To an eye accustomed to Raimi's signature cartoon violence and oversized characters, "A Simple Plan" is the picture of restraint--a sincere character-driven drama.
But, unlike his often foolish and always sincere characters, he possesses the discipline of a great artist, who knows that in dreams lie responsibilities: to build a world, one must first fashion the bricks.
Smart-alecks make bad pupils but excellent students of human nature: Roberts is good at what she does not only because she is prolific but also because she can write zingy dialogue and portray scrappy but sincere characters.
This pattern recalls "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," where the impossibly oafish anchorman Ted Baxter, played by Ted Knight, contrasted with the relatively sincere characters of Mary and Lou Ed Asnerr), who dealt with "real" news and issues in a more sober manner.
Whenever he did speak, his words were sincere, reflecting his character.
We miss your charm, wit, charisma, enthusiasm for life, love for learning and sincere warmth of character.
He added, in a tone so humble and sincere that his character would never have used it: "She taught me to be grateful for my life regardless of what that entailed, and that's directly related to the image of Christ on the cross and the example of sacrifice that he gave us.
Lieberman is, in his own way, an all-American -- i.e., Christian -- character, earnest, hokey, friendly and sincere as all get-out.
For example, Hank Azaria, who plays Comic Book Guy among other characters in the series, had a difficult time trying to make the character sound sincere.
"[Nas's character] Sincere didn't really exist," Shakim Bio, who wrote about street life in The Omega Jon Christ - The Last Illest and is currently incarcerated with Al Monday in Ohio, told us.
