Sentence examples for understated acting from inspiring English sources

Nicholson's understated acting in the melancholic comedy earned him a 12th Academy Award nomination.

Her understated acting seemed particularly natural in light of the more overwrought dramatics by recent heroines at the Met.

My friends and I were riveted by the Tudoresque atmosphere, understated acting, dim candlelight and stunning tableaux.

Mr. Anderson's understated acting style pays off here, and his onstage performances are the best part of this otherwise safe, mechanical portrait of a fascinating cultural figure.

The group's most recent project is "Two Cops," a six-episode Web series that emphasizes understated acting and narrative over the manic collage of its early work.

Although dismissed by some critics in his early years as a sleepy-eyed, well-built hunk who walked through his pictures, Mitchum impressed many with his charismatic screen presence and understated acting style.

Gagnidze's Iago understated evil, acting more like a small-time operator, while Cano's Emilia was, like Desdemona, the stronger force, further bringing out Verdi's feminist take on Shakespeare.

But it is easy enough to ignore this lapse in the face of such unassumingly intelligent screenwriting and so much understated, brilliant acting".

The drama of the story writes itself, and it would benefit from understated direction and acting that would allow the intricacies of the court case shine through.

Willem Dafoe is the gold standard for a certain kind of naturalistic acting: intelligent, understated, calmly centred, his face radiating a fierce compression of emotion and integrity.

The BBC stated that "Mukerji plays the character of a middle class girl with great conviction", and Udita Jhunjhunwala of Mid Day added, "Her expressions and acting are understated in a role that fits her like a glove".