Sentence examples for realistic acting from inspiring English sources

What does straightforward realistic acting do?

I'm also a fan of Joseph Mankiewicz's "Guys and Dolls," with its blatantly theatrical artifice balanced by some astringently realistic acting.

Though Old Mother Riley was militant and uproarious, I agree with the reviewer in Liverpool who, in 1935, commended Lucan for combining – in method and in effect – "realistic acting with excursions into slapstick comedy".

In this dramatically abstract staging, the director Stephen Lawless contrasts realistic acting for the main characters with highly stylized, almost choreographic movements for the choruses of sailors and seamstresses.

Judging from the recent critical huzzahs, the actors and director of the Roundabout Theater Company production have found that "strange style": a high-voltage combination of realistic acting with a sketched-in amphitheater of a set and heightened lighting and sound effects that give this tale of a Brooklyn longshoreman's fall the tragic dimension Mr. Miller envisioned.

Brooks describes Richard Pryor's standup performances as more than funny, as "extraordinary realistic acting" that went far beyond what he did when he played roles in movies.

To improve design and preclinical test scenarios of shoulder joint implants as well as computer-based musculoskeletal models, a precise knowledge of realistic loads acting in vivo is necessary.

It was during this period that actor Charles Macklin (a native of Inishowen in County Donegal in Ulster) rose to fame, propelled by a singular performance as Shylock in an early 1741 production of The Merchant of Venice, in which he introduced a realistic, naturalistic style of acting, abandoning the artificial bombast typical to dramatic roles prior.

"She was never interested in a realistic style of acting," said Manuel Puig, the Argentine author, in 1990.

Her production of Three Sisters at the National was so realistic, and the acting so detailed, I felt I was spying on an actual house.

In some way, the biggest compliment was when my older sister said after reading Sisterland: "Are you psychic?" Your characters, especially your female characters, are all the more realistic for sometimes acting in unexpected or unlikable ways.