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Example sentences for: impersonation
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He does a surprisingly skillful nightclub impersonation, but he doesn't get this president, and Nichols isn't the director to guide him.
Others gripe about the film's two and half hour length, its mishmash of a plot, and John Travolta's inability to do more than a "skillful nightclub impersonation" of the president (Edelstein,
John Travolta's empty nightclub impersonation of Bill Clinton in Primary Colors (1998) had one positive result: It gave him a jump-start on Jan Schlichtmann, the reckless personal injury lawyer at the center of A Civil Action . Travolta's Schlichtmann is much more redolent of Clinton: slick and selfish and corrupt in lots of ways but basically on the side of the angels, too proud and arrogant to change tactics when all is certainly lost.
(As his son, Sarsgaard does a brilliant--and respectful--Malkovitch impersonation that's maybe the best thing in the movie.)
Even critics who can't stand the film are impressed by Carrey: "His performance is a brilliant, almost terrifying impersonation" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). The critics' main bone of contention is that the film makes no attempt to explain the source of his eccentricity: "Mr.