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His thick accent adds a lot to the whole suspicion business, but Lugosi mostly acts his way to greatness with his ominous facial features and his subtly perverse gestures.
Not once does she even give the least hint of a Russian accent, though through the use of very thick sweaters she DOES appear to be the poster girl for Playboy Magazine.
Streisand, her Brooklynese so thick she sometimes lapses into Cockney, wears tacky, hilarious hooker-outfits, but her shrillness isn't modulated (at least not in the first act) and she can sometimes be grating.
But the atmosphere is thick and the "aura" hangs over the movie like a dense mist.
Whoever thought they could pass this swill off as a Lovecraftian horror film was thick in the head!
The tape I saw was followed by a harrowing ten minute outtake of Dylan and John Lennon riding in the back of a limo, the camera focused unflinching (and often unfocused) on them as they mumble their way through a thick purple haze -- sure proof that no one is as clever as he thinks he is on drugs.
The dust was so thick, I could barely read the title.
He's got a thick vein of cleverness pumping just below his magnificently thick exterior.
However, the aspect that really brings the movie down is the seriousness that is laid on extra thick in nearly every scene.
She seems to be in cahoots with a couple of thick headed spies as well as the local sheriff(Mike Concannon).
Financial interests opposed it vigorously at the time, viewing it as the thin end of a dangerous wedge, though they could not have guessed just how thick that wedge would eventually become.
If so, the premature adoption of the single currency is best thought of as a detour through thick, wet cement.
Regulators then shifted to edicts requiring banks to maintain a specified capital cushion, thick enough to cover potential losses.
His foreign-born wife has a thick accent, and lives in a separate residence.
But a newly hired neurosurgeon with 27 years of education may have to read a thick user manual, attend tedious classes, and accept periodic tutoring from a “change champion” to master the various steps required to use his hospital’s IT system.
Only then can it draw a thick line between past and present.
In my inaugural speech, I said that we needed to "draw a thick line between us and the past, that we were not responsible for what we inherited but only for what we will do ourselves."
This was what I meant by drawing a "thick line" between the past and the present.
Maybe with time, the murderous savages that kill for a drawing in the name of their god, will get it through their thick heads that they can never stop us, and every attempt to only fuels our cause more (sic).”
In the meantime, the remaining 18 eurozone member states should consider whether the 2012 “fiscal compact” that they forged in the thick of the euro sovereign-debt crisis needs to be updated.
Stalking a Killer FungusSINGAPORE – Warnings of the rise of so-called superbugs – disease-causing microbes that are resistant to many (or all) antibiotics – have been coming thick and fast in recent years.
On the contrary, if you are from the upper class, you lay it on thick, you turn yourself into a caricature of the higher born, like the old-fashioned aristocrat who despises the timid bourgeois, but gets on fine with his gamekeeper.
The 103-minute production, by the prominent journalist Chai Jing, highlights the health risks posed by the thick smog shrouding China’s most productive cities.
When November comes, India – and particularly its capital city – begins to choke on a thick blanket of smog that chokes lungs, corrodes throats, and impairs visibility.
Michael Walzer, for example, speaks about what he calls "thin" and "thick" loyalty.
What is harder to find, suggests Walzer, is solidarity on the "thick" level--those times when we must take into account conflicting values.
But many of the BRICS, along with some other emerging economies, may hit a thick wall, with growth and financial markets taking a serious beating.
With North Korea, the provocations continue to come thick and fast.
Data surveillance cameras feed into China’s “social credit” data bank, where the regime compiles thick files on its people’s creditworthiness, consumption patterns, and overall reliability.
This amnesty program – together with a broader shift toward equality between SOEs and private firms – could remove a thick cloud of uncertainty for Chinese businesspeople, encouraging them to keep their wealth and talent in the country.
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