(n.) A female stageplayer; a woman who acts a part.
Example Sentences:
(1) I read somewhere that one of the actresses you admire is Charlize Theron and she's another great beauty who started out modelling but whose breakthrough role came when she uglied up [to play serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster ].
(2) Baker was proud of having fired her dramatic coach from the set and needing a maximum of only five takes for the difficult actress.
(3) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
(4) Might she crown them all with a best actress Oscar?
(5) The song also features Tatum's Magic Mike co-star Olivia Munn and Precious actress Gabourey Sidibe – plus a cameo role for Miley Cyrus who gets trapped under a vending machine.
(6) Hotel Rwanda actress Sophie Okonedo, Jonathan La Paglia (Cold Case), Melissa George (Grey's Anatomy) and Neighbours actor Alex Dimitriades feature in the TV adaptation of Tsiolkas's book.
(7) I know a lot of actresses, but I don't have that kind of relationship with them."
(8) Each actress was programed to act the part of a difficult-to-interview patient and an easy-to-interview patient.
(9) Earlier this month it emerged that the paper's news editor, Ian Edmondson, had been suspended amid allegations relating to the hacking of actress Sienna Miller's phone.
(10) Or as Rowan Blanchard , a 13-year-old actress, neatly put it, “the way a black woman experiences sexism and inequality is different from the way a white woman experiences sexism and inequality”.
(11) He said that it is often a lack of scripts that holds actresses back, before adding: "Hopefully the studios will develop more movies for them.
(12) However indignant Hollande may have been about a glossy celebrity magazine revealing the details of his affair with a French actress – and he said his indignation was "total" – whatever reflections and considerations were going through the presidential grey matter on Tuesday morning, the idea of sitting down and drafting his resignation was almost certainly not among them.
(13) Shonda auditioned everyone and their mother, because for African American actresses this was the glass slipper – so she let everyone try it on."
(14) As well as being an actress, you're also a published journalist, have edited a book on film and are currently producing and writing a series on Dickens for the BBC.
(15) There may be lingering doubts over whether Meryl Streep , Viola Davis or outside bet Rooney Mara will claim the Academy Award for best actress later this month, and no-one is absolutely certain if Jean Dujardin , George Clooney or Gary Oldman will be picking up the equivalent male gong at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
(16) People want us to cheer that black actors from The Butler and 12 Years a Slave are likely to be up for best actor and actress awards, yet it feels like a throwback, almost to the Gone with the Wind era.
(17) Riva, the oldest nominee ever for best actress category, has a very Gallic disdain for such public adulation.
(18) More predictable were the three awards that went to Tom Hooper's Les Misérables – two technical, and a best supporting actress gong for Anne Hathaway's showstopping role as warbling prostitute Fantine.
(19) Zoe's client Anne Hathaway is nominated in the supporting actress category for Les Misérables.
(20) That same year, he married his partner, the French actress Sunrise Coigney, reportedly after she turned down his proposal once before.
Doer
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.
(v. t. & i.) An agent or attorney; a factor.
Example Sentences:
(1) The accompanying articles (Saffen, D.W., Presper, K.A., Doering, T.L., and Roseman, S. (1987) J. Biol.
(2) He added: "South Africa has to stop feeling sorry for itself and be doers instead of talkers.
(3) The documents contained an undated “personal message” from Trump to new enrollees at the school: “Only doers get rich.
(4) Results indicate that when the harm-doers apologized, as opposed to when they did not, the victim-subjects refrained from severe aggression against them.
(5) This weekend the very accomplished Rona Fairhead, former FT chief executive and now the government’s choice to be the new chair of the BBC Trust, was described namelessly in a Telegraph headline as “mother of three.” It was decidedly reminiscent of that Sunday Times front page headline in April, “Grandmother, 71, tackles slave traffickers for the Pope” , sparking condescending mental images of a sweet little ol’ granny pummelling evil-doers with her cane.
(6) The chancellor made his pitch for Britain's greying vote in a package for "makers, doers and savers" designed to complete the repair job after the deepest recession of the modern era, warning that cuts would continue long into the next parliament.
(7) Once, Whitehall might have looked to local government for a "doer".
(8) The nucleotide sequence of Escherichia coli ptsI indicates four -SH residues per subunit (Saffen, D. W., Presper, K. A., Doering, T. L., and Roseman, S. (1987) J. Biol.
(9) I’m a doer, not a talker,” Bush said at an event in Wolfeboro, reviving digs he has taken at senators for spending more time delivering floor speeches than passing meaningful legislation.
(10) Situation attributions were preferred when the harm-doer was white, and person (dispositional) attributions were preferred in the black-protagonist conditions.
(11) Barnett said it was “yet to be determined” whether online advocates of these acts were “the doers … or they’re just the keyboard activists who light a fuse under somebody else”.
(12) This will be a meeting of "doers", men and women willing to fight the Obama administration and its perceived attack on US free enterprise and unfettered wealth.
(13) (“He says he is the thinker, and I am the doer,” Regina told me later.
(14) To help with this some personal budget users, frustrated by the talk of people who don't know enough about what it is really like, have formed the Doers Club.
(15) Finally, three of the last 25 prizes have gone to what could be termed doers of good works, like the micro-finance pioneer Muhammad Yunus in 2006 .
(16) Parking is near the elegiac ruins of Tintern Abbey, and from there one embarks upon a digestible but heart thumping climb up to the Devil's Pulpit, a rocky outcrop, affording fantastic views, where the evil doer himself supposedly used to preach temptation to the industrious monks scurrying below.
(17) The delightful triumph of the "doers" in Rehn's suture of a stab wound and Souttar's intracardiac mitral valve manipulations is saluted.
(18) I'm an energetic doer, and should be a sales rep just like Donald Trump, Eddie Murphy, Bruce Willis, Madonna or Jack Nicholson.
(19) Hezza is a (mildly dyslexic) doer, not a thinker, but he understands the restless dynamic of capitalism and is not naive about its weaknesses.
(20) We have a prime minister who first, believes in climate change and, secondly, is a doer.