His off-screen manner - described as aloof and arrogant - did not endear him to executives.
But her on-screen manner was too wary, too chilly; the closest she has come to the sweetheart archetype has been in Gus Van Sant's "To Die For" (1995), in which she subverted it completely, playing a perky, sexy, ingratiating woman who was also a ruthless social climber, a sociopath and a murderer.
Willis said Palin's "amiable on-screen manner belies the seriousness of his craft", adding there were "few individuals more worthy" of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' highest honour.
The game displays one room at a time in a flick-screen manner: as the protagonist leaves a room, the screen is updated to display the next.
Gene correlation exhaustive analysis extracts genes that are correlated with the gene of interest in a non-intuitive, i.e. screening, manner.
A library of 176 synthetic chemicals was prepared and examined in a high-throughput screening (HTS) manner using nine enzyme-based and five receptor-based bioassays.
Presumably he was so dazzled by the Tony award-winning play that he simply lost sight of the movie, for despite the best efforts of the A-list cast (Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz, Kate Winslet, John C Reilly), this creaks and groans and moans its way around the screen in a manner that is every bit as annoying as the characters it portrays.
Perhaps because of this complexity, the lives of children in or on the edges of foster care have rarely been shown on screen in a manner approaching realism.
And if the bloggers' words were just going straight on to a feed along the bottom of the screen, in the manner of those late-night video-channel shout-outs, I wouldn't object (well, only aesthetically).
At some point, over the next couple of days, once a sufficient number of words has appeared on that screen in a manner I can just about live with, I will sign in to my e-mail account and send a file containing them to an editor several thousand miles away.
Looking better on second viewing (at least to this reviewer), Dredd remains a severely flawed but still honourable attempt to transfer the savage satire of the strip to screen in a manner that expunges forever the memory of Stallone's dopey yuck-fest.
