Sentences Generator
And
Your saved sentences

No sentences have been saved yet

"hammy" Definitions
  1. (of a style of acting) artificial or exaggerated

147 Sentences With "hammy"

How to use hammy in a sentence? Find typical usage patterns (collocations)/phrases/context for "hammy" and check conjugation/comparative form for "hammy". Mastering all the usages of "hammy" from sentence examples published by news publications.

And those moments when they're not just being hammy to be hammy, they can be very real.
Cranston's a great actor who is as hammy as his
"I'm naturally kind of hammy," he said with a laugh.
His hammy acting grabs your attention from the chips and salsa.
Traditionally, hammy Hollywood actresses have offered themselves up on a plate.
His language is clear, unpretentious, a little clunky, a little hammy.
More often than not, however, it just comes across as hammy.
" AC: "I'm naturally quite hammy and obviously came from an entertainment background.
It didn't help that the man pulled a hammy along the way.
"Dido of Idaho" builds to a hammy Hallmark-message of an ending.
In this case, the hamstring is also known as the HAMMY. 47A.
Then my calf started getting tight and my hammy started to get tight.
Caucasian flesh (it's a pretty white crowd) is rendered in hammy pink acrylic.
In Atomic Blonde, someone who's a little more hammy (like McAvoy) is hammy in a way that perfectly aligns with the film's brooding tone, while someone who's more naturalistic, like Marsan, tweaks that naturalism just enough to tilt toward ham.
Cue some gloriously hammy dramatics and a splendid use of the "Uptown Funk" chorus.
This hammy was looking for a snack and ended up eating danger for breakfast.
Allan-Headley's Hammy is a hulking mass of animalistic desire, equally repulsive and attractive.
Finally, Taylor-Johnson won at the Golden Globes and gives a big, hammy performance.
She'll get hammy and lean into "catchphrases" as if she's a performer with the WWE.
Exhibit A: Please behold the aforementioned stuffed shark, visible in Drake's hammy post-VMAs Instagram.
Hammy magniloquence risks alienating viewers, not just for an evening but for life, as does obscurity.
Mulaney's dorky vibe and hammy (sorry) delivery make him the ideal fit for this extremely peculiar character.
Thomas Markle said he now thought the pictures were "stupid and hammy," according to the TMZ report.
It doesn't give the hammy Hicks much to react to, and his performance suffers as a result.
However, by the third episode, as Olaf's schemes get more ridiculous, Harris' hammy performance works in his favor.
Bardem's absurdly hammy work here makes his Skyfall villain look like a model of thespianic restraint in comparison.
The acting is also a competition between the two stars, each trying to top the other's hammy turn.
How can the conclusion be anything other than letting this strange, hammy, fundamentally self-directed thing go on forever?
Leto's performance was as hammy as his costume—neon-green hair, an excess of "HAHA" tattoos, and rosy red lips.
Obstacles will present themselves, but Frank (the hammy Kevin Spacey) and Claire (the almost perfect Robin Wright) Underwood will overcome.
If many of these attempts have the air of a hammy "James Bond" film, Marita Lorenz was Castro's femme fatale.
When a console's death is announced via hammy eulogy from an aging CEO, the news kind of washes over you.
If you're already dreading the end of "Bones," miss "Castle," and love hammy procedurals in general, this is for you.
Van Zandt, who's wearing a cowboy hat, is handsome and hammy, giggling, smoking, scrambling into a rabbit warren for laughs.
Her second album&aposs token ballad "Sorry" is super hammy, while her G-Eazy collaboration "Him & I" is deeply uninspired.
Matarazzo and McLaughlin may have a little extra exposure this season and their ability to resist getting hammy remains admirable.
I don't find it all that alluring to watch people — especially corny, hammy children — watch or look at other stuff.
Will Ferrell's, loose, hammy George W. Bush helped make him a star, and the style of it defined his early career.
It was a hammy performance, but Olaf himself, with his love of acting, theater, costume and disguise, is a ham, too.
Without falling into hammy Socialist Realism style, Kollar rendered French working class heroes in beautiful, discreet, lush black-and-white tones.
