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How to use actressy in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word actressy? Here are some examples.

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As she gets ready to portray a neurotic New Yorker, she displays all the usual actressy contradictions.
I would guess she wears a size 10, but looks hale and healthy rather than actressy and neurotic.
Graves is quietly incisive and commanding as the relatively humane Dr. Treves, but Burton is a trifle too actressy even for an actress portraying an actress.
Clarke plays her romantic view of Holly, which can come off as actressy self-love — or insecurity.
She was told that she would never work if she kept her natural speaking voice and so adopted the identikit RP actressy tones you hear from Smith and the like.
If one was interested, one saw Miss Lohan display a variety of emotions, in actressy high voltage.
As for as the acting, Binoche is magnificent, but can be roundly infuriating – always mercurially shifting the emotional gears, at times in an overtly actressy way.
The overfamiliar voice is harder to accept, but even her most actressy intonations may be taken for Mary's attempt to hide her secrets behind girlish affectation.
I had put Saffy to sleep and I know it sounds all actressy to say this, but I wasn't sure if I could climb back into her skin.
Jackson resists as best he can, but Moore walks a very perilous line that's constantly threatening to tumble into actressy melodrama.
It sounds a bit actressy but it was a very odd and emotional experience imagining what it's like to die.
Set in 1942 in a country vicarage, home to the hapless Rev Lionel Toop and his actressy wife Penelope, minor misunderstandings soon become social catastrophes.
Examples from Classical Literature
Mrs. Lynde said she was very pretty but kind of actressy looking, and must have been an awful lot younger than father.
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