Sentences with phrase «excel at play»

These cats excel at play time and are easily taught to play fetch.

Thornton excels at playing the self - righteous asshole, and the ensuing tête - à - têtes between him and Bullock result in some entertaining moments of political puppetry.

MICHAEL SHANNON, «99 HOMES» Shannon has always excelled at playing the shifty villain, but he took that ability to new heights as the capitalist man working the system and repossessing homes in Florida.

Walton Goggins is a very reliable Hollywood character actor who excels at playing varmint - like cops (for example in TV's The Shield) or the kind of weasel - faced cowboys who will always shoot you in the back.

I haven't always been enamored of Hugh Grant's films, or of Drew Barrymore's for that matter, but they both seem to excel at playing sympathetic characters desperately looking for love and success, In Music and Lyrics, both of them ingratiate themselves sufficiently that we like them in their roles.

He excels at playing the over-the-top immature moron, which he has played in both Pitch Perfect movies as well as his Workaholics persona, a TV show in which he co-created and stars.

Though it's been awhile since Will Ferrell did something that really made me laugh, and Zach Galifianakis has failed to prove why he's so popular, the two actors excel at playing big, dumb characters, and anyone familiar with director Jay Roach's Austin Powers films knows that he loves that brand of goofball comedy.

The actress excels at playing a schoolteacher at odds with her inner turmoil in the French director's deadpan comedy.

Cast: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Parker Sevak, Gael García Bernal, Michael Chernus Director: Sara Colangelo (Little Accidents) Why It's Great: Maggie Gyllenhaal excels at playing messy characters.

One of the best character actors in current US cinema — he was Brian Wilson's domineering dad in Love & Mercy — Camp excels at playing nondescript, careworn, middle - aged men, and his presence is one of the touches that make Midnight Special so distinctive.

The movie walks a fine line between silly and stupid, and although it veers into the latter far too often, it's no surprise why director Jay Roach cast the two comedians, because they excel at playing these types of buffoonish characters.

Like in Lost in Translation, he excels at playing the fish out of water.

In fact, it excels at playing with children, and households with little kids should have no fear of bringing home one of these pups.

Her assertiveness and competitive nature enable her to excel at playing matchmaking between great candidates and awesome companies.

Not exact matches

Just like you shouldn't expect to excel or be perfect at tennis if you've only played for 500 hours, the same thing is true for being an entrepreneur.

goodness i can't believe it people will still defend him.You know something when Giroud misses many chances like at Monaco i did not criticize him even based on that you know why?its because he has always not been clinical.The only way a team can improve is by indentifying its problems and solving them.Arsenal has Giroud as the main cf and Welbeck as backup to him.Giroud has done well scoring some goals some too important but collectively he does more harm than good.Do not use moments to judge a player judge him based on content.Giroud does not excel in many games than he excels in games.As a main cf you need to be consistent.I see people here saying Giroud can not dribble he cant do this he cant do that but its a bit crazy to criticize him for that because every player has his own style.Giroud limitations as a player costs arsenal and will cost us a lot.Most importantly his poor finishing which has cost us several times.Not good enough.His style of play is ok for us but a striker who can take on players and run behind defences very well would make us very strong and also should be clinical.For Welbeck he needs to works on his finishing and composure by doing the basic things right.He rushes infront of goal too much.For now he is just above average.However he can excel if he works on improving.Giroud and Welbeck will always be a pain in arsenal's neck for most part.Some will call me stupid but hey at least i want to analyze the problem.People may support Giroud or Welbeck to lead the line next season but as the saying goes if you fool me once shame on you but if you fool me twice shame on me.Will you let Giroud and Welbeck fool you again?

Everyone goes on about Kante and yeah, he's a good industrious hard worker but he excelled at Leicester because they had a unique and regimented approach to how they played football and how the whole team acted as a unit, which made his job much easier and conversely, the other players jobs were easier too when considering his role in the set up.

The main difference in the game was having pacey players on the wings and at CF with Ozil and Cazorla playing centrally where they excel.

In order to win the EPL Arsenal need all the players playing at the position where they can excel.

If we start this season with those two in our starting 11 it will be a clear sign from this organization that nothing has changed and that we will never get it right until both Kroenke and Wenger are gone... neither one of these players should still be with our club at this point because they represent the settling half - measures that have plagued this team for a number of years... this is what I call the «no man's land» of the soccer world, where teams don't have enough talented young players, unlike a Monaco or Dortmund, because they have lost the plot from an organizational standpoint... they are so reliant on one individual to