Even the witch character, played by Yashinsky in a style you would call extravagantly hammy if ham were kosher, isn't supernatural.
Markle described the posed photos to TMZ as "stupid and hammy" and said that he regrets going along with the photo agency.
I don't know how it's possible for a soulless killing machine to be hammy, but The Waif preordered this honeybaked with relish.
The original personality is mostly an afterthought, a brief interlude in a hammy performance from McAvoy, clearly having the time of his life.
It's essentially a hammy, overstuffed mess that, much like the childhood memories of the adult characters in the miniseries, we have largely repressed.
In the earlier films, Pine leaned a little too heavily on Kirk's cockiness, perhaps a bit intimidated by William Shatner's swaggering, hammy portrayal.
There's a theatricality to the acting here — it's never stagy or hammy, but it has a precise, pointed clarity that grabs our attention.
Lady Gaga is a dream Vegas resident: she's a hammy theatre kid with triple threat chops, and a formidable live singer and instrumentalist.
Mr Obama's vision is not dissimilar; but where the president elevates it with magical rhetoric, Mrs Clinton's performance is so hammy as to annoy.
He was a debate team champ and a performer in high-school musicals; he played the lead in Sweeney Todd, that hammy demon barber.
His hammy fables of the loving-yet-austere upbringing of little Joey Biden in his idealized birthplace of Scranton, Pennsylvania, are easy to mock.
However, he admitted the photos made him appear "stupid and hammy," and has since said he regrets his decision to participate in the charade
This is handled best with the puzzles, and less well with the occasionally hammy Dictaphones dotted around containing quotes from famous theologians and scientists.
The artist jumped into the fray, working his hammy Southern European charm to transform the scene into a kind of performance art/comedy routine.
There were moments when he pushed too hard and was too hammy, but his boyish zeal (or should that be puppyish?) had real gusto.
Oliver, like many children, is curious enough about the world to love science and hammy enough to want his own YouTube show on the subject.
She's young, she's nowhere near worldly, and at the gas station where she works, her favorite customer is an amateur stock-car racer named Hammy.
Joyful and hammy, he belted out "Cruella De Vil" at the cruise's Disney sing-a-long and also hosts an end-of-cruise dance party.
Your first mental image of Vincent Price may be as a hammy presence in horror movies, but can you picture him as a Mormon leader?
Which is why Mr. Lang's hammy habits felt so out of place as they crept into a performance that otherwise had moments of exquisite restraint.
And a new threat arrives: Leilah (a hammy yet almost silent Noomi Rapace), a lethal elf serving a malevolent entity called, yes, the Dark Lord.
But the word we use around the office to describe the show is hammy, and that extends to Highmore's robotic performance of the main role.
If it's hammy and apt to go viral, all the greater are the chances it will make it to that one set of eyes and ears.
"Sledgehammer," a rueful and dark song penned by Sia, stands in pretty stark contrast to the hammy Beastie Boys track selected for the film's first trailer.
An affable entertainer, he's best when he applies the brakes and motions to the audience, modulating his tone and showcasing his lively impressions and hammy expressions.
The divas and cavaliers of this all-male troupe are — as they present themselves to us in performance — fabulously stupid, artificial, hammy, clichéd, superficial, dated, monstrous.
The tomboyish Pumpgirl (Labhaoise Magee) who works in a small-town gas station in Northern Ireland, dreams of Hammy (Hamish Allan-Headley), a reckless car lover.
Mark Wahlberg put out a vague tweet of American pride that turned out to be a promo for his hammy new movie about the Boston Marathon bombings.
Blackman — hammy, irrepressible and verbose — is a collector of objects whimsical and weird: a 6-foot papier-mâché automaton elephant, vintage dog collars, Campbell's soup-can dishware.
She's hammy — a ridiculous, over-the-top, drama nerd with an Elizabeth Taylor fascination — and she's always been at her most fun when she's in a vindictive mood.
But she manages to survive long enough to get help from a mute scavenger (Jim Carrey, whose blessed silence makes him charming and wryly funny instead of hammy).
To say much else might give away the careering events in the second half, which here come accompanied by thunder and lightning and some surprisingly hammy supporting performances.
