Mike McGowan and Michele Ragusa wrap their operetta-quality voices around "So in Love" and "Where Is the Life That Late I Led?" to luscious effect, while William Ryall and Gordon Joseph Weiss are scene-stealingly good as the stage-struck gangsters who tap-dance their way through "Brush Up Your Shakespeare." ❋ Unknown (2008)
Ditching the Bruce character entirely, this "Almighty" focuses on Steve Carell's scene-stealingly tongue-tied newsman Evan Baxter endowed with the Lord's powers, Bruce had memorably made Evan trip over his words on-air. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Worried, Gates offered two inconsistent defenses of himself: the letter was a forgery, and the offending phrase must have been “stealingly copied” by Hamilton when he was on his mission to Albany.8 Washington then told Gates the truth: that his own aide Wilkinson had blurted the words out in a tavern to another officer, who had passed it along to the commander-in-chief. ❋ Richard Brookhiser (1999)
Those letters have been stealingly copied, but which of them, when and by whom, is to me as yet an unfathomable secret. ❋ Benson Bobrick (1997)
If a leaf of the paper, which I slowly, warily, stealingly turned, made but one faintest rustle, how did that _reveille_ boom in echoes through the vacant and haunted chambers of my poor aching heart, my God! and there was a cough in my throat which for a cruelly long time I would not cough, till it burst in horrid clamour from my lips, sending crinkles of cold through my inmost blood. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Those letters have been stealingly copied; but, which of them, when, or by whom, is to me, as yet, an unfathomable secret. ❋ John Marshall (1795)
"W. is the sort of movie we can't help but evaluate in part by comparing its actors to the public figures they impersonate and trying to determine whether the performances transcend impersonation," notes Thandie Newton, in a creaky, sketch-comedy-grade caricature of Jeffrey Wright, so scene-stealingly good as a deeply concerned ❋ Unknown (2009)
All of this turf is familiar, and in your average mall-cop comedy, this scenario would resolve itself with Ronnie outsmarting the cop, solving the crime, and getting the girl (oh yeah, there's a girl, played by the scene-stealingly great Anna Faris). ❋ Unknown (2009)
Jason Simon's Cowardly Lion is scene-stealingly funny, an audience favorite, channeling much of Bert Lahr's fraidy-cat fuss and mock bravado. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Princesse continually did stealingly cast vpon him, saw the often and sodaine chaunces of colour, wherein sometimes appeared ioye, which by and by did ende with infinite nomber of sighes, and with a countenance agreeable to that, which the hart kept secrete and couert, whereby he assured himselfe vnfainedly to be beloued, which caused him to do no lesse (for satisfaction of such like merite and desert done by Adelasia) but to beare vnto her like affection, forcinge her by all diligence and seruice to continue still that good will toward him, yelding himselfe a pray to the selfe same Loue. ❋ William Painter (N/A)
Washington faced the same sort of challenge he had read in Conway’s persiflage, a challenge of his integrity, because there was, he thought, an intimation in Gates’s letter that he had received in some discreditable manner an extract from a paper “stealingly copied.” ❋ Richard Harwell (1968)
Gates was much disturbed: Conway’s letters to him had been “stealingly copied,” he said, “but which of them, when, and by whom, is to me as yet an unfathomable secret.” ❋ Richard Harwell (1968)
