We adopt their mannerisms, and little quirks, and while doing so, we may lose our own, and lose our sense of identity. |
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The actress has some kittenish mannerisms which sometimes distract but she drifts convincingly enough through the sticky New York nights. |
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Erik's mannerisms were very much like one who was raised under both the disciplines of a soldier, but also the restraints of a gentleman. |
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Pedestrians do not behave robotically and display various walking styles and mannerisms. |
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My friends and colleagues seem to delight in my Australian mannerisms and question me constantly about customs at home. |
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As time went on, they became even more familiar with the mannerisms and habits of one another. |
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The actors inherit these mannerisms and make the characters their own in the most delightful of ways. |
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The writing has an oratorical eloquence marked in places by mannerisms probably deriving from oral delivery. |
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Not Campbell, who employs all the quirks and mannerisms that have made him one of the most beloved cult actors of all time. |
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Countless phrases and mannerisms have made their way from the show into my speech. |
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Manners and mannerisms that had earlier stuck with them now undergo drastic changes. |
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Yet Chinese body language, mannerisms and accents are about as similar to Japanese as Australians are to the Scots. |
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Bob Martin invests his characters with wonderful tics, gestures and mannerisms and makes his knife-sharp comedic timing feel effortless. |
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But his funny faces and odd mannerisms come across as forced and unnatural. |
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He looks the age and although his character still appears fit, his mannerisms have just a slight suggestion of slowness to them. |
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She was now familiar with his mannerisms such as the way he drawled in that deep voice, the cadence of his speech. |
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The mannerisms of the male troupers were too deliberately camp to capture the nuances of the Kern stories they were supposed to be illustrating. |
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Of course, to gain that aura, the chefs have also had to brush up on their social skills, mannerisms, deportment and general knowledge. |
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His strange mannerisms and goofy asides are amusing, and he has a comedian's sensibility for wanting to keep the audience at home interested. |
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Hoffman duplicates Capote's unusual voice and mannerisms with remarkable skill, but the performance is much more than mimicry. |
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While he was large for a boy his age he was unable to mask his feminine voice nor his effete mannerisms and was discharged for lack of dignity. |
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Longer hair, gender-neutral clothing, and feminine mannerisms would cause it to happen more and more often. |
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With his ghastly haircut and appalling dress sense, and his strange mannerisms, he is, nevertheless a giant of a man. |
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His normal exuberance and flashiness returned to his tone and mannerisms with this statement. |
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Seryna's distaste, while initially borne from Visbec's flounce and flirtatious mannerisms, had grown with an infatuation for Naoise. |
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The CEOs of underperforming companies do tend to develop all kinds of foibles, tics, and unpleasant mannerisms. |
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And when she takes on blokey mannerisms, the result isn't an ugly, boorish ocker, but a smart woman celebrating Australia by parodying it. |
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His character is a white youth of supreme stupidity who hilariously and ineptly adopts the mannerisms of black street talk. |
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Alma's sketches are described as spare accurate lines, perfectly capturing personalities through mannerisms and idiosyncrasies. |
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This is a movie with a distinct and startling cinematic language, but with uncomfortably coercive mannerisms. |
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While Caan does a fairly credible job with the accent, voice inflection, and mannerisms, I had a difficult time with his being cast in this role. |
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Their mannerisms are alike, their voices indistinguishable, their gaits identical. |
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I don't want their looks, I don't want their dramatic mannerisms or anything like that. |
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While Kaufman only met the real Orlean at the end of the shoot, method actor Cage spent time studying his subject's mannerisms. |
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It would be another excuse for Sir Marcus to announce all of his eldest daughter's perfect traits and mannerisms. |
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All individuals have different traits and characteristics and differ from one another in mannerisms and mental abilities. |
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Despite their quirks and mannerisms, when the kids arrive at camp, they feel accepted. |
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He combined his Gothic physical persona with a set of gauchely theatrical mannerisms, a non-stop performance of poetical sensitivity. |
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The actor, cannily aware of the trap set by this modern dress version, resists translating the mannerisms into those of just another gay quean. |
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Sometimes you become very aware that you're watching an actor affecting crazy mannerisms in a crazy movie. |
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He has a jolly, ready laugh and mannerisms like an absentminded professor. |