Stewart pulled a hammy early in Week 2 and will probably miss a month, whereupon we'll undergo the glorious guessing game about when he'll reassume a full workload.
But the film's biggest pleasure comes courtesy of a hilariously hammy Jagger, who delivers such gems of art-speak as "Modigliani provenance" with a gleefully upper-class air.
The initial documentary style quickly gives way to staged, even hammy, dramatic moments, such as a verbal altercation between Audrey and her uptight aunt at a family party.
Well, the new film confirms that Oyelowo is one of those rare actors who can unleash a formal speech before a crowd, fortissimo, without seeming hammy or haranguing.
But that's not the case here, where Jim Carrey inhabits the role and turns the villain into, essentially, a throwback Jim Carrey character — think very loud and very hammy.
Related: 'Toy Story 4' delivers another cinematic grand slam At 32, I even named my real life cat Hammy, affectionately after my love of the "Toy Story" piggie bank.
His charisma and physicality let him create a believable Logan in the original X-Men, and his smart-ass, almost-hammy performances make him watchable in just about anything.
But when Hammy jokingly tries to tease out some signing rumors, Brody lets slip that his dad is trying to lock down Francisco Lindor for a whopping seven-year contract.
Zemeckis, with the help of the special effects supervisor Stan Winston, transformed a hammy Lloyd into a headless ghoul who grows only more talkative and unhinged after he is beheaded.
Dev faces a similar conundrum in the professional sphere, as his new mentor, the agreeably hammy Chef Jeff (an excellent Bobby Cannavale), is revealed to be a serial sexual harasser.
George Clooney plays a hammy mid-20th-century movie star who gets kidnapped in this Coen Brothers film, which sees those sibling filmmakers lovingly poking fun at old-time Hollywood.
Star, in particular, has no compunctions about trading on her looks to get ahead, in a hammy way that brought the aforementioned camp classic "Showgirls" (and its unintentional giggles) to mind.
Ian McShane (reprising his character from the first film) and Laurence Fishburne (reuniting with Reeves for their first narrative film together since the Matrix trilogy) both turn in hammy, smirking performances.
CeCe plays the male diva role to perfection here, instilling every word with the kind of urgency and intensity that'd be laughable and hammy if it didn't feel so fucking real.
As if we're telling a sobbing child that Hammy the Hamster has "gone to heaven," rather than admitting that he's residing, in pieces, in the guts of the neighbor's German Shepherd.
And an actor who played one of television's most celebrated jerks appears on YOUNG SHELDON at 8:30: Jason Alexander (George Costanza on "Seinfeld") will play the protagonist's hammy drama teacher.
Where Mr. Polanski achieved a clammy sense of dread through a hammy mix of horror and humor, Ms. Radoczy never creates a convincing theatrical world for this unsettling and perverse story.
The villain is the washed-up actor Phoenix Buchanan, played by Hugh Grant in a performance of such hammy precision that I think I laughed at every single thing he did.
The intro sequence is a deliberate reference to The Twilight Zone: it cribs most of the classic show's familiar language, and Mark Hamill does a hammy Rod Serling impression as the narrator.
This movie has almost no plot to speak of outside the mugging of its hammy comic relief character "Danny," but the hilarious and inexplicable ending elevates it from being a complete snoozefest.
So I picked one up and slowly accumulated a modest heap of games—Sonic CD, of course, and also the likes of Thunderhawk, Ground Zero Texas, Soulstar and the deliciously hammy Tomcat Alley.
The Bullet Club's leader, Kenny Omega, wears Nintendo-themed T-shirts and blends athleticism with a hammy, meta-wrestling practice that is light years removed from his days as a WWE developmental washout.
Whether or not he did accept money, it seems ill-advised of Mr. Markle to agree to a stunt that was so "stupid and hammy" -- as he himself has reportedly described the pictures.
Outlook: A subtler, more inscrutable operator, Claire is more interesting than the indefatigably hammy Frank, whose fourth-wall-breaking monologues had grown especially tiresome (though Claire has begun to use the same device).
A few days later, I tracked her move to a bigger studio, which she documented dutifully on Instagram to her 28,000 followers, with a hammy grin and a request for a high five.
