Sentences with phrase «on dramatic acting»

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There was the initial act of terror at the Boston marathon, the heroism of first - responders, the dramatic press conference in which the FBI released blurry images of two suspects, the ensuing manhunt, the police shootout — the list goes on.

«We acted in response to an outrageous proposal that was imminently pending review and threatened to impose dramatic and blatantly unconstitutional requirements on our church.

But she also loved the dramatic arts, and by the time of her first communion, she had already been signed by talent scouts, and appeared in commercials and on television, alongside acting legends such as David Niven, Richard Burton and Sir Lawrence Olivier.

According to that analysis, it has been characteristic of John Paul II's diplomacy that his dramatic acts of public witness to the importance of freedom» in Poland, before the United Nations, in Cuba, and so on» have stood in tension with the continuing, more traditional, diplomacy of the Vatican, even to the point of contradiction.

It's worth noting that some are speculating that Labeouf's conversion may have actually been more of a rather dramatic example of method acting than a true conversion but, regardless, many Christians chose to focus on his language instead of his heart.

Which is where I attended The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts - The School for Film and Television for 2 years, studying on camera acting.

Veteran Mark Crossley decided to get in on the act and give Sheffield Wednesday fans an earlier Christmas present when he scored a dramatic late equaliser for Sheffield Wednesday in a 3 - 3 draw with Southampton at Hillsborough in 2006.

I tried to come up with a strategy so that I wasn't purely acting on those dramatic instincts when he wielded his sharp new teeth again.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned President - elect Donald Trump on Wednesday of a «dramatic impact» on New Yorkers if Trump moves ahead with a repeal and replace of the Affordable Care Act.

«We discussed how the Affordable Care Act affects New York and the pitfalls of a repeal plan, which would be dramatic on the state of New York,» Cuomo told reporters after the hour - long meeting.

Governor Cuomo is taking dramatic action to fight the federal tax assault on New York caused by the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

The dramatic reform package — called the «Clean Up Albany Act of 2011» — creates an independent Joint Commission on Public Ethics with «robust enforcement powers» to investigate both the executive and legislative branches of government.

Specifically, Cuomo said repealing the Affordable Care Act would have a «dramatic» effect on the state and leave 3 million people without health insurance.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday asked the State Police to investigate vandalism of headstones in a small Jewish cemetery in Rochester, N.Y., citing a recent «dramatic increase in acts of hate and intolerance.»

The flyby also put Cassini on course for its dramatic last act, known as the Grand Finale.

Farrell moved into television with ease, appearing on virtually every major dramatic weekly series and ultimately winning an Emmy for her work on the two - part Ben Casey episode of 1963, «A Cardinal Act of Mercy.»

A regular on the short - lived CBS dramatic series «Hard Copy» (1987) that introduced her to husband Michael Murphy, she also acted with him in Robert Altman's critically - acclaimed HBO series «Tanner» 88» (1988).

Dissatisfied with a mere taste of the theatrical arts and eager to extend acting into a full - time passion, Eigenberg subsequently moved to New York and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, working odd jobs on the side (construction et al.) to put himself through school.Scattered roles followed, including a guest appearance on The Cosby Show and a bit part in the awful 1989 generation - gap comedy Rude Awakening (co-starring Cheech Marin and Eric Roberts), but Sex and the City (which Eigenberg auditioned for out of innumerable hopefuls) represented the actor's first huge break.

In looking at the kinds of projects Byrne has taken on since 2010, it's possible that her dramatic background and the ability to act «big» in a smaller way has helped her push the envelope in raunchier, more hilarious material.

For example, in «Before Sunrise» and «Before Sunset,» every conversation was made dramatic by our wondering if the two characters were going to fall in love, and admit it, and act on that.

The first half of the film, charting our heroine's domestic problems, are mostly just depressing, And the film's third act seems to have been stuck on just to give the story a dramatic conclusion.

The movie lacks the dramatic power and impact of Kazan's 1954 Oscar - winning drama, «On the Waterfront,» with which it shares some thematic similarities, but it is sincerely acted by all the cast.

November 3, 2017 • Garlin and Cardellini put their dramatic acting chops to the test with a quiz based on the iconic Sunset Boulevard line, «All right, Mr. DeMille.

The stakes are pretty low, but Sachs» film is so finely observed and delicately acted, even the smallest gestures take on dramatic interest.

Not only does it begin with an account of how bits of movie dialogue (from «Rio Bravo,» «His Girl Friday») have entered her life, and the lives of her friends and colleagues, but it then segues into a great quotation from Steve Roman on SCTV (playing Juan Cortez, the first Puerto Rican Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court in the dramatic television series, «There's Justice for Everybody»): «It's got good actors, and that spells good acting.»

Still, if it skimps on character depth and somewhat dawdles during its first two acts, in which a pair of taut centerpieces helps prop up dramatic filler (including a subplot involving Olivia Wilde's single mom), The Next Three Days refuses to puff up its action with message - movie sermonizing.

Janney pursued acting partially due to Newman's encouragement, going on to study drama at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

It felt like watching an old movie on a really battered, well - worn VHS tape and then watching the same movie's director's cut on Blu - ray on the biggest 3D television possible: the change in quality was dramatic in every way, from the video quality to the audio to the acting, writing, direction, special effects — everything.