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For example, the type of clothing we wear, our hair styles, mannerisms, the way we speak, the roles we take in interactions, etc. |
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The mannerisms of Iranian cinema are all present and correct. |
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His gestures, his mannerisms and voice all seem too large, too forced to give him any chance of not being the standard straitjacketed worshipper of protocol. |
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Here, Keaton's la-di-da flibbertigibbet dissolved all of her neurotic mannerisms and simply stood still, gently and lovingly warbling what became the film's essence. |
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The atmosphere at work deteriorated until all her white colleagues were imitating the employee's accent and mannerisms. |
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Elaborate metaphors, affected mannerisms, and foppish dress led to his being shouted down. |
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Most of their affectionate banter borders on the painful humiliating putdown, with Jamie loving to imitate Paul's manic mannerisms behind his back. |
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The veteran German actor imbues the character of Schultz with a quiet appeal and pathos that is evident in Schultz's tiny smiles and gentlemanly mannerisms. |
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There's been a big change in his body mannerisms and his golf swing. |
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Babies and toddlers are especially sensitive to your moods and are quick to pick up any tension in your voice, face, touch or mannerisms. |
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He self-consciously tries to ape the mannerisms of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. |
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Yet there was an apparent effortlessness to his performances, and a lack of actorly mannerisms. |
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This involved studying the mannerisms of the cartoon version of Daphne. |
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The guy who does the voice of the French Colombo is a legend in his own right, taking what Peter Falk says and adding his own mannerisms and characteristics. |
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Twenty per cent say that criticism of dress or mannerisms has the greatest impact. |
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Enjoyment will depend on how you get on with the voice and its hooting cannonade of mannerisms. |
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Wardrobe, mannerisms, and intonation are fair game, and Chu certainly has his detractors there. |
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It was eerie how he had the same voice and mannerisms as Leigh. |
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Even so, he was constantly teased and harassed for his appearance and mannerisms, even ostracized. |
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The implication here is that they adopt the dress and mannerisms of men because they have failed as women. |
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Here, instead of verbalizing her emotions, Winslet oozes dread via her broken-down visage, and slight mannerisms. |
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From the set to the characters' odd and affecting mannerisms, the whole enterprise suggested the kind of apparent simplicity and artlessness that only springs from hard work. |
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The white practice of copying African American mannerisms became so widespread that actors performing in blackface eventually squeezed black theater out of existence. |
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Their Long Sunday Afternoon duet epitomises what they mean to each other, while the upper crust Eddie is the perfect foil for Mickey's side-splitting mannerisms and send ups. |
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All the idiosyncrasies for which he was known within his homeland, the hesitant mannerisms and trademark waddle, do not look quite so loveable in the world at large. |
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The Scorpions brothers look alike, have the same mannerisms and play the same instrument. |
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There may be confusion of personal pronouns, echolalia, or other mannerisms of use and diction. |
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His gestures, his mannerisms and voice all seem too large, too forced to give Biggs any chance of not being the standard straitjacketed worshipper of protocol. |
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Notice a person's tone of voice, mannerisms, manner of speaking, accent and habits. |
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This is the opposite of the wishy-washy habit of copying the actions and mannerisms of other people. |
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No-one stood above the others in the acting stakes because the entire cast was top-drawer and took on the animal's mannerisms with surprising effectiveness and grace. |
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Their feline sounds and nimble mannerisms left me breathless. |
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The writers try to explain his mannerisms by revealing that tonto has an intense guilt complex. |
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They saw us with our floppy fringes and effete mannerisms and went mental. |
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There is nothing wrong in imitating mannerisms found in every human being. |
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The term mechanics refers to the physical mannerisms of the speaker and his or her voice. |
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He will not make a fuss about the lesser technicalities nor the mannerisms affected by others, but look toward the desired end. |
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It contains many antitheses, questions, exclamations, tropes, metaphors, and other mannerisms of the Silver Age. |
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Hardy developed a vast array of eccentricities: flowery speech and mannerisms, explosive double takes, tie-twiddling, and frequent looks into the camera to elicit audience sympathy. |
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The author skillfully weaves a fictional account, based on the life of Ludwig van Beethoven, into a sometimes humorous story, capturing the great composer's mannerisms and eccentricities. |
