Word: exploitatively
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...movie is the excellent quality of the acting on the part of all the principal performers. Gary Cooper, in the part of the father, is not an actor noted for the range of emotions which he can project, but this time he has found a part which can exploit his taciturn talents. He manages to suggest the battle going on in his character's soul, and a suggestion is really all the script requires. Dorothy McGuire, as the mother, must, on the other hand, show such divergent feelings as straight-laced devotion to duty and strong love for her family...
...canvassing, some workers participated in an opinion poll of Tenth District voters, to determine what issues Holtz might use to best advantage in his campaign there. The poll, prepared by Dr. Ithiel Pool, an MIT professor, is similar to the one used in California to permit Adlai Stevenson to exploit the most significant problems in his primary fight with Senator Estes Kefauver...
...What the demonstration underlined for Nehru, however. was the real challenge of India's thousands of high-school and university students. Frustrated, their future inhibited, by India's mounting unemployment, they dabble in politics for lack of other preoccupations, are easy prey for anyone who wants to exploit their eagerness to participate in a new India in which they have yet to find their place...
...Ellie, the local prostitute. The difference is that the movie's director, Vincente Minelli, seems intent to extract every bit of emotion, or--as the ads suggest--"sensitivity" from events that were only spoken of in the play. The apparent eagerness of both the writer and the director to exploit the scenes of misunderstanding do most to make the movie so uncomfortable...
Most of the actors are in their own way just as impressive as the grand spectacles. The part of Natasha seems almost to have been created solely to exploit the impressive talents of Audrey Hepburn. In the early scenes she captures perfectly the spirit of the young girl, and later also manages to show her growth into maturity. The script prevents Henry Fonda from indicating the paralled development within Pierre Bezuhov, and so he is forced to work with his character's huge and clumsy exterior. But Fonda too possesses a lot of talent, and he demonstrates just how much...