Sentences with phrase «plummy as»

Here, Charles Loughton is the very essence of plummy as he repeatedly asks the painfully deaf Miss McKenzie about her distinct and obvious lack of a hearing aid, a lack that poses a bit of a problem as she claims to have overheard a key piece of information.

His vowels aren't as plummy as David Cameron's.

Not exact matches

It is a plummy - red that on a warmer dark skin tone will register as bright and festive.

After finding it and swatching, the color wasn't very true and looked more like a dark plummy brown rather than a warm orangey brown as in the tube.

In truth, it's not a loud performance for much of the first two - thirds, even as Day - Lewis turns over Anderson's florid dialogue in his mouth with a plummy, John Huston - influenced accent.

Rosamund Pike has a small, chic role as an unexpectedly sympathetic mother, while Miranda Richardson is all red hair and spark as Barbara Castle, the British secretary for employment under then - Prime Minister Harold Wilson (a very plummy John Sessions).

Flynn plays up his plummy and posh screen accent to this «exquisite creature,» all oily charm as he nicknames Beverly «Woodsie,» because she is like a woodland nymph.

Undisguised by a perfectly plummy accent, Lake Bell's signature dorky charm lends distinction to this overnight tale of two lovelorn misfits struck by Cupid on a sabotaged blind date — with Simon Pegg sportingly playing second fiddle as her accidental suitor.

Martyr used to have a reputation as a difficult person to interview, renowned for a prickly side that his playful wit and plummy voice couldn't quite disguise.