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The trolls also seem to have been lifted straight out of East London, with their cockney mannerisms and mentions to 'get your laughing gear around this', which is a head-scratching and bizarre tone. |
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With subtle inflections and a poignant jumble of mannerisms and flinches, Ms Mulligan especially manages to make compelling what is essentially an unremarkable little-girl-lost character. |
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Increasingly interested in perfecting Twain's mannerisms, he embarked on several years of study of Twain's character and habits and eventually memorized hours of Twain's material. |
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They just cannot stand each other: Rhea is disgusted by Karan's flirtatious mannerisms and Karan is frustrated because of Rhea's overt seriousness. |
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Falling back on old mannerisms was not going to do the job. |
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And it is easy to see how they might confuse him with the parts he plays: all those amusing tics and mannerisms you see on film are his, as is that hesitant voice and delivery. |
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We believe that highly trained behaviour detection officers who question passengers and observe their mannerisms throughout the screening process would add a strong layer of detection. |
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They were not instructed in the best way to communicate directions to passengers or speech mannerisms to avoid in an emergency, and were not required to practice these skills. |
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Lille, major city of the Nord-Pas de Calais region, is admired and recognized for its architectural gems, at the junction between baroque beauty and Flemish mannerisms. |
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What about the physical gestures and mannerisms of speech we repress deep within ourselves just because they're copied from her, she who is watching us from the other side of the mirror? |
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While Gould's left-handedness was neuro-biologically determined, his performance mannerisms were more a function of his psychological development. |
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We will impart soft skills such as communication, interpersonal skills, mannerisms etc by training children based on our area's of expertise and practical relevance. |
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Wherever Glenn went in the world, his concerts met with great success, although critics were often less than generous concerning his unusual mannerisms while playing. |
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I decided to stay simple, and throughout the making of the film we tried to make it as clean and pure as possible without using mannerisms in the sentimental journey. |
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Bryant is not Jordan, yet from his baseline fallaways to the confident, serene way in which he carries himself, from his oncourt mannerisms to his offcourt persona, there are striking reminders. |
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The ratings were surprisingly high, and McCarthy's appearance and mannerisms seen in the intimate closeups made possible by television turned most viewers against the senator. |
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To play Sally, Ms. Leigh has smoothed out her spiky mannerisms, softened her scowl and put on a blowzy faded-blonde glamour that suggests the young Tuesday Weld blended with the sulkier Bette Davis. |
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Without jumping into impression territory, she quietly inhabits the mannerisms, laugh, and dorkiness of a young Diane Keaton. |
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The clueless, accessorial blonde girlfriend has been a staple of comedies for years, though Heigl, with her infuriating Lisa Kudrow Acting School mannerisms, brings a new level of vacuity to the genre. |
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Most of us have noticed the canine that won't stop humping our visitors, and we've additionally noticed extremely well disciplined canines that are never out of their well trained mannerisms. |
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He mastered the local accent and mannerisms and credits that as being his first convincing performance. |
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He tried to mirror Elvis's life. He copied his fashion and his mannerisms, and he even went to live in Graceland. |
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Some individuals had felt that Welsh had embraced America too much, and had undertaken too many 'Yankee' mannerisms, forgetting his home country. |
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When the boys came out, they had the mannerisms of clucking chickens. |
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He adopted Persian customs of clothing and otherwise encouraged his men to go native by adopting local wives and learning their mannerisms. |
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Some of Gary's mannerisms reminded her of her ex, the guy she caught sex-texting with the blonde next door. |
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When you attended opening night of Xanadu on Broadway, how did it feel watching Kerry Butler mimic your accent and mannerisms? |
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Intuit says Block's ad copies the physical appearance, dress and mannerisms of the characters in the TurboTax ad, as well as the set, staging and pace of the advertisement. |
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The poem will be sensitive thanks to its emotional complexity and dividedness rather than through its adherence to period style mannerisms and pc posturings. |
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Pacino is full of quirks and mannerisms, but this wellmade tear-jerker has a fine cast and some lovely Lennon songs that help give it a real class. |
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His mannerisms and Galloway accent struck the other boys as rustic. |
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Not only had this trial taken place in Scotland, the witches involved were recorded to have also conducted rituals with the same mannerisms as the three witches. |
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While Dylan doubtlessly copped a song or two or some vocal mannerisms from, say, folkie Dave Van Ronk, Van Ronk has had decades to prove himself Dylan's equal and failed. |
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