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He] Played The King As If Afraid Someone Else Might Play The Ace.
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[He] played the King as if afraid someone else might play the ace.
-- Unattributed review of a performance of King Lear.
My tears stuck in their little ducts, refusing to be jerked.
-- Peter Stack, movie review
His performance is so wooden you want to spray him with Liquid Pledge.
-- John Stark, movie review
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He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
-- John Mason Brown, drama critic...
The actor who took the role of King Lear played the king as though he expected someone to play the ace.
-- Eugene Field...
But I can't excuse that FLASH GORDON review. That was the *dumbest* movie ever made.
-- A fan of Baron's who can't excuse just *one* little thing...
To call the dialogue wooden is to insult the expressive potential of a tree stump.
-- Gerald Jonas, in his review of Robert L. Forward's "Martian Rainbow" -- in the July 14, 1991 New York Times Book Review....
The most valuable quotation will be the one for which you cannot determine the source.
-- Duggan's Law of Scholarly Research The source for an unattributed quotation will appear in the most hostile review of your work....