Sentences with phrase «nervous tics»

No, for all its police procedures and trial scenes, Fracture is really a battle of wills between two arrogant rivals, and most of the pleasure of the film comes from watching Anthony Hopkins playing elaborate mind games and seeing Ryan Gosling unload all kinds of nervous tics as his character comes close to bowing to the pressure.

Besieged with nervous tics, uncontrollable urges and erratic twitches, he copes as best he can by living in an ultra-sanitized house and popping illegally acquired prescription pills.

To this end, they are looking at other disturbances that are often associated with attention deficit or hyperactivity; approximately 80 percent of ADHD children suffer from at least one other challenge, such as nervous tics, antisocial behavior, anxiety, or reading and spelling problems.

Florentine's style plays well with precise physical performers like Scott Adkins, Michael Jai White, and Jean - Claude Van Damme; aside from a few nervous tics, Slater isn't much of a physical presence — he acts with his voice and face, not with his body — and Portnoy, who spends a good chunk of movie staring off blankly into space, doesn't exactly pick up the slack.

Conversely, uptight and unflinching Aubrey (Anna Camp), the newly minted leader of Barden's all - female a cappella group The Bellas, is desperate to put together a winning group to defend their title at nationals after a disastrous showing the year prior (it involves a particularly disgusting nervous tic of Aubrey's, a painfully unfunny gag that reveals itself multiple times throughout the film, and reeks of the script's Bridesmaids plot - point checklist).

If the interviewer has to sit through a video with several minutes of rambling dialogue, accompanied by nervous tics, and the sound of traffic or air conditioning in the background to be able to hear your skill set, you may not get to make your case before you lose the interviewer's interest.

A small percentage of people with ADHD have a neurological disorder involving various nervous tics and mannerisms.

Besieged with nervous tics, uncontrollable urges and erratic twitches, Roy copes as best he can by living in an ultra-sanitized house and popping illegally acquired prescription pills.

He carries with him a tool - bag, a collection of nervous tics, and a humiliating stutter picked up from the trenches of Passchendeale.

Perhaps he has developed compulsory habits, such as nervous tics?

She saysI have developed a nervous tic.

Occasionally, but it is usually more of a case where a player has to get used to the pace of a team or a league, or get the nervous tics out.

-- or 1 star — «This will give your child a nervous tic and years of emotional problems!!»)

Because they aren't under conscious control, they pop out unmodulated, when a preschooler socks her sister, has nightmares, or develops a nervous tic.

They react instantly, and with economies comprised primarily of millions of people's nervous tics, they are the most reliable place to check.

And your information is woefully incomplete: You can only guess which cards an opponent holds based on your analysis of body language, nervous tics, betting patterns, and so forth.

«If [something doesn't] fit right, you get into this nervous tic until it's fixed.»

Everyone expresses this state somewhat differently — a kick, an epithet, a nervous tic or an impassive face.

Dissatisfaction with traditional polygraphs has prompted the search for more sophisticated techniques to spot the supposed telltale signs of dishonesty — increased heart rate, sweating, nervous tics, averted gaze and so on.

Hirsch, his eyes darting wildly as he shuffles with a nervous tic, throws himself into the role of cartoon villain — but he's second fiddle to Plaza, whose typical eye - rolling antics sync with the ironic tone.

Denzel Washington slips on nerd glasses, an ill - fitting suit, and a whole lot of nervous tics to play the title character of this sophomore feature from Dan Gilroy, writer - director of Nightcrawler and younger brother of Tony «Michael Clayton» Gilroy.

Past and present traumas leave their mark — Loki's tense face is once in a while cut with a nervous tic.

Instead, Gyllenhaal turns in a performance that is method acting taken to the extreme, plagued by a litany of nervous tics and verbal stutters.

A secretive genius detective tracking down Light, he's played by Lakeith Stanfield as a bundle of eccentricities and nervous tics, a guy who hides behind a hoodie, wolfs down candy by the truckload, somersaults over furniture and has his assistants sing him songs at random.

The only hint of anxiety or trauma is the way she often pushes her hair from in front of her black eyes, perhaps a nervous tic.

They don't have all the nervous tics that come from the [established] publishers — they are more open to ideas.

If you're talking about global warming — which is 99.9 % likely to be happening, and due to human activity — there is a sort of nervous tic, that they have to have the 0.1 % attitude — that it's not happening, that it's all made up by corrupt scientists.

Nervous tics.

These nervous tics and repetitive mannerisms may include eye blinks, facial twitches, grimacing, clearing the throats frequently, snorting, sniffing, or barking out words.