Sentences with phrase «plays scenes like»

To a much lesser extent, Hilary Swank is stiff as an FBI agent investigating the heist; she plays her scenes like she picked up all the rigidity that Craig shed for his performance.

He is a master conductor who plays scenes like symphonies of feelings, continuing long past the narrative point has been established to express the emotional intensity of the characters and situations, and to add moments of pure grace to the mighty drama.

He's red - faced, terrified, anguished, enraged - he plays every scene like it's the last season of «Breaking Bad.»

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At times feeling like a stage play, «The Post» is fueled by the performances of its incredible cast — including Tracy Letts, Carrie Coon, Bradley Whitford, Bruce Greenwood, Alison Brie, and David Cross — but often the scenes drag on too long.

Startups to watch: Anchored by internet 1.0 titans like image - sharing service Photobucket, the scene got its start with a high concentration of work / play - oriented software developers working at facilities such as the University of Colorado and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

There's nothing like standing up in front of an expectant audience when you have no script and no idea what kind of scene you're about to play to put the fear of making a pitch or cold call into perspective.

It is like a play in which the scene and the general outline of the story is fixed by the author, but certain minor details are left for the actors to improvise.

18) The fact that there is a later punk - driven attempt to democratize rock fame (and not in the fatuous way that Andy Warhol's «15 - minutes of fame» comment suggested) or that pop / disco artists like Michael Jackson and Madonna will pick up on Bowie's fame - playing and image - emphatic example, in Madonna's case overtly subordinating the music to the prerogatives of notoriety, do not alter what ALMOST FAMOUS is showing us, that rock can be thought of as a social phenomenon / scene that one might belong to («you're too sweet for rock and roll» is said not by a musician to a musician, but by a groupie to a rock writer), that is as fame - focused as it is music - focused.

As Jonas Barish points out in his sharply observed monograph The Anti «Theatrical Prejudice (1981), terms such as theatrical, operatic, melodramatic, and stagey tend to be hostile or belittling, as do phrases like play «acting, putting on an act, making a scene, making a spectacle of oneself, playing to the gallery, and so forth.

When I got home from work that night, I found the following scene: husband fast asleep on the couch, Netflix playing softly on the TV, and the bag, torn into like a raccoon had gotten to it.

We all know Sanchez is WC at wing but average at CF, so playing Sanchez at CF is like selling a WC player and buying an average player, it does not make scenes!

The Brazilian - born striker is yet to transform is brilliant goalscoring form for Atletico Madrid and Chelsea to the international scene since making debut for La Roja in March 2014 and there has been suggestions in the Spanish media that he doesn't suit the style of football the 2010 World Cup winners like to play.

We'd like to top our division and earn promotion, create the foundations for a table tennis scene in Manchester, engage more women to play at a competitive level, to reach at least the last 16 at Nationals and to take a medal at internationals!»

Yes, meals are included, as are all organized activities (ziplines and ropes for those 10 - years - old and up, plus climbing wall, fishing, nature hikes, and water play for everyone) and non-organized options such as horseshoes, archery, catching fireflies at dusk (it was like a scene from a movie), and simply relaxing on the deck with a coffee or lemonade and taking in the beautiful views.

Now, while my husband has played out these scenes and others like them time and again, it is obviously not only him performing these acts of kindness throughout the world on long, lonely stretches of roads and brightly lit grocery stores.

If your child has a hard time coming up with their own pretend play, try setting up a simple scene like this that will spark their interest!

It feels like a scene from a classic movie about toys that are sadly waiting in a box to be played with by their kid.

Movies like Flashdance and Black Swan show how fitness plays into dance, but they don't have the nominal «workout» scene that makes inspirational fitness movies work.

The cab window acted like a movie screen, and as the movie played, one of the frames stood still... it froze on a scene with people smiling and admiring the holiday lights and decorations.

Here are 5 reasons that we are actually twins separated at birth: Our initials are the same — TAS (I was born Taylor Anne Smith and she was born Taylor Alison Swift), we both are obsessed with cats and own 2, we both have blonde hair and cut it short IN THE SAME MONTH (UNPLANNED BUT AMAZING), we both play guitar (fun fact — I am holding a guitar in my senior pictures because I wanted to be like T. Swift), and we both love crime scene tv shows and Grey's Anatomy.

A watered down ANOES entry that plays more like a teen pregnancy episode, The Dream Child doesn't know what it wants to be and falters from the moment after its opening scene.

The bar scene is a bit played out, and people don't like to waste their time.

