Sentences with phrase «reciting lines»

Hollywood actors know playing the part is more than reciting lines and choosing the right moment to let loose a tear, their wardrobe has to complement their performance.

The first one shows renown actor Andy Serkis reciting lines from Shakespeare's Macbeth, his performance translated to the fictional digital creature Osiris Black.

Again, the concept is scarier than the execution, because the actors either overplay their roles, seem bored with the material, or come across as reciting their lines from an off - screen prompter.

Cosmopolis needed a magnetic central performance to keep it all together; Pattinson regularly sounds like he's merely reciting the lines of a script and relying on nothing more than a steely gaze to get his point across.

People speak to each other like students perfunctorily reciting lines they were made to speak by a teacher.

However, Tatum still manages to underperform in the role, partially due to his dead - eyed delivery, reciting his lines without feeling or passion.

Soon enough, the performers are reciting lines and stepping fully into the roles that they played many years before.

However, Young's performance is ruinous, trying too hard impersonating Sharon Stone and Glenn Close, reciting her lines in a pseudo-seductive breathy voice.

Cosmopolis needed a magnetic central performance to keep it all together; Pattinson regularly sounds like he's merely reciting the lines of a script.

Her favorite activities include reading a new book, drinking copious amounts of coffee, and reciting lines from «Monty Python's Flying Circus.»

Juliet Stevenson does a commendable job with the accent (a Macedonian living and India), as well as portraying the humbleness of her character — it's not so easy reciting lines like «It's God's work, not mine» and coming off as entirely genuine.

The actors aren't all well cast (I counted only about three I'd consider to be above average for their respective roles — Acker as Beatrice, Fillion (Waitress, White Noise 2) in the supporting role of Dogberry - the only time the audience I viewed the film with laughed at anything in the film that came from actual dialogue, rather than the injected slapstick and actors occasionally comical facial expressions, came from Fillion's delivery - and British actor Paul Meston in the minuscule part of Friar Francis) The rest often appear as though they're reciting lines without any sense of meaning in the words they are saying, and when one of those happens to be the male romantic lead, that's one hell of a liability.

Greg's performance in class is so low - key that he doesn't even face the audience while reciting his lines.

They think they can fool God by holding a bible and reciting lines.

I wasn't implying that genuine forgiveness was avoidence, only that reciting a line as «forgivness» was too superficial.

I must have recited those lines to myself a million times.

(You are just reciting a line, aren't you Brigitte?)

And those who can recite it line for line are not the type of folks that appeal to me in any way really.

But when every other kid in the neighborhood can recite lines from the newest show, ours are going to want in.

In Birmingham, Coogan recited lines from The Mask of Anarchy by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Sure it's a little cheesy, but who else can recite lines from Clueless or He's Just Not That Into You along with you but your besties?

My family can (and often does) recite every line from Christmas Vacation... we even have our own set of moose cups!

A student of cinema since his early childhood, Desmond spent his days watching films over and over until he could recite every line.

One of my favourites from childhood I can not only sing every song but recite every line.

Meanwhile, behind the camera, the crew — fronted by a wickedly deadpan Seth Rogen — recite the lines in unison that Wiseau can't get out of his garbled mouth:

This means the youngster did not need to recite lines and had the freedom to be his natural youthful self.

These performers work well together and are supported by fantastic actors like Rob Riggle, who recites his lines with enough energy to make his stock character, a clueless gym teacher, feel fresh.

Full of lewd stories punctuated by profound comments on art and politics, he can elucidate the advantages of «teal» vs. «cobalt teal» paint, discuss the significance of Edward Bernays, and recite lines from Pasolini's Salò all within a 10 - minute time span.

Even if you recognize some of the original prose, they are poorly presented, especially by younger cast members who seem to be reciting them a line at a time.

As a cult film, however, The Room still plays once - a-year engagements before dedicated audiences, who recite its lines.

There's also Luke Wilson guest - starring as Sheriff Hartwell — a handsome, charming civil servant whom Scully is enamored with (while Mulder regards him as a buck - toothed hillbilly)-- and a hilarious scene where Mulder drowsily recites a line from Isaac Hayes» Shaft.

Idris Elba is sitting in a Beverly Hills Hotel on a Sunday morning recalling the time he saw A Few Good Men and thinking how lucky Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson were to recite lines like those.

The Rock fulfills the bare minimum requirements of his role, which is to be a believable physical presence in the many action scenes and recite his lines competently.

Opposite «Parent Trap» co-star Dennis Quaid as her character's father, the 10 - year - old Lohan recites her lines with such convincing naturalness, it's almost jarring when the two actors break character.

Toni Collette recites her lines adequately, though without much menace.

Williams whoops, Knoxville leers, Simpson, as (and wearing) Daisy Duke (s), recites her lines as though English were a language with which she is completely unfamiliar, and Burt Reynolds stumbles through the proceedings as though still groggy from a nap.

In one of my first years of high school teaching, I asked my students to memorize and recite some lines from «Macbeth,» which we were studying.

A dozen middle school students wiggle their limbs and recite lines at increasingly louder decibels to warm up their bodies and voices.

«My students usually grab a marker in their fists, hold it up high, and recite every line of the movie as it plays,» Fuglestad told Education World.

Nicholas Prosper, an eighth - grader, said that when he recited the line, «Not bad for a white girl» about the main character's dance moves, he learned about reverse racism.

The schools minister also again refused to acknowledge the profession was experiencing a teacher shortage, reciting the line that «there are more teachers in our profession today than at any other time».

I can still recite the lines as if I watched it yesterday.

In Rä di Martino's (1975, Italy) video Petite histoire des plateaux abandonnés (2012), two children recite lines from the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia in front of the abandoned backdrops of this and many other films that have been shot against the surrounding Moroccan terrain.

Not exact matches

My brothers and I sometimes spontaneously recite the opening lines of Kipling in unison when we remember my dad:

If someone found out their spouse was cheating, and in that first moment, without grief, despair or anger, simply recited that line and «forgave» them — you'd think they were faking it, didn't really love the cheating spouse anyways, or was a sociopath (or some combination thereof).

Reciting that line — because that's what's «supposed» to happen — doesn't mean the person has actually been forgiven by those they have wronged.

Have you ACTUALLY read the Bible or are you merely regurgitating a line «critics» have recited for the last 2000 years?

When I was in school I could recite the first ten lines of the Iliad in Greek.

«Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first - rate accent.

When are you going to stop reciting that tired line and acknowledge basic reality?