Sentence examples for persuasive actors from inspiring English sources

Mr. Gelb's commitment to promoting gifted singers who are also persuasive actors has sometimes been confused with the practice — deplored mostly in theory by opera lovers — of simply favoring looks over voice.

The persuasive actors include Tessa Klein as David's upscale lawyer wife (who disappears for a long stretch of the play but gets a gasp when she comes back), Brian Kim as a Chinese investor who casts Labour's priorities into sharp relief, Marcus Kyd as a hard-left local council member and Emily Kester as a woman who gets drawn into activism.

And sometimes, musicians are revealed as natural and persuasive actors, as in the case of Mos Def, the hip hop artist who replaced Don Cheadle in Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog, offering a performance as surprising and evocative as any of his album work.

Henry V is a protean figure and a persuasive actor.

"Lone Star" offers an amusing and novel television conceit, but in an age of Enron and Bernard Madoff, it takes a very persuasive actor to keep viewers rooting for a swindler.

This is very much an ensemble show, but its success still depends to a large extent on having a persuasive actor in the role of Valli, the short guy who reached some pretty wild heights with his almost burly falsetto, creating the defining sound of the Four Seasons.

Both performers have great prowess as singers but are less persuasive as actors.

It is the conceit of "Source Code" that we find out what is going on at the same time Stevens does, and the explanation is so complicated that it's a good thing Dr. Rutledge, the man who finally provides the details, is played by as calm and persuasive an actor as Wright.

Mr. Pullman is not Harrison Ford, obviously, but he is a gifted character actor persuasive as a guilt-ridden husband who maintains that he is innocent of murder.

Gallagher, while an emotionally persuasive and likable actor, hasn't yet captured the divided self that the rest of the cast portrays so finely.

Mr. Ovitz planned to argue that the fish was Steven Seagal's fault — Ms. Busch had been reporting about Mr. Seagal as well — though the F.B.I. found no persuasive evidence that the actor was involved, according to The Hollywood Reporter.