Word Finder - actors

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A person who performs, plays a part in a theatrical play or film.

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One who acts; a doer.

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One who takes part in a situation.

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An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.

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One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.

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(policy debate) One who enacts a certain policy action.

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The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).

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(grammar) The most agent-like argument of a clause, e.g. 'the torpedo' in "The torpedo sank the boat" and "The torpedo fired".

Modern lives of the principal actors in the Revolution are numerous.

He saw only the Present, like fractured scenes of a movie where the actors continually changed their lines and settings.

He's very compassionate to all the actors on the set.

When it was played in New York by Mr Arnold Daly's company in 1905 the actors were prosecuted.

He's well supported by some of Hollywood's best character actors, old (Robert Duvall) and new (Maria Bello ).

Language Some games specifically disallow players to use any verbal communication between actors - touchline coaching is specifically ruled out in many games.

We first describe the model of this exchange dyad and actors ' decision making with respect to behavior in a particular dyad.

Actors wanted who can make a farce out of the police.

I have a real, real growing fondness for David and his relationship to actors.

There is a " Basic Training " featurette which has behind-the-scenes footage of the training the actors went through to look like special forces.

The illusion of intimacy also embraces the suggestion of sexual frisson between the leading actors.

Most of the actors are fairly generic, but in the central role Foster has a terrific screen presence.

We love to allow actors to appear in something different from their familiar guise.

They are objects of desire and exchange, actors in subsistence, ceremonial and market economies and sites of deep projective identification.

More generally however, there is growing recognition of the need to involve a multiplicity of actors in the development process.

Instead the actors become part of a real crew and the invented mythology partly takes shape in the real world.

Two actors who successfully bring the entire population of a typically northern pub to life play all fourteen characters.

All you can do is laugh and there are some cracking one-liners, delivered by actors who don't understand comic timing.

This is the spirit in which On Actors and Acting is written, and it is deeply pleasurable.

In every role Dwight earned the praises of the critics who voted him one of the ten best actors currently on the stage.

All the main events from the movie happen as expected, and the actors who play the three protagonists also reprise their roles here.

The actors seem purpose-built for this sort of dross.

Actors, directors, producers, all have a heat quotient based on how much attention their little flame can bring to a film.

The behemoth has recruited some out of work actors to pretend to be Iraqis for combat readiness exercises.

Raymond also gets increasingly rebellious under Desmond's bossiness, especially when he learns that actors at this other National Theater actually get paid.

The main extra is a short series of fond reminiscences from the actors and director Randal Kleiser, actually filmed for the 20th anniversary.

The actors do a commendable job with what they're given, but the delivery on occasion is fairly rigid.

After we performed the routine for him, the director asked me to read a few lines with the other actors.

By contrast, the female actors seem to get short shrift, with few good lines to rise up to.

Actors will act out scenes from a crime followed by a workshop where kids can super sleuth to find out whodunit?

Probably the most well known superstition involves William Shakespeare's Macbeth, which is often called " the Scottish play " by actors.

He created a perfect baby... Actors move quietly to form a Nativity tableau.

The comparative advantage of the Mexican telenovela over Philippine television drama is the markedly mestizo features of its actors and actresses.

Our professional & very talented troupe of actors will add excitement to any event.

Mingle with actors in period costume as they demonstrate weaponry and talk about their lives.

The stage was now prepared, and all the actors who were destined to accomplish the ruin of Italy trod it with their armies.

It is the exposition of a relation governed by artificial and arbitrary rules, to which the principal actors in the drama must perforce conform.

The common policeman, the insignificant scribe in a public office, and even the actors in the "imperial" theatres, were protected against public censure as effectually as the government itself; for the whole administration was considered as one and indivisible, and an attack on the humblest representative of the imperial authority was looked on as an indirect attack on the fountain from which that authority flowed.

Some sections of the latter, especially those on the connexion between music and architecture, the scale of harmonic proportions, and the Greek use of bronze vases to reverberate and strengthen the actors' voices in the theatre, are now almost wholly unintelligible.

Demosthenes had dreamed the night before that he and Archias were competing for a prize as tragic actors; the house applauded Demosthenes; but his chorus was shabbily equipped, and Archias gained the prize.

They strut about on the stage of the play like they were very famous actors.

Raymond also gets increasingly rebellious under Desmond 's bossiness, especially when he learns that actors at this other National Theater actually get paid.

The result is that the film is batted between the two actors, each re-creating the story in their own image.

Rehearsal footage is shown as well as the many flub of lines among other things by the actors.

The actors do a commendable job with what they 're given, but the delivery on occasion is fairly rigid.

Inevitably, there is a certain sense of freedom for the actors in being able to roam around such a large space.

Some of the actors were mad with jealousy, and did not scruple to tell him that.

When you watch it you can see that the actors are n't as relaxed, they 're so self-conscious in front of the camera.

Phil was sensible enough to invest his earnings for the rainy day which inevitably comes to all actors.

Filming mainly takes place at weekends with both actors and crew receiving advance notice of the weekly shooting schedule.