Sentence examples for understated scenery from inspiring English sources
The rest of the sparkle came from the dancers (and not, thankfully, from Patricia Zipprodt's fabric-rich costumes and David Mitchell's often understated scenery, both of which managed to be relatively restrained on the bedazzled scale).
The rational, dignified secretary of defense, Caspar W. Weinberger, is played by the always superb Colm Feore ("Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould") with an understated realism that stands out among much scenery-chewing.
He was able to swing between scenery-chewing lunacy and the more understated tenderness of his later interactions with Belle, not to mention the icy intimidation of Mr. Gold as he remorselessly beat Mr. French for the things Rumple believed Belle's father guilty of doing back in Fairytale Land.
Musicals have license to make the protagonist's colorful inner world explode in song and scenery, but they risk losing what's understated and, with it, the comedy of contrast.
It gave Cary something to do -- he's officemates with Alicia once again and an ally for Clarke (still a wonderfully understated Nathan Lane), he brought Jackie back into the fold and he gave Alan Cumming some scenery to chew up.
The 50-year-old Australian import/export may have been born in New Zealand, but that scenery-chewing lug of an actor – so assured, with a performance understated in ways the film's key changes and tonal shifts are not – is the Man from Snowy River reincarnate, a moral warrior deprived of family and loaded up with true-blue grit.
Some understated lovemaking.
