hamminess

They make one grateful, in fact, for their exaggerated hamminess.

His songs also have a broad streak of humor and sometimes outright hamminess.

His hamminess would have been insufferable if not for that agile touch.

He has at times pushed this to the edge of hamminess, and at least once gone over it into something altogether glorious.

Sometimes each plays with old-fashioned melodramatic hamminess; sometimes not.

Theres a beautiful hamminess about his work: he's scratching an itch and getting a huge kick out of it."

Not the least of these is the monarch himself, played with perfumed hamminess by Rupert Everett.

Babs Hooyman, as the medium, gives a robust performance that creates fun out of the essential hamminess of the part.

Asked to behave like pigs in heat, these impromptu performers sank to the occasion with smarmy, lascivious hamminess.

Johnathon Pape's stage direction brought out a lot of silly hamminess from several of the men, but the physical production was admirable in its economy.

So, for that matter, does the village idiot, Noah, played with good-natured hamminess by Adrien Brody.

A full sense of her stage manner must await further performances, too, since much hamminess was visited on her here by Mr. Pilavachi's direction.

In a city that craves audience, Ms. Smith is convinced she has found something more theatrically promising here than the sheer hamminess of the resident cast.

"Hope I die before I get old," chirped the so-called choir, nine apparent Broadway hopefuls in various states of hamminess.

In Chicago she was played with coarse hamminess; Ms. Kirkby put a balm on a sore place with her feeling, sincere portrayal.

Both are pictured as solid, efficient, fair, no-nonsense commanders, very different from the preening and sometimes peevish MacArthur, and with none of his hamminess.

To all of them he brought a firm vocal line and in the last, a silent-movie portrayal that approached hamminess and wound up looking more like grandeur.

This actor is clearly in love with the part of a man in love with his part in life, but he doesn't just coast on enthusiastic hamminess.

Mr. Fitzpatrick's Jack, alternately jocular and peevish, is played with a willful hamminess that takes the idea of the banality of evil to unnecessary extremes.

He meets the promise of that shirt much more than halfway in a performance that is at times poignant but more often a glorious burst of antic hamminess.

Mr. Roth's flamboyant insouciance dovetails neatly into Mr. Heston's majestic hamminess - a pair of alpha male animals vying for the light.

It was an intelligent hamminess that was so consumed with calling attention to intent that audiences were relieved of the necessity of reacting to the performances on their own.

Even Mr. Dennehy, as the blustering, posturing old actor James Tyrone, played down the hamminess in favor of a touching solicitude for Ms. Redgrave's Mary.

They are also (with the exception of Liliane Montevecchi, who overdoes her patented french-fried shtick) winningly restrained, balancing vaudevillian hamminess with a sober awareness of time passed.