Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Danielle Kwatinetz, as Karen, confronts a much more complex role. She manages to sustain unruffled simplicity and grace even after several unsavory revelations strip her of her soft-spoken naivete. Her naturalistic acting admirably reflects Karen's more thoughtful character...
What topics are deep enough to sustain a group of friends spending the eighth consecutive hour in a Honda Accord travelling at high speed down the Atlantic coast? The weather? Please. Baseball? Overdone. Classes? Yuck...
...very important for the graduates to be on board, because they sustain the club financially," he said...
...promising, if not extraordinary, story line, and might have lent itself to lots of exciting intrigue and seduction a la "Dangerous Liaisons." Martin is trying hard to make a respectable and literary film, but the result is too plodding to sustain any dramatic tension. The denouement is obvious from the first scenes, when Newland sees the Countess at the opera. The Countess reminds Newland that as a child he had tried to kiss her behind a door: more kisses to come, one understands. Then at the post-opera ball Newland hurries to announce his engagement...
...think a President needs a little time to set forth the big framework of things to the people, which I was able to do on Feb. 17 ((in the Joint Address to Congress)), with good results I think, but it's hard. I wasn't able to sustain it so well...