Sentences with phrase «dramatic role»

Some types of play therapy which Schaeffer recommends for use with adults include dramatic role play and sand play.

Once you land your interview, how you respond after the fact can play a dramatic role in whether you are considered for the job.

How you present your current employment situation can play a dramatic role in your appeal to prospective employers.

Just when you're applying for a job, first impression plays more dramatic role: on how you can build relationships and hold yourself depend employer's interest to you.

This leads to mass publicity, public sympathy, and often release without charge (Frances Olsen, «Legal Responses to Mass Protest Action: The Dramatic Role of Solidarity in Obtaining Plea Bargains» (2003) 41 Osgoode Hall LJ 363).

I suspect it might play some role, but not a dramatic role.

His palette is generally reduced to black, white, and grey, with occasional passages of color taking on a highly dramatic role.

Hebelieves that technology, particularly in the form of the Internet, «willplay a dramatic role not only in spawning a new generation of activistsbut also in helping the slice of America that traditionally sits out the electionsto feel more connected to the decisions being made on its behalf.»

I really enjoyed Morris from America, which represents a bit of a departure for you, being a dramatic role.

The ensemble project that first put them on the map, in fact, was also the first that proved Carell — then the funnyman from «The 40 - Year - Old Virgin» and «The Office» — could handle a dramatic role.

It'll be interesting to see her in a strictly dramatic role, as Trainwreck and her telly work have proved she can do much more than deliver jokes.

After two years of such work she landed a significant dramatic role as a young Charlize Theron in North Country which got people's attention.

It's great to see Jason Bateman get to be darker and meaner than ever before in what's basically a straight dramatic role.

This week, Vince Vaughn gets the dramatic role of his career as the highlighted title among Blu - Ray / DVD releases.

The man is best known as a writer / director of comedy (Defending your Life, Lost in America, The Muse) does a serious left turn in a highly dramatic role.

The supporting actress category is usually all about honoring accomplished character actresses who have broken through in a serious dramatic role.

I love an actor who's willing to make an art out of our desires to see him almost fail — which is also what's so useful in seeing him punch slightly above his weight class in a heavy dramatic role, as in Born on the Fourth of July, or in a role where he has to fly off the rails with manic emotionalism, as in Jerry Maguire.

Elsewhere, pop - culture whiplash is to be expected as audiences take in «Foxcatcher,» featuring Steve Carell in a shape - shifting dramatic role as a psychotic millionaire, or «Birdman,» in which gonzo Mexican director Alejandro Iñárritu gets onetime Batman Michael Keaton to bite the role that made him a star.

G.B.H. (Acorn) A savage satire of Thatcher - era party politics and a devastating drama of power and corruption and simple moral courage, this brilliant British mini-series is dryly funny, constantly surprisingly and thoroughly engrossing, and features such a heartbreaking turn by Michael Palin in a rare dramatic role.

He rounded out the 90's with the title role in George of the Jungle, a serious dramatic role in the superb film Gods and Monsters about the director James Whale and a flirtation he has with the Fraser character, and another supremely underrated comedy, Blast from the Past, about a man who emerges from a bomb shelter after 35 years and falls in love with Alicia Silverstone.

Her dramatic role in «The Danish Girl» was just one part in a big year for Alicia Vikander.

This new incarnation of the classic crime novels stars Rowan Atkinson, in his first dramatic role, as Chief Inspector Maigret as he looks to catch a serial killer stalking women in Montmarte.

& «Tom Goes to Mayor», taking on his first dramatic role.

Before he has a chance to get started on those two new Pee Wee Herman movies he's been promising for years now (like those will ever happen), Paul Reubens will be featured in Todd Solondz» new movie in a dramatic role.

Stiller's performance is still considerably better than Sandler's, in say, Spanglish, but the dramatic role still doesn't quite work for him.

After appearing in a more serious dramatic role in Wes Anderson's «Rushmore,» Bill has been experiencing a film renaissance, with tons of critical praise for his work in films like «The Royal Tenenbaums» and «Lost in Translation,» which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.

Struggling to cope with his erratic temper, novelty - toilet - plunger salesman Barry Egan (Adam Sandler, demonstrating remarkable versatility in his first dramatic role) spends his days collecting frequent - flyer - mile coupons and dodging the insults of his seven sisters.

A more unexpected choice was Forte, of «Saturday Night Live» fame, for the straight dramatic role of the son, David Grant.

