make their characters and their deeply lived-in relationship entirely believable.