Stanwyck's inward performance, one of her most brilliant — even the back of her head is somehow stunningly expressive — contrasts with Huston's gleefully over-the-top histrionics, which actors playing crazed patriarchs have strained to match ever since.
Just when I was ready to give up, Mr. Pittu strolled or pranced back onstage, playing one of several different roles with impeccably rich comic style, his expressive face somehow pinched into a new shape.
Pickles said of the episode: "It's the gentle, facially expressive, deeply sceptical, somehow slightly daft performance of Davies as Creek that makes this sleuthing drama such a glory.
The point is that, under interrogation, Perelman is keeping back more than he is betraying, however definitive we want Penn's portrait to be; whereas the nudes, who are denied even the right to smile, somehow wind up seeming twice as expressive as any formal head shot.
He tells these tales the way he plays his guitar — firing dialogue in rapid bursts, stretching out the lessons in the story like the turnarounds in a song, and falling into potent silences, which somehow manage to be even more expressive than the words.
Tintoretto botched the connection between head and body (look at the left shoulder), but somehow this only makes the picture more expressive.
And somehow, music pours forth — precisely coordinated and emotionally expressive — in response to this mysterious podium dance.
On Tuesday he sounded extravagantly comfortable with the mopey grandeur of his songs, and with the expressive potential of his thin but somehow appealing voice.
But somehow the effort translates into this talented performer holding back a little too much, losing the expressive verve that firing on all pistons as a comic seems to give her.
Somehow she didn't burn out like many other former child stars, but has continued to develop, playing full-toned, expressive violin - a throwback to the great violinists of the 20th century such as David Oistrakh (search for him on YouTube).