While the "object in the picture is moving" plot is clichéd, it could be easily juiced up with a lot of world building, an infusion of jump scares, and opportunities for hammy acting.
Instead, the distraction of road-show bells and whistles (70mm projection, overture, intermission), a few overly hammy performances and at least a full hour of fat made this one a slog to sit through.
But, for me at least, Plan 9 overcomes every ramshackle special effect and hammy line reading by virtue of Wood's passion for cinema and fervent belief that its magic will glaze over any flaws.
One of many to talk about it was Jimmy Kimmel, who thought the president could've done a much better job of hamming up the so-called border crisis, which is already pretty hammy already.
He stole Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves out from under Kevin Costner's nose with a deliciously hammy (often improvised) turn as the Sheriff of Nottingham, but he didn't want to be just a Hollywood villain.
There were still a few moments that bordered on being slightly hammy — I may just have been on the lookout for this, though — and the setup with Bill's love interest felt a little bit underdeveloped.
It tends to provide the highlights of a great life, rather than digging deep, and it tends to offer an actor a chance to do a hammy impression, rather than something with more depth and feeling.
An actor's actor, Gary Oldman, 59, is known for his versatility and wholesale, sometimes hammy, immersion into roles that have included Dracula, Beethoven, Sid Vicious, George Smiley, the devil, Lee Harvey Oswald, Rosencrantz and Commissioner Gordon.
You know when you go to the beach and you bring a ham sandwich for lunch, and it gets a bit of sand in it, so when you're chewing, it's grainy and gritty and hammy all at once?
It's letting us express more of ourselves — we can be (terribly hammy) actors, we can be lip-syncing karaoke stars, or we can be sweetheart kids reminding our parents we love them — without having to expose more of ourselves.
Cervantes's "Don Quixote" and Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" are literary masterpieces — but the ballet "Don Quixote" (May 15-20) is just another romp, while the ballet "Onegin" (June 19-24) reduces the story into a hammy historical-fiction tear-jerker.
There's a smack-your-forehead familiarity to much of "Rebel" and an occasional clumsiness of execution that you have to put up with to enjoy the appealingly hammy performances or embellishments like Ms. Truitt's wide array of natural hairstyles.
Having bowed out of directing the 2004 movie version of "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events," he returns to help launch the new Netflix series, a sprightly, whimsical affair featuring Neil Patrick Harris in Jim Carrey's hammy Count Olaf role.
The Real Deal: As anyone with a Moons Over My Hammy habit already knows, Denny's has partnered with Lucasfilm to promote Solo: A Star Wars Story (and also No Kid Hungry, an anti-child hunger charity the restaurant chain supports).
As Phoenix, Grant gets to indulge his hammy side – make that sides, actually, since one of Phoenix's creepier quirks involves talking to himself in the mirror in the personalities of different roles he's played, like he's Willem Dafoe in Spider-Man.
Video: Jax184/YouTube For Logan, Rappard and Jones, the two worlds that needed merging weren't just air and sea, but the the present and the past, the virtual and the real, some hammy early 90s computer animation and paper mache sculptures.
Maya receives frequent help from her aforementioned pal, Joan (Leah Remini, making the hammy most of her screen time), and is surrounded by a colorful assortment of co-workers, ranging from the snobby and suspicious to the nerdy and needy.
At his show the next night, headlining Manhattan's Santos Party Haus in a flannel shirt and with his hair redone in cornrows, Uzi truts and windmills around the stage dancing, punctuating lines with dabs, exaggerated winks, and other hammy facial expressions.
Bonus: for the inevitable conflict-with-romantic-partners story lines, during every conversation whose upshot is "the investigation/your mistresses/secrets you're keeping are leaving you so EMOTIONALLY DISTANT," both of them can give the camera a really hammy glance.
While the script is better than the original's, delivered with voice acting that does sound like it plausibly could have been spoken aloud by humans rather than text-to-speech machines, neither is too good to the point of puncturing the hammy atmosphere.
" Do your best to scrutinize a remarkable table inlaid with a map of France in colored marble, while an ambassador with a hammy German accent as strong as a Doppelbock lager recounts that "ve crossed sroo the guard room" to meet "ze king!
