actressy

I could tell by the quality of her alarm, which was actressy and overdone.

There are also a lot of actressy lines.

"Outrageous Fortune" also has the two leads' actressy aspects to keep it going.

When playing a genteel lady, as she does here, she becomes very actressy.

It registers in her most florid, actressy gestures, which are always appropriate here.

Any sense of reality is undermined by the shouting matches, which come across as actressy tantrums.

Very actressy - flinging plates, storming out of other people's dinner parties.

Not one of these is among Oscar's favorite modes of actressy self-expression.

This show, largely confined to her work from the 1930's and 40's, includes cleverly arranged location images along with some actressy photographs.

"The reason she works so well on stage and in this movie is that there is nothing actressy about her," said Mr. Bergman.

And like Presley in most of his films, Eminem is given an actressy flirt of a love interest.

The star is Diana Rigg, who gives a full-throttle, actressy performance in the title role.

Natasha scolds Marianna for resulting too actressy when interacting with her male partner, thus losing a model's attitude.

"Her every act and every gesture - and every class - was a performance," he said, "but she wasn't actressy.

Julia has a flamboyant, actressy manner, while Amelia has grown up to be exaggeratedly prim and spinsterish.

In such free and easy company, Sarah Fleming's rather actressy manner seems out of sorts and she fails to play a blind girl convincingly.

'Listen, daughter,' she wrote, 'don't do this actressy thing.

Ms. Boyd is breathy enough without being too actressy, which is often a fatal affectation for Lauras.

What isn't by design is the mass of neurotic actressy mannerisms, which function like layer upon layer of wax buildup.

Even as she scales up the actressy histrionics in her customary high style, Ms. Seldes makes it clear that this is a universal question.

To cry like that, that's an actressy thing, and I hate actresses who do that - and realizing that just made me cry more.

The hand had the warmth of personal feeling, whereas the theatrical sigh with which she said her last words was nothing but an actressy trick from a bad radio play.

'And now,' said Mrs Forrester suddenly shutting up their umbrella with a definitive snap, 'now she's in some sort of actressy business.'

Without actressy emoting, Stone convincingly establishes Cindy as "wild" - pronounced with a seductively elongated l, as in lusty and lethal.

There are things one can point out and praise: her moodiness and dowdiness in the early scenes; her desperate display of actressy charms to win Kurt to her side.