Sentences with phrase «affability as»

Best known for his comic affability as an actor on The Office, he revealed surprising directing chops with his David Foster Wallace adaptation Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (2009) and the well - honed family dramedy The Hollars (2016).

Seth Rogen impactfully uses to his natural charm and affability as Steve Wozniak to drive his ultimate feelings of hurt and betrayal, hopefully changing perceptions about his acting capability in the process.

Not exact matches

Inconvenient facts, such as the affability of an Opus Dei source, or the theological orthodoxy of the Holy Father, are dismissed.

Brooklyn's Joe Lentol is often mentioned for this role in a caretaker capacity, given his seniority and general affability, as is Herman (Denny) Farrell, a longtime representative of Harlem who chairs the chamber's Ways & Mean Committee.

Much more comfortable as the perpetually cheery lifeguard in last summer's Baywatch, the actor just can't hide his natural affability and, even if the movie's multiple script writers had provided him with smarter lines, he couldn't deliver barbed wit to save George's life.

This was something like a miracle: Haneke's gracious affability aside, his has always been, openly and decisively (he's quite literally said as much) an oppositional cinema — often abrasive (his one noble failure, 1997's Funny Games, and its shot - for - shot English - language remake from 2008, being the prime specimens), always painstakingly conscientious and morally committed to disturb (all of his films from The Seventh Continent through The White Ribbon) art films that mean to engage and provoke the audience, not please or reassure in a way that could ever be mistaken for award - grubbing.

It helps too that Danny Trejo plays the cartel's representative in northern California, as he brings to bear his well known combination of affability and menace.

A year later, he's still around, his ostensible affability giving way to malign intent, all smooth smiles as his confrontational manner cracks Catherine's psyche open a few notches further.

That's certainly true of his relationship with Sestero, who Dave Franco plays here as an absolute beginner who's handsome and charming and nice but all too aware that it takes much more than looks, charm and affability to make it in show - business.

Adding much - needed affability is fine - boned Tom Hiddleston as Dr. Robert Laing, new to the building and caught off - guard by his sexually voracious upstairs neighbor, Charlotte (Sienna Miller).

There are plenty of sight gags, and the usual mirth and mayhem, although they are mild in humor value, as the Ice Age series has run mostly on charm and affability, rather than on catchy zingers and genuine wit.

There are some predictable moments, such as Dan's date with an ugly duckling who has turned into a beautiful swan, his daughter's first big drive, and a few other examples, but Dan in Real Life always seems to know just the right ways to overcome inherent story clichés with surprising grace and affability.

The heritability estimate of affability (defined as willingness of dog to approach humans) was 0.38 in German shepherds and 0.03 in Labrador retrievers.