Sentences with word «byplay»

The breezy byplay between Doris Day and Rock Hudson combined with brighter than life production design and fabulous costumes, shifts the film from potentially offensive to unavoidably charming.

But the compression of Hudson's more abstract recent pieces and their alert, ever - shifting byplay of found and fabricated forms make the association to Chamberlain seem pertinent now.

Starting with some verbal byplay about getting shot through the eyeball - fun, eh?

Compare that to the continuous byplay that takes place among families who share the same dwelling.

So, the press (and pollsters, too) are probably pleased that at least the Paladino vs. Cuomo matchup for governor will provide some interesting byplay.

In «The Facts of Life,» a seemingly innocent British youth (Jack Watling) is targeted for a shakedown by a beautiful adventuress (Mai Zetterling), while Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne perform their usual brilliant byplay.

How to be a Gentleman has some sharp writing, good byplay between the stars and a fair number of laughs.

A high point of post-Network media commentary, James L. Brooks's comedy has all the neurotic byplay of a Woody Allen movie, with an added edge of prophetic insight into the coarsening character of TV news.

This collection mostly revisits the younger Hope, before he hit the road with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour and slid into a more cynical byplay.

- Publishers Weekly «The amusing byplay between the main characters moves the story along.

Yes, it probably is that trivial and ephemeral a political byplay.

The persistence of this pattern over three chief justiceships — the third Chief Justice a woman — suggests that there is more to this than the casual byplay of idiosyncratic personalities; something that may be structural and enduring, although I have identified other considerations that suggest that there may be factors at play other than gender alone.

While a fair share of movies still attract attention for their verbal byplay, some of the best new works do so despite — or because — of no talking at all.

The byplay and joking blame for the tardiness aside, Cuomo and Schumer, two of the state's most prominent Democrats, teamed up on Monday to push back against a proposal to cap or eliminate the deduction of state and local taxes.

The film's success ultimately depends on the byplay between Sheen and Langella, and they're more than up to the task.

Their byplay gets mired by a subplot involving Marty (Colin Farrell), a boozy Irish screenwriter stuck in Hollywood and blocked on his new script.

It should have worked, and it almost does, but Black buries his characters in a sputtering, chaotic story, seeming to realize only sporadically that we aren't watching this film for the plot and the stunts... but for the byplay between the two main characters.

Gervais underplays the boorishness and the reflexive humor that charms Leoni's gawky but smart professional, and their byplay gives the unlikely relationship a ghost of a chance of working.

Seriously, he's like Rasputin here), but for the byplay between the two main characters.

Fascinated with the byplay of magic and technology, Nathan is drawn to science fantasy in both his reading and writing.

I am uncomfortable with the byplay.