The hammy vocals spoke to the fading high school theater kid in me, but the resignation was no put-on — I never knew you could have disdain and desire exist simultaneously in a pop song, to mock the thing you're addicted to so bitterly.
One of the 1988 film's most iconic scenes features a choreographed dance number performed to an original recording of Harry Belafonte's "Banana Boat Song," and it's easy to see how a hammy story with larger-than-life characters could be well-suited to the stage.
At their best, they leave room for giddy star turns: In "Bat," Andrew Polec and Lena Hall blasted their way through the songs' peaks and valleys like hammy rock gods, while as Killer Queen, Krystle Chance propelled "Another One Bites the Dust" into orbit.
Katharine Hepburn won an Oscar for her performance as Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Peter O'Toole unleashes his angriest, most regal growl as Henry II in Anthony Harvey's hammy 218 costume drama, whose lavish production values can be seen in full flourish in this new restoration.
Longtime Underworld series fans, for whom this has become a soap opera punctuated by violence: everyone's always harping on who did what to who years ago, there's a lot of hammy bad-guy scheming, and occasionally two poor doomed characters will hook up under unlikely circumstances.
As ever, hammy speeches touched on an eclectic range of topics, including the roots of the British legal system in the Ten Commandments, disappointment that the "astonishingly bad" Nazis had poisoned the well of politics and a defence of someone's right to "black up" while charity fundraising.
Frankly, the only this whole sharing package could be better is if it offered the option to export those knockouts as a movie with extra cartoonish sound effects and a hammy announcer cracking the most relevant dad jokes in his limited repertoire overtop of it all.
Though it's full of enjoyably hammy, artificially futuristic sounds (tracks like "Out Of My Head" and "Unlock It" are the sonic equivalent of what you see when you type "Y2K" into Depop), Pop 20193 genuinely provides a groundbreaking conceptual blueprint for the possibilities of mainstream(-ish) pop.
He's also not afraid to be obvious and almost a little stupid: A standout guest track on Chance the Rapper's recent album, Coloring Book, finds him crooning "you are very special" in an exaggeratedly rich tone that would be hammy if not for its utter sincerity.
Wyler's Ben-Hur is far from perfect and hasn't worn entirely well with age: It's too long and too slow, too insistent on capturing its dialogue in medium shots that box its actors into the movie's stage-like sets, too invested in Charlton Heston's hammy performance.
So now Magee delivers Pumpgirl's bittersweet monologues from behind the apparent safety of her gas station counter (bursting with Irish snacks and candies), while O'Malley can actually put down the kettle to boil on her stove, as Sinead speaks of getting tea ready for Hammy and their children.
The three most likely contenders here are Malek (whose performance is the most acclaimed thing about a new show that made a big Emmy splash), Odenkirk (whose network has won this category five of the past eight years), and Spacey (who has two Oscars and plays a very hammy role).
Other MacMillan pieces feel less important or interesting; the 1974 "Elite Syncopations" (performed by a mix of principals from different companies) is set to music by Scott Joplin and other ragtime composers, and its insistent perkiness and slightly hammy jokes pall, even though it is choreographically challenging and smoothly constructed.
As if to counter that possibility, Ms. Burke, herself an acclaimed actress from films like "Nil by Mouth," opts for protracted double takes and hammy exaggerations to buoy an abridged version of the 1892 play, which has far more resonance and emotion than are allowed to surface on this occasion.
Band of Misfits, he voiced an inept, self-aggrandizing swashbuckler; in Guy Ritchie's swingin' 203s spy thriller The Man from U.N.C.L.E. from 2015, he played a stuffy MI6 honcho; and in last year's biopic-cum-farce Florence Foster Jenkins, Grant was the adoring, hammy husband to Meryl Streep's warbling socialite.
Nevertheless, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was almost universally praised, with special compliments for the score, the signature Disney magic in the production design, and for Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow, a character who felt like a throwback to the era of musical comedy and hammy pratfalls.
Mr. Hamilton, 28, manages a network of Facebook pages and makes viral videos for his "Hammy T.V." channel — mostly lowbrow fare with titles like "Shocking Pit Bull Social Experiment" and "World's Hottest Pepper on Girlfriend's Thong" — that have earned him a level of popularity typically associated with Kardashians and BuzzFeed food clips.
