well-acted
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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And not every fan has been disappointed by the show – on Facebook some ticketholders praised the experience as "well-acted, innovative, exciting and a whole lot of fun".
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2025
Eisenberg’s mousy David is as well-acted as Culkin’s crank.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025
O'Hara brings weight and pathos to a role that so easily could have been a well-acted but toothless reprisal, and she does so effortlessly.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2024
In the play’s well-acted but somewhat diffuse premiere at Playwrights Horizons in 2018, the film sequences were less awful and violent.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2023
With solemn assumption of grotesquely well-acted dignity, he thus leads up the procession of assembled Foxes, who, also in leathern breeches and jack-boots, ride on chairs in the same style, after the Old House.
From The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt
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