Sentences with phrase «kind of character whose»

She created and perfected a certain kind of character whose necessity in the pop culture canon seemed obvious the moment Plaza filled it.

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Gerald B. Lefcourt, whose clients have included a former Bronx Democratic leader, Stanley M. Friedman, and another Democrat who was speaker, Mel Miller, said character evidence «opens the door to all kinds of decisions politicians routinely engage in.»

Mr. Carrey is the kind of performer whose shtick reliably trumps psychological sense, and the film's blithe incoherence with respect to its main character is one of its virtues.

Kudos to Channing Tatum for the kind of self - effacing star turn you wouldn't expect from an actor whose character is both eponymous and «magic»; cheers to Jada Pinkett Smith (as the troupe's hype - woman) and Andie MacDowell (as a wealthy society client whose chaste amusement ripens into something else) for stealing their scenes with the evident pleasure of consummate thieves.

The only weak link is Mel Rodriguez's sexually ambiguous Patsy De La Serda, whose character is so annoying (even if that's kind of the point) that the show becomes infinitely less entertaining whenever he appears on screen.

Sarah Silverman, as Naomi Watts» friend Sheila from the diner, has proven herself to be a real treasure in her dramatic roles bringing heart and sass to what would otherwise be a throwaway character whose main purpose is to be the kind of emotional ballast to Susan that sometimes only other adult can be.

Ben Stiller is the kind of actor whose default expression is around 5 on the face pain scale, and that tenuous middle ground between hurt and happiness is the bittersweet spot in which writer - director Mike White's masterfully handled seriocomic character study «Brad's Status» operates.

The smart element of this character is that he is a man out of time and place — another helpful description offered by the narration (provided by Rex Linn, whose voice is exactly the kind we'd anticipate to talk about the Old West).

The former indicted Gerwig as part of a nouveau - boho class of Brooklyn artists who blended the slacker archetype of the early»90s with a kind of scarf - wearing artistic pretension; the latter was a term invented as a critique of movies that created female characters whose dual purpose was to beguile the male hero and then send them on their way a changed - for - the - better person, all without asking for even basic personhood of her own.

Nonetheless, great work by Blunt, whose character is kind of reminiscent from an alignment standpoint of Tommy Lee Jones» character in NCFOM.

Fans of Fingersmith and The Dress Lodger will love Accidents of Providence, absorbing historical fiction featuring Rachel Lockyer, a character wronged by her time and the kind of woman forgotten by history, whose love affair leads to her trial for murder.

This is a different kind of fantasy with a flawed hero whose character develops through the story.

It leaves the character himself kind of an empty shell whose personality is largely determined by each individual player.

There's quite a bit of wiggle room in these rules, depending on whose character you're trying to prove, what kind of notice your provide, and what other justifications you might be able offer for introducing this evidence.