Example sentences for: mcteer

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  • McTeer, an English actress who won a 1997 Tony award for her Nora in A Doll's House , gives a performance that is so gorgeously modulated you'll think she has been in movies all her life.

  • In the opening scenes, for instance, even as McTeer enacts Nora's dependence on her husband, she shows the cunning that is the only outlet for the character's acute and sensitive mind--submission as manipulation.

  • By the final confrontation with her husband, McTeer has so skillfully foreshadowed Nora's transformation that, though it seems bewilderingly abrupt to her, it seems emotionally inevitable to us.

  • The second free-spirit-mom-on-the-run-with-teen-age-daughter story in three months receives much better reviews than the first ( Anywhere But Here ): It "impresses with its freshly considered action and total avoidance of the stale and routine" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). British stage actress Janet McTeer's performance as the mother stands out, and the low-budget, genuine feeling of the film results in "one of the few movies ever made that doesn't feel like a movie," in which the characters "throb and course with life" (Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post ). (Click to read David Edelstein's review in Slate .)

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