Word: drawled
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...fine line between brash confidence and paralyzing fear-and by making this confusion seem genuine, Damon succeeds in winning the audience's sympathy. What impresses me most about Damon, though, is his linguistic versatility. After all, not many actors can flip between a Bostonian accent and a Southern drawl with such apparent ease...
...drops into Nicholson's lizardy drawl...
...describe his performance as Bozz, a rebellious Texan recruit who helps his boot-camp buddies in Fort Polk, La., avoid Vietnam combat. A native of Dublin, Ireland, who dropped out of high school to study acting, Farrell had no trouble trading his Irish accent for Bozz's Texas drawl, but he's finding it hard to keep his briny tongue in check now that the press is paying attention. "The first word I said in the [Toronto] press conference was 'f___,'" recalls Farrell. He can also be found on the cover of Interview magazine in a photograph that he finds...
Prejean's hour-plus speech was also peppered with numerous jokes delivered in her warm Louisiana drawl...
...Though Virginian by birth, Wolfe has made Manhattan his home for decades, and while he still uses his drawl for dramatic effect, it usually lies dormant. On the one hand, Wolfe casts an ironic eye on modern culture and preaches a return to more brutal instincts. On the other, he lives the life of a foppish Manhattan novelist. Like Pappy Mason, Wolfe says his soul has been wrankled by challenges to his manliness. Wolfe's example: once in New York, during a snowstorm, another man took a cab from him and he had to wait a long time for another...