Word: aplomb
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...result of her gallimaufry of genes: Chinese, Welsh, German, Persian, a heady hereditary cocktail. She looks and speaks Chinese, but when she palavers in English, out pours E.M. Forster starchy Brit-speak. She does "yah," she does "-ish" and she'll use the word 'prat' or 'ponce' with intuitive aplomb. Not to mention the bodywork: Mok's put together like an E-type Jaguar, curvaceous, sinuous, pantheresque. She's got legs Lara Croft wouldn't mind and a brain Angelina Jolie wouldn't recognize...
...blades and calls them "a bunch of f____ing d___heads." They stare gormlessly at the Chinese beauty who stands before them delivering a beautifully intonated insult?in English. It's a scene that defines Mok, soign? with plenty of street. The girl plays both, with aplomb...
...subtle performance in the extreme; so subtle in fact that he’s largely left staring deadpan while the action clumsily revolves around him. And while Robbie Coltrane, as Abberline’s sidekick, provides a competent foil for Depp’s malaise, quoting Shakespeare with pithy aplomb, Heather Graham does nothing to alter this reviewer’s opinion that she shouldn’t be allowed to act ever again. Ever...
...actors give it their best shot though, although “best” varies in quality depending on the individual. Owen Wilson and Stiller both turn in excellent performances, and Will Ferrell and Jerry Stiller play their Bad Guy roles with professionalism and aplomb. On the other hand, the female leads don’t come off as well. Milla Jovovich, she of the “actress/model” category so mocked in the film, seems to have been cast for her looks, and the fact that Stiller married Christine Taylor shortly after production wrapped may explain...
Zucker handles all this with a nice, unforced aplomb. And come to think of it, with a nice eye for smaller-scaled idiocies as well. There is, for example, Kathy Bates selling squirrels by the roadside and exacting a terrible revenge on non-buyers. Then there's the Barbie Museum. That would be a roadside attraction devoted not to the immortal doll but to the vicious Nazi Klaus Barbie. Not to worry, though, the befuddled Jewish family (with Jon Lovitz as its addled patriarch and Kathy Najimy his bemused wife) makes its escape in style--in Hitler's onetime touring...