Sentence examples for showy actor from inspiring English sources
"He is not a showy actor.
Bryant was not a showy actor, more a fastidious perfectionist in the style of Alec Guinness.
"It's a fine line," she added, "because if it's too showy, actors will feel it's distracting, and a deaf audience will feel it's distracting".
Perényi is not a showy player.
As one of the least showy character actors in Hollywood, it's often easy to overlook the work of Chris Cooper.
In limited release after arriving Friday in 130 theaters across the country, the sci-fi thriller's impressive production values, elegant visuals and showy turn by actor Laurence Fishburne belie "The Signal's" relatively tiny $4-million price tag.
They offer wonderfully showy roles for actors.
It's the perfect, showy vehicle for an actor of his calibre, and – toe-curling language aside – it will never be bettered.
She's joined by an expanded supporting cast of top actors in showy roles – from Sutherland's President Snow to Philip Seymour Hoffman's sinister Games Maker Plutarch, Woody Harrelson's mentor Haymitch and, most delectable of all, Stanley Tucci's Caesar Flickerman, TV anchor for the Games and a cross between Larry Grayson and a great white shark.
No longer will we have to watch otherwise talented and charming actors spewing forth showy but empty dialogue and looking vaguely embarrassed as we're confronted with yet another banal story about the legal rights of multi-national corporations.
Mr. Rohmer's casting of nonprofessional actors and his disdain for showy camera techniques and background music disguise the crystalline artifice of his plots, which becomes apparent only in retrospect.
