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Adjective
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Despite Schumer’s strong promise as a potential film personality, the dearth of comedy in theatrical releases has meant her talent mostly has been showcased on cable and streaming services.—
Tom Brueggemann,
IndieWire,
10 Feb. 2025 -
The deals were negotiated on behalf of Angel Studios by Tom Molter and Michael Lavey and include the distribution and promotion of Angel’s entire upcoming theatrical slate.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
10 Feb. 2025
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That said, when obscene moments — like Justin Timberlake exposing Janet Jackson’s nipple in 2004 — and political messaging — like Beyoncé honoring the Black Panther Party in 2016 — have occurred on the halftime show, NFL viewers and the league itself have responded in histrionic ways.—
Kyndall Cunningham,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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Even though there's no question that anthropogenic climate change has played a major role in the current run-up of the global mean sea level, some of the most histrionic predictions about pending inundations have mercifully remained just that.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Her over-the-top cockney accent speaking in melodramatic dialogue drives much of the comedy in her performance, which ultimately wears thin over the course of the film’s brief runtime.—
Vikram Murthi,
IndieWire,
25 Jan. 2025
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There’s a lot of melodramatic potential in this material — particularly one late-breaking narrative development that has felled many talented artists in the past.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
25 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Every actor’s Hamlet is theirs and theirs alone, and Olivier’s is big and hammy and searing and often quite devastating.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
11 Mar. 2024
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What that translates to, though, is a lot of intentionally hammy line deliveries and overaffected actions.—
Vikram Murthi,
IndieWire,
25 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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This rivalry wrote another dramatic chapter Saturday night.—
Pierre LeBrun,
The Athletic,
16 Feb. 2025
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In the midst of these dramatic events, Jesse Love emerged victorious.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
16 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Ferrell just isn’t right for this part: The role is too stagy, too wordy for him, and his style of comedy is just too modern and deconstructionist to handle the Borscht Belt punning of Mel Brooks.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2025
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Here was elegance without exaggeration, tension and beauty without stagy excess.—
James Shapiro,
The New York Review of Books,
3 Jan. 2025
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“Actorly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/actorly. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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