Example sentences for: duvall

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  • No actor has ever brought the kind of belief to an evangelist that Duvall brings to Sonny, the tormented protagonist of The Apostle . And no one else could have created a character who stirs in the film audience such disparate responses: He's magnificent, he's dangerously crazy, he's magnificent and he's dangerously crazy.

  • (The last film for which I have unqualified admiration is Robert Duvall's The Apostle .) I was enraged by the killing of the Iraqi mother in Three Kings and resented some of the jokiness and formula machinations that followed in its wake.

  • Seemingly terrorized by her hooting-mad, derelict father (Robert Duvall, in a hilarious cameo), Doss doffs her duds at the first opportunity and promptly has the hapless attorney on a very tight retainer.

  • Where other filmmakers have tried to assert that showmanship somehow precludes belief, Duvall demonstrates how showmanship and belief can reinforce and even galvanize each other, the former driving the latter to transcendental heights.

  • Robert Duvall, uniquely, has a face that manages to be both granitelike and plastic.


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