Thomas tells TMZ that he now thinks the photos — which showed him getting fitted for his wedding outfit, reading a book about photos of Great Britain, and looking at pictures of Meghan and Harry — are "stupid and hammy," and that he was following the instructions of the paparazzi agency in posing the photographs.
As in his last special, which was recorded at Madison Square Garden, he incorporates a multitude of goofy voices, this time including a hammy Bela Lugosi-style vampire, an Elizabethan Lothario and a slew of stereotypical characters that he says stuck in his head since he was a kid watching old television shows.
Both of today's Alfredos, sadly, are touristy and overpriced, though Il Vero is almost worth a visit for the hundreds of framed photos of the owners mock-feeding giant handfuls of fettuccine to celebrity visitors whose expressions range from hammy complicity (James Stewart, Sylvester Stallone) to perturbation bordering on panic (Peter Sellers, Sophia Loren).
The spectacle of actors of the quality of Russell Crowe, Aaron Paul, Janet McTeer, Octavia Spencer and Jane Fonda earnestly struggling to wring eye moisture from hammy, flat-footed dialogue (credited to Brad Desch, an unknown), while maintaining some dignity, is depressing proof that an actor is only as good as his or her material.
" Here's a rundown of what critics have said of "Knives Out" ahead of its opening: Ann Hornaday, a critic with The Washington Post, praised Craig's role in the film as Benoit Blanc, a private detective with a hammy Southern accent, and called "Knives Out" a "cheekily playful updating of Agatha Christie by way of Trump-era politics.
There's maybe, maybe something to be said about how often the young women in this movie play into the hammy misogyny of their college environment by calling each other sluts, whores, and dumb bitches, but I'd rather take it at face value, as a sleepover movie with a few overly cynical jokes and a buoyant breakout performance from a compelling lead.
Pamela Anderson was put in crutches following a calf injury, Lindsey Stirling had a rib injury, Melissa Rycroft suffered a disc herniation, Misty May-Treanor tore her Achilles, Bill Nye tore a tendon, Drew Scott pulled a hammy, Marie Osmond fainted, Derek Hough hurt his foot, and both Tamar Braxton and Kim Zolciak-Biermann had to withdraw due to blood clot issues.
It wraps both the family story and the demonic story in satisfying fashion, then shifts to a lengthy coda that brings closure to all the one-season characters, while leaving Tomas and his fellow exorcist Father Marcus (Ben Daniels, giving a performance that is perfectly hammy) in a place that suggests new directions for the series, should Tomas and Marcus have to reunite to defeat evil again.
Yesterday, members of their fan club (ahem) received mysterious "letters" that probably pertain to their new album, which is probably called Blackout: I mean, fine I guess—it's just that for some reason, while very similar marketing works for musicians like King Krule and Brand New who have been out of the spotlight for years, for U2 who are, for better or worse, extremely hammy, it feels a lot less interesting.
Cory Doctorow, a special adviser to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told VICE the effect of repealing net neutrality would be anti-competitive: With power concentrated in the hands of a few big companies—MindGeek, along with other tube site owners like Hammy Media and WGCZ Holding, plus powerful brands like Hustler and Vivid—small players looking to make a different product won't even step onto the playing field.
And then I spent months telling people, like I went back to Nashville for Christmas, and I would have people over, and I would tell them my 30 Rock story, and I was telling everyone about how it was coming out in the spring, and it came out, and it was like one three-word line, and I was in the background of the shot like stealing focus, and they were literally trying to edit where I was around because I was literally so hammy.
Kate Erbland, IndieWire Still, fans of the Disney feature have long clamored for a sequel to the musical charmer, if only to spend more time with a cadre of cute characters (including, of all things, a hammy reindeer and Josh Gad as a sentient snowman who has zero right to be as cute as he is) inside an inventive new world.... Perhaps they should have been careful what they wished for, if only because it's about to be upended by a fresh new story.

No results under this filter, show 147 sentences.

Copyright © 2024 RandomSentenceGen.com All rights reserved.