Sentences with phrase «stammer as»

The Devil Wears Prada star suffered with a bad stammer as a schoolgirl but she managed to overcome the condition by taking up performing.

Firth's emerging worry lines and crow's feet are as much to account for his easy win as his affected stammer as the emotionally crippled King Bertie, and the presence of a couple of actors whose youth and charisma make Oscar feel all funny in his special area only underline Firth's win.

(He also doesn't stammer as much with them.)

He doesn't stammer as much he used to, and he seems on top of all the facts.

Not exact matches

As a senior executive for several institutional fund managers, Stammers was the portfolio manager for a $ 1 billion enhanced real estate fund, a $ 1.2 billion private timber fund, and several pension fund separate accounts.

Stammers has authored over 100 articles on various financial and investment topics for such investment periodicals as Forbes and Investopedia.

«The Christian saints throughout the centuries attested to this as they stammered to explain what happened in prayer for them.

I stutter and I stammer and I see that it is all no use No one seems to care as I explain of all of the abuse My heart is so hard it's been transformed into a heart of stone I sit here in tears in the dark feeling lost I'm all alone

This explains why a man who is acknowledged as brilliant stammers like a high school student who didn't read last night's homework assignment, no matter how simple the question.

Hickson documented his assertion with specific cases: Complete cures were claimed as to pain, rheumatism, ear discharge, goiter, severe headaches, and blood poisoning (p. 118); blindness, paralysis, deafness, possession by evil spirits, asthma, stammering, and curvature of the spine (p. 128); palsy, dumbness, and mental deficiency (p. 151); deformed feet and legs made almost entirely normal (p. 152); «the healing of sin - sick souls» and «the healing of the body» (p. 168); partial paralysis, paralysis, infantile paralysis, rheumatoid arthritis, neuritis, St. Vitus's dance, epilepsy, and mental disorders (pp. 182 - 183).»

Then, just as they start stuttering and stammering through some half - @ $ $ attempt to pretend they understand their own bss - ackward behavior, ask them why anyone who believes in SELF - RELIANCE and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps would worship anyone or anything... AT ALL.

As Karl Barth said, we can't fathom the Second Advent of Jesus Christ, and we stammer when we try to speak of it.

So it would seem, according to Steve Stammers in the Mirror, that the club management are hoping to push Wenger into signing a new contract as early as March, so as to make it easier to negotiate with Ozil and Sanchez about their own extensions.

It's already clear Mindy's interview isn't going to go well as an all - male panel stammers the words «single mom» at her and asks if she's able to keep her emotions in check when making tough decisions.

Richard Stammers makes sure that the visual FX are not for FX sake as the threshold of believability is well maintained in the various textures of the render.

He flaps and screeches, annoyingly at first, but soon settles into stammering cuteness as he chants along with his favorite hip - hop numbers and says funny things about sex.

Once on the ground, Burnett's plight — obviously based on real - life Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's 1995 ordeal (behind enemy lines, natch)-- consists mostly of a lot of fleeing, gimmick shots, and a few awkward radio conversations with crusty Admiral Leslie Reigart (an embarrassed and stammering Hackman, career firsts for him as far as I can tell) who gains or loses a star on his collar every other scene.

On the plus side, the film is gifted with a smart and appealing central performance from David Tennant, who trades in a very nice line of ticks, stammers and hesitations as he intones Laing's crackpot theories.

MacDowell is sublime as Ann Mullany in Sex, Lies, And Videotape, right from the opening scene, in which she blushes and stammers and can't keep from laughing when Ann's therapist asks her whether she masturbates.

Michael Palin, seldom seen in the comedy arena these days, is brilliant as stammering creature - comforter Ken.

This was the first parody to caricature the actors as well as their roles, portraying a Montgomery Clift who stutters and stammers through his part, taking five word balloons to deliver a single line.

This time, it's not a case of simply overcoming a stammer but of the husband living life as a woman.

A cutely flustered Dustin Hoffman manages to stammer out his famous line about how Anne Bancroft is trying to seduce him in The Graduate, but that's as articulate as these guys get.

Domhnall Gleeson, son of Brendan and best known as one of the Weasley brothers in the «Harry Potter» movies, plays a typical uptight British romantic leading man, stammering adorably through his misadventures with women.

This doesn't extend to the thankless roles everyone else has to play; chief among the offenders is Breaking Bad's Dean Norris in a broad middle - act appearance, stammering through his dialogue as the white supremacist son of one of Zev's suspects.

Unprepared, the future king, also known as Bertie, carries the additional weight of a stammer.

The film establishes her as a hard - driving, fiercely committed professional using the usual shorthand, but the way she melts into a stammering, smitten, girlish mess in Hemsworth's presence is all her own.

In Saturday Night Live sketches and early movies like Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore, Sandler certainly has something, but part of what's compelling about him as a comic presence is a kind of goofy, vamping sheepishness about being the center of attention — coupled with a secret desire to hold that attention, hence the stammer - to - roar dynamic of the old «Denise Show» bit on SNL or the righteously ill temper of Happy Gilmore.

Golshifteh Farahani, star of Asghar Farhadi's About Elly, again proves to be one of world cinema's rising stars, playing the woman who grows more confident as she reveals more of her secrets to her husband, gets advice from her unconventional aunt, deals with marauders and becomes involved with a stammering young soldier.

As for being an author: Margaret's screenplay is world - class literature, an impressively of - its - moment bildungsroman that finds poetry in hiccups and stammers.

The attempts at a bumbling slapstick duo are there: one scene has Gosling evoking the twitchy stammering of Lou Costello, for instance, while another shows Crowe engage in that passé device known as a spit take.

Prince George (Colin Firth), known as «Bertie» to loved ones, has been afflicted by a debilitating stammer since his childhood.

«I couldn't talk as a kid because I stammered all the time, so I would just watch.

Not an actor, Boyle stammers and stumbles through the proceedings, as does his comrade in arms, the real life Doc Rock, and it's all just sort of a mess.

On Jan. 25, Colin Firth will nab a nomination for his impeccable performance as the stammering King George VI in «The King's Speech.»

While Colin Firth won an Oscar for portraying the monarch as a man flabbergasted by his own stammer, Mendelsohn's performance underplays the speech impediment; in the way he handles his unfiltered cigarettes, he reveals more character than Oldman does in two hours of gesticulating with cigars.

These range from a delay in speaking to a severe stammer, or could be related to other disabilities such as autism or cerebral palsy.

Support for teachers working with children who stammer developed as part of the DCSF - funded Stammering Information Programme.

The church was considered a non-starter due to his stammer, and the civil service was rejected as being no longer the career of a gentleman.

But when you are presented with a share repurchase, such as the case of Netflix, what you can do is consider whether you still believe in the company, said Stammers.

Abused and manipulated to the point it can not be conceived even as an imperfect tool for communication, language is characterized by collapses, stammers, fragmentations, collages, ellipses, mixed idioms or unknown tropes.

- we're often left as a stammering, reticent mess.

The National Center for Health Statistics reports that a child of unwed or divorced parents who lives only with her or his mother is 375 % more likely to need professional treatment for emotional or behavioral problems.117 The child is also more likely to suffer from frequent headaches118 and / or bed - wetting, 119 develop a stammer or speech defect, 120 suffer from anxiety or depression, 121 and be diagnosed as hyperactive.122

I complimented them on their concern for the public's interests, however, all I got is a stammer, long silent pauses, meaningless words of explanation but no substance when I suggested that other big interest groups serving the public such as banks, oil companies, trust companies, insurance companies and the like have certainly not captured their attention as much as CREA.