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incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect
his business with the cane was hilarious
How To Use byplay In A Sentence
- The often hilarious byplay between the character and his hard-core fan base is at the core of his appeal, and it was nice to see a little of that, no matter how forced, make it to television.
- Such byplay is engaging for the way it goes against the grain of expectation - our assumptions of what a porn film is supposed to be like and how its one-track-minded characters are meant to behave.
- Such byplay makes this baldly feminist agenda palatable.
- Honestly, she is so oblivious to subtle byplay.
- Wise creates just the right mood of simmering hostility via some pointed Gable/Lancaster byplay and various telling incidents with the crew, which includes a young Jack Warden and Brad Dexter. John Farr: Clark Gable: King of Hollywood
- In many ways a more subdued Todd, with many earmarks of a classic village mystery and less byplay from Hamish, the ghost who haunts Rutledge. A Matter of Justice by Charles Todd: Book summary
- Our lives happen in voices: in inner monologue and outer dialogue, in scenes of interwoven tension and resolution with comic byplay.
- Their byplay leaves little to the viewer's imagination.
- As with the movie itself, the commentaries and extra features focus on a central point: that the movie works because the people involved took out action scenes to focus on the comic byplay between he characters.
- The mechanicals in the production were slow and dull, indulging in endless, random byplay rather than the specific actions called for in the text.