Playing roles on opposite ends of the genre spectrum has provided Arturo Castro with keen insight into what makes both successful comedic and dramatic acting.

And this month, he's putting his Southern stoner act on hold in two leading roles: First up is Crown Heights, which won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award at Sundance and hits theaters on August 18th, which finds him playing Colin Warner, a Trinidadian immigrant unjustly accused of murder in 1980.

And on the television front, Bob Odenkirk won best actor in a dramatic series for Better Call Saul, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story won four times, including acting prizes for Sarah Paulson and Courtney B. Vance, and Atlanta «s Donald Glover, showing off the very authentic mustache he'll be wearing in the upcoming Han Solo film, won for best actor in a comedy series.

Just as the first dramatic act gains momentum, the breaks are firmly slammed on to an almost halt, as we enter act two.

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.

Gertrud renounces external eventfulness in order to cultivate internal or imaginative eventfulness» — and using the (constant - and - never - moving as a way to allow viewers to focus on acting and the body rather than on technical formalist tricks, in fact, the shots are the longest technically allowable before the invention of digital shooting) camera merely as a functional recording - device rather than as an originator of instant meaning and knowledge as in Hollywood, this film remains the best summation of the truism that a longwinded presentation of several actors merely speaking for ten - minutes - a-scene while the camera does not move and no artificial and manipulative «cinematic language» is involved, in other words, the dreaded «merely filmed non-cinematic literature and theatre,» not only has a much greater capacity to teach than any Hollywood mode of filmmaking but is more dramatic than any car chase.

While her reliance upon a bevy of catchy pop songs, not to mention Ludwig Göransson's (Central Intelligence) strong if over-utilized score, can sometimes inadvertently stifle the story's inherent dramatic rhythms, overall the director does a nice job, a mid-movie act of rebellion on Maddie's part introduced with a pleasantly relaxed gentility that's wonderful.

Though dysfunctional family dramas are not everyone's cup of tea, and the Westons are a more volatile clan than most who've graced the silver screen, August: Osage County emerges as a very thoughtful, insightful, and well - acted drama that manages to break from the staginess of the play to be quite a good dramatic film on its own.

Children's charity Barnardo's is calling on the government to act now to stop the decrease in funding of children's centres, following new calculations that reveal a dramatic budget decrease of over 35 per cent since 2010.

Riley: Possibly the most dramatic impact on inclusion efforts across the nation is the inclusion of students with disabilities in the assessment and accountability provisions of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act.

The Student Success Act's most dramatic components center on the bill's accountability provisions, which allow states to determine how they will judge and improve school performance with minimal interference or direction from the federal government.

Less than we were expecting, but the sensation of speed from behind a tiny fly - screen is likely to be dramatic enough, and as we're aware from the standard car, higher speeds only invite an extra battle with your neck muscles and a greater challenge for the brakes acting on the skinny front tyres.

Credit card reform arrives in the form of the Credit CARD Act — The most sweeping credit card changes ever are being imposed on credit card issuers, which in the course of complying, are making dramatic changes in consumers» credit card accounts — not all of them welcome... (See Credit card reform law goes in effect)

Credit card reform arrives in the form of the Credit CARD Act — The most sweeping credit card changes ever are being imposed on credit card issuers, which in the course of complying, are making dramatic changes in consumers» credit card accounts — not all of them welcome... (See Credit card reform law goes in effect)

What's weird is how the game depicts the way in which members of the audience are drawn toward the film; adult males correspond to the dark blue stars on an actor's card that represent his or her dramatic acting skills, while women are drawn in by the red stars that correspond to character acting, and children are lured by comedic acting displayed as green stars.

Looking to settle an old score, Satan has returned to bring about the apocalypse as an act of final revenge for his previous defeat, and Dracula must face him head on as the fight between good and evil comes to a dramatic end.

The new exhibition at Hauser & Wirth sheds light on Lozano's practice, a legacy shrouded in dramatic acts of rebuff.

Complacency, arrogance and diversionary political tactics are driving a bewildered public to exasperation point, especially when experts are telling us there is urgent need to act and we are suddenly observing the increasingly dramatic effects of climate change on a daily basis.

The Elder Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Act of 2017, signed by President Donald Trump in October, was passed by voice vote in the House and Senate, where dramatic statistics on elder fraud and abuse prompted overwhelming support for the legislation.

Any change in the social contract of a political community as dramatic as an act of secession from the established legal order must be based on the will of the people.

To provide organizations the latest rulings and insight, the Sixth Edition IP Primer provides information and commentary about recent IP issues, including: the Supreme Court «s dramatic influence surrounding injunctions in patent cases; the Federal Circuit «s decisions on calculating damages in the modern era; Congress «introduction of the America Invents Act of 2011, considered the most dramatic overhaul of the patent system since the Patent Act of 1952; and proper compliance to open source software licensing terms, an issue rapidly gaining importance.

The class action, which was filed in Quebec City and authorized on February 8, 2017 by the Quebec Court of Appeal, is intended to establish that Université Laval and its employees, as part of their teaching and research activities, infringed the patrimonial and moral rights recognized under the Copyright Act by reproducing copyrighted literary, dramatic and artistic works, making them available and communicating them to the public without permission from the copyright owners or their representatives, by failing to identify the creators of the work and by infringing the integrity of the work.