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actor
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actor noun actor, aggrieved party, complainant, litigant, malcontent, man with a grievance, operator, participant, party, performer, person, petitioner, plaintiff, qui facit
Associated concepts: an actor as a witness in a prosecution, an actor in a legal proceeding

ACTOR, practice. 1. A plaintiff or complainant. 2. He on whom the burden of proof lies. In actions of replevin both parties are said to be actors. The proctor or advocate in the courts of the civil law, was called actor.



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Polls show that voters find Brown sincere and honest - in an implied contrast with the actorish Blair - and yet the previous prime minister's persona scarcely changed across 13 years of leading party and country, whereas the current PM, compared to his glowering chancellorship, looks like an emergency construct: new clothes, hair and voice, like the makeover scene in Evita.
Among the large supporting cast members, James Carville, the liberal media spokesman and the brains behind Bill Clinton’s two victorious presidential elections, startled me at first in the role of Missouri’s Governor Crittenden, the mortal enemy of Jesse James, but I was quickly won over by his unquiveringly straight-faced actorish zeal.
I was less convinced by Orlando Bloom who, like Brad, seems a little overawed with the rather formal and stilted actorish dialogue.
 
 
 
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