SNUB: Will Smith This blockbuster movie star hasn't taken on a heavy dramatic role since 2008's «Seven Pounds,» and he did it convincingly this year in NFL medical drama «Concussion» as the Nigerian - born doctor who took on one of the biggest sports institutions in America to raise awareness for the brain damage players risk with every tackle.

Doing his turn in a more dramatic role rather than an action role, he's great, in all honesty.

Let's hope the next time Silverman lands a meaty dramatic role — and she surely will — it will be attached to a stronger movie with a screenplay that adds more context and gives more texture to its characters.

11:00 pm — TCM — The Clock This was Judy Garland's first real purely dramatic role, directed by her then - husband Vincente Minnelli in 1945.

Also, I do think Chris Pratt can play a serious dramatic role, but in a movie like this, where it is very self - serious most of the time, and doesn't give his character much to do, let Chris Pratt make jokes, and release some of the forced tension.

It's only a matter of time before Brand follows in the footsteps of some of his comedian predecessors and takes on a dramatic role.

Of course, I don't think Samantha Morton could act badly if you told her to, but this has to have been one of the more challenging roles she's ever taken on... not just anyone can turn a whimpering, confused (psychic) kidnapping victim in a sci - fi picture into a serious and introspective dramatic role.

The Buzz: I suppose I should rave here about how excited I am to see Swank in another meaty dramatic role, but after Amelia, Black Dhalia and even Million Dollar Baby (yes, I'm one of the rare few who didn't like it) I can't say that I'm too terribly excited.

Aniston's filmography runs the gamut from broad comedy to romantic comedy, yet ironically her comic chops serve her remarkably well in this breakout dramatic role.

Are you excited about a Kevin Smith hockey movie, and can Seann William Scott pull off a more dramatic role?

The film stars Betty Grable (singer, dancer and pin - up legend in her first dramatic role) and Carole Landis as sisters Jill and Vicky Lynn, who quickly shed their homespun sensibilities as they fend for themselves in New York City.

Still, the story did seem interesting, and seeing Saturday Night Live alum and general goofball Will Forte in a dramatic role was an intriguing prospect to say the least.

Written by Bob Nelson (the first time Payne wasn't directly involved in writing a film he's directed), the comedic drama stars Bruce Dern (who won best actor at Cannes and is a shoo - in for his first Oscar nomination in over 35 years) and Will Forte (of «Saturday Night Live» fame, pulling off a largely dramatic role) as a father and son road tripping it from Montana to Nebraska to claim the alleged prize money the mentally deteriorating father thinks he's won.

The former proved that she had chops far deeper than her famously «bubbly» image, and her abilities were then further tested a year later, again opposite Shahrukh Khan, in an even more intensely dramatic role in Yash Chopra's Indo - Pak «love legend» Veer - Zaara; and she has since continued to challenge herself — and triumph — in more ambitious projects such as Deepa Mehta's harrowing Canada - set domestic abuse tale Heaven on Earth (which should reach U.S. screens sometime this year).

Rogen once again showed that he could play the dramatic role as the betrayed Steve Wozniak, who simply wants Jobs to credit the Apple II Team.

It's very good, Pryor is impressive actually taking on a dramatic role.

But first, we discuss how she broke into the business despite having no encouragement from her parents at the time; why she loves to go on auditions even if the prospect of getting work is hopeless; her time in The Groundlings and how it led to having the part of Rita in the movie smash Bridesmaids (written for her by fellow Groundlings Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo); as well as taking on a real - life dramatic role in the upcoming Felt, the story of infamous Watergate «Deep Throat» Mark Felt — played, she says sensationally, by Liam Neeson.

Critics are calling it a virtuoso, powerhouse performance and a career highlight for Keaton, who both embraces and commands a dramatic role which allows him to showcase a range of emotions.

Bennett Miller's latest sports dramatization Foxcatcher is one such example — about Olympic gold - medal - winning wrestler brothers Mark (Channing Tatum) and David Schultz (Mark Ruffalo), and their tragic relationship with benefactor John du Pont (Steve Carell, in a rare dramatic role and prosthetic bird - like nose).

Or team legacy Ray Jennings (Houston Texans running back Arian Foster), who'd love to follow in the footsteps of his father / manager (Terry Crews, solid in a rare dramatic role)?

«I was intimidated coming into the process,» Forte said of his first dramatic role after years of being known as a comedian.

(For contrast, six years elapsed between «Meyerowitz» and Sandler's last dramatic role.)