The part is pure Cary Grant, but Fiennes plays it with a woodenness that brings to mind a bad imitation of Harrison Ford.
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As a congressman and a senator, and in the 1988 and 1992 campaigns, Gore earned a reputation as a man of spectacular woodenness.
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Two other rising young stars, Joanna Going and Rose McGowan, as a local doctor and her visiting younger sister, match Affleck in woodenness.
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While such effects lend the look of the film a stylish technological gloss, they also contribute to its overall air of woodenness and shrill didacticism.
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At a 1994 media dinner here, he invoked his image of woodenness by being wheeled into the banquet hall strapped statue-like to a handcart.
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If he had tried to be a fun guy at that convention speech to counteract his image of woodenness, it would have seemed like a calculation,
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Gore may also want to choose someone with a little more charm, such as Indiana Sen . Evan Bayh, to counterbalance his own reputation for woodenness.
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Some of the performers are playing things completely straight; others-- most notably Priestley-- punch their lines with a woodenness that can only be intentional.
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Later on, LeBlanc's hunky, easygoing presence becomes more natural, to the point where it seems as if his woodenness might be tongue-in-cheek.
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The woodenness makes the smiles and even grins that young people-- squirming children or enthusiastic teens-- still bring to the pope's face that much more noticeable.
