How to Use screen presence in a Sentence

screen presence

noun
  • One of the first actors to become known as much for his voice as his screen presence.
    — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The joke is blunt, and the concept doesn’t sit comfortably with c’s screen presence.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Pitt’s screen presence has aged like a leather jacket, scuffed in all the right places and cooler than ever.
    — Michael Ordoña, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 June 2025
  • Moore would prove to be a fun, lighter screen presence in later films, but this first shot at broad comedy ain’t it.
    — Eddie Mouradian, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Sidle proves believable as a big-dreams wannabe with an easy relaxed screen presence.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 30 June 2023
  • Johnson has an earthy screen presence that contrasts well with Rice’s ice princess ingenue.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Beautiful woman, but there are statues with more screen presence.
    — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 10 July 2024
  • If Gladstone’s screen presence is marked by stony reserve, her childhood was anything but.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2023
  • Few characters, real or imaginary, have sustained this type of stage and screen presence for so many decades.
    — Michael Taube, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • But luckily, Mattel’s screen presence more than speaks for itself.
    — Abby Monteil, Them, 6 Aug. 2024
  • As O’Connell points out, the role is often silent and shows that Willis need not open his mouth to be a strong screen presence.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
  • She’s already proven to be a formidable screen presence and a performer with a strong sense of precision.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2024
  • One of the assets of the show is having a lot of young talents who have big potential and that until now haven’t had that much screen presence.
    — Emiliano Granada, Variety, 6 Mar. 2023
  • These quieter turns reaffirmed his screen presence — without the pyrotechnics.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Even more striking than her lack of thespian chops, however, is her complete absence of screen presence.
    — Michaela Zee, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Which doesn’t mean Charli doesn’t have screen presence, obviously.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2026
  • And the best movie monsters transcend the effects behind them through the intangibles of screen presence.
    — A.a. Dowd, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • Affleck, of course, has always been a more garrulous, charismatic screen presence.
    — Jake Coyle, Twin Cities, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Washington has screen presence for days, but there’s not much modulation in his performance here.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Her arc this season has felt somewhat thinner, though Dourif remains a compelling screen presence.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Byrne has never been better, sharper, or more intimidating as a screen presence, carrying the movie with squints and frowns.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Her screen presence is such that any project including her will have originality basically baked in.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The veteran character actor became a ubiquitous and sage screen presence as an older man.
    — Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Lhamo’s screen presence proves magnetic, but beyond a point, Pema is granted no emotional veil for the camera to pierce.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Venable’s screen presence never activates anything in the realm of stress or embarrassment.
    — Hal Sundt, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Some in the magic community were unimpressed by O’Dell’s screen presence.
    — Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Her simmering screen presence, filled with raw mistrust reveals — by contrast — the thin atmosphere in the majority of the scenes.
    — Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 15 May 2025
  • Hilaria is a fairly intense screen presence, so much so that her swapping between accents from scene to scene is among the less jarring things about her performance here.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Crowe himself, as usual, is the best thing in the film, once again upgrading less than optimal material with his indelible screen presence.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024
  • To those in Paris’s Stade de France, and to the millions more watching on livestreams, there was a magnetism in Thomas’s stage and screen presence.
    — Nick Remsen, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2024

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