I like emo / goth / punk girls who love the music scene and enjoy sitting around and listening to someone play guitar for hours on end.

i am retired I like walking playing golf I like to cook I like to cuddle and watch a movie I am not into the bar scene anything else you can ask when we meet

25 male born and raised in miami... im family oriented... not into the club scene i just like having a good time with my family and friends doing w / e its going on at the time... i play softball... im into sports..

im a 27 year old mature young man, i like to work out and go to the gym, i play sports and i also do music.i am a social drinker, i like to party but mostly with people i know and its usually the house scene, i take good care of myself and my body, anything else you would like to know do nt be afraid...

Trying to re-inact a porno movie: Unless you're actually role playing and trying to re-enact a scene from a porno that you both like (if that's the case, carry on!)

It's the first matchmaking app to hook deeply into our culture: creating a flirt scene between athletes at the Olympics, importing randiness to Coachella (traffic on Tinder spikes during big festivals) and spawning knockoffs like a Jewish dating app (JSwipe) and the parody video «Kinder» for kids» play dates.

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Playing It Safe in Online Dating Because the online dating scene, like everything else in the Internet, is a borderless world, it's hard therefore for people to segregate those whom they should avoid from those whom they would love to meet, date and maybe even have a relationship with.

Love the Sir / Boi sub / dom scene, like role play and verbal.

Wigram gives the film its best scenes, probably because Stoppard had never written a character like this and was, therefore, more willing to play with writing choices he had long before exhausted on other characters.

In this movie, though, when he goes airborne like a barnstormer, the scene's self - conscious sense of the absurd suggests he's trying to let his inner Harold Lloyd out to play.

No City in this game makes if feel like a giant suburb, story mode is so boring with terrible voice actors as well as awful cut scenes I did not even realize I was playing story mode until half way threw.

In the scene as written and played, Griffith behaves like a typical tailor as he lays out the possible materials he is using, what is he going to do with them, etc..

Glazer puts all this into scenes that play out like a classier version of a science - fiction / horror film — one of those cheesy ones about a monster in human form.

Most tracks have a commercial sheen that makes the songs sound like they were custom - made to be played in the background of pivotal scenes on The O.C.

Always good with actors, Hanson brings out a beaten - down charm in Bana that works nicely against the hotheaded authority the actor shows in the gambling scenes, while Duvall is, like the veteran card shark he plays, a master of subtle gestures.

Played from its opening whimsical guitar score as a sweet story about friends, the dynamic of a real - life, Apatow - brand bromance is prominent, and makes for a few funny bonding moments, like when Tommy has Greg loudly rehearse a scene in a restaurant as a ridiculous gesture of fearlessness.

The fairy tale scenes are a bright contrast to the drab neutrals of Afghanistan's cobblestone streets and, though dazzling, contain a more rigid effect, like watching a play performed with jointed paper dolls.

The only real thing I liked in this film was the scene with the three little pigs being bad mercenaries, but the funny thing about it is that Cheech marin plays one pig and Chong plays another, and I found that pretty funny actually, but the rest of the film is just crap, and Is undoubtedly the worst film I've seen this year.

The trouble for Tonya is that most people aren't interested in learning about it until someone exhumes it in the form of a riotously entertaining movie, slaps some very obvious classic rock cues on the soundtrack in order to make the scenes of abuse more appealing, and lets a sex symbol like Margot Robbie dirty herself down to play the lead.

An Amazing Fps game with Amazing graphics... Also the most violent game I've ever played plus with the realistic graphics it makes it gruesome... The aliens (Stroggs) like to experiment on humans, people are shown with parts of their face torn off, intestines hanging out, there is a scene where you can see your characters legs being sliced off by a bloody saw while strapped down, limbless people are attached to machines, some strange experiments like that, Do nt play this game if you are a little kid or some idiot thats going to copy what you see in this game...

A docudrama that in its early scenes feels like a documentary — the co-directors have a nonfiction background, and the actors are actual carnival performers — the film plays out like a small - scale fairy tale.

I like Lawrence's performance best when she actually gets to do some spy stuff, like in a centerpiece scene that feels flown in from a different movie, in which Dominika cultivates a boozy senatorial staffer played by Mary - Louise Parker (making the absolute most of a little).

Wiig has been the funniest person on the planet for a while, ruling SNL when she was on it, stealing scenes in movies like «Knocked Up,» and now, in this script she co-wrote with Annie Mumolo, who plays her airplane seatmate in the film, she's front - and - center in all of her awkward glory.

But with Mahoney's pedestrian, shot - reverse - shot direction, these scenes play out like situational skits from an instructional video made for ESL students.

The film constantly plays with expectation like this; for both fans of the comic and the first film there is a lot of cleverness at play here and so many types of jokes stuffed into a single scene that repeat viewing will surely be required.

He plays the younger brother that just wants to be like his older brothers and make them proud, which leads to some very gruesome and violent scenes.

Weinstein is never desperate for us to like Menashe and cleverly plays with his backstory in one brave, surprising scene about his late wife.