(n.) One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.
(n.) A theatrical performer; a stageplayer.
(n.) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.
(n.) One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hollywood legend has it that, at the first Academy awards in 1929, Rin Tin Tin the dog won most votes for best actor.
(2) The talent base in the UK – not just producers and actors but camera and sound – is unparalleled, so I think creativity will continue unabated.” Lee does recognise “massive” cultural differences between the US and UK.
(3) Three experiments in person perception were conducted to investigate the conditions under which naive observers label an actor as aggressive and to ascertain how this label affects the reactions of the observers to the actor.
(4) Along with a lengthy list of cameos, Girls actor Gaby Hoffmann and Party Down star Martin Starr appear as former Neptune High classmates new to the Veronica Mars universe.
(5) Notably, while the lead actors were all professionals, most of the cast members and musicians came from Providência itself.
(6) She says he wants his actors to be in a "second state", instinctive, holding nothing back.
(7) American Horror Story is a paean to the supernatural whose greatest purpose is letting washed-up actors and pop stars chew the scenery on the way to winning awards .
(8) Like Morton, Sevigny is an actor who holds nothing back from the camera.
(9) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
(10) The committee's findings include that the attacks were not extensively planned by the perpetrators; the intelligence community did a good job of warning about the risk of an attack but a bad job of summarizing the attack when it happened; the state department screwed up by not beefing up security at the mission; nobody blocked any military response; and that the Obama administration was slow to produce a paper trail but was generally not a sinister actor in the episode.
(11) Although it never really has a sense of fun and burns with ill-focused anger, The Paperboy represents a kind of triumph, surely, even if it's just in getting such high-profile actors to do such low-down deeds.
(12) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
(13) An actor dressed like one of the polar bears that figure in Coke ads limped up, wearing a prosthesis on one paw, a dialysis bag and tubing.
(14) Ridley and Boyega are part of a swathe of actors – also including Girls' Adam Driver and Ingmar Bergman regular Max von Sydow – who were confirmed by studio Disney in May.
(15) Braff will direct and play the lead role of a father, actor and husband struggling to find his identity.
(16) The actor and his fee have become the news story, and there's no credible reason to believe that Downey is a HTC fan.
(17) Three female actors, including former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko , are rumoured to be in the running for the lead female role in the upcoming sequel to superhero reboot Man of Steel, reports Variety .
(18) The two groups of actors in this new development--the risk assessors and the strain designers--need the same platform of understanding from the field of microbial ecology, and a number of specific areas which may now be approached by modern technology deserve particular attention.
(19) It appeared Dunaway and Warren Beatty had an envelope containing a card naming a previous award won by La La Land, prompting visible hesitation between the two veteran actors before Dunaway went ahead and named La La Land.
(20) According to this explanation, aspects of the situation are phenomenologically more salient for actors, whereas characteristics of the actor and his behavior are more salient for observers.
Apperception
Definition:
(n.) The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states; perception that reflects upon itself; sometimes, intensified or energetic perception.
Example Sentences:
(1) A retrospective evaluation of stories told to three Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) cards by children at risk isolated six characteristics that were associated with functioning six to 10 years later.
(2) The results of themotical apperceptive tests used in these cases were thoroughly analyzed by the author.
(3) Using a structured thematic apperception technique (the Tell-Me-A-Story [TEMAS] test) to measure attention to pictorial stimuli depicting characters, events, settings, and covert psychological conflicts, a study was conducted with 152 normal and 95 clinical Hispanic, Black, and White school-age children.
(4) In this case, computerized scoring of two very different tests (the Reiss Screen and the Apperceptive Personality Test) yielded very similar results.
(5) Also, the thematic apperception test and Rorschach test as well as electroencephalographic examinations have been carried out on many of the patients included in this study.
(6) Personality development as measured by Loevinger's Washington University Sentence Completion Test, The Friedman Developmental Level Scoring System for the Rorschach, The Urist Mutuality of Autonomy Scale, The Thematic Apperception Test, and indexes from a structured interview were able to discriminate between teenagers at high- and low-risk for pregnancy.
(7) Psychological tests (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Rorschach, Thematic Apperception Test, Sentence Completion, Figure Drawing, and Word Association) were performed and used as an independent check on the data derived from the interviews.
(8) Impairment of formal thought and language in schizophrenia are suggested to result from a developmental disorder pertaining to language and concept formation (apperception).
(9) A review of projective assessment, the use of human figure drawings, anatomically correct dolls and projective apperception testing is presented within the context of clinical assessment of child trauma.
(10) This study investigated the utility of the minority version of the Tell Me a Story (TEMAS) test, a thematic apperception technique for minorities and nonminorities, by discriminating public school and clinical Hispanic and Black children.
(11) A means was devised of assessing elderly individuals' responses to the Senior Apperception Test (SAT) that would discriminate emotionally-cognitively impaired from nonimpaired.
(12) This double dissociation conforms to the classical distinction between apperceptive and associative agnosia, and extends to the somesthetic modality the "double dissociation" between left and right hemispheric lesions and associative and apperceptive recognition disorders, which has been found in other modalities of agnosia.
(13) This study attempted to predict locus of control orientation from responses to the Thematic Apperception Test.
(14) This paper evaluated research concerning the synthesis or integration of information from Wechsler intelligence, Rorschach, and Thematic Apperception tests, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, and Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory in the process of personality assessment.
(15) The Sibling Thematic Apperception Test (S-TAT) was developed to elicit underlying feelings about the relationship, because traditional methods of assessment have failed to tap its negative qualities.
(16) The fact tha the 'maternal function', essential for growth in the early stage, is comprised of events which the baby either experiences or is lacking, such as bodily early contacts, being held in the arms and the quality of holding, eye to eye communication on which baby's apperception develops is underlined.
(17) The Tell Me a Story (TEMAS) Test is a thematic apperception technique composed of 23 chromatic pictures, depicting either minority or nonminority characters interacting in primarily urban and familial settings, and is scored for perceptual and cognitive style, affective state, and personality functioning.
(18) Alexithymic characteristics were examined in a sample of 30 patients fulfilling the DSM-III criteria for psychogenic pain disorder using an interviewer-rated scale (Beth Israel Hospital Psychosomatic Questionnaire), a self-rated scale (Toronto Alexithymia Scale) and a projective technique (Thematic Apperception Test).
(19) The concept of "average expectable apperception" is introduced.
(20) The complementary link of apperceptive agnosias with right-and associative agnosias with left-hemisphere lesions is an expression of this general principle in the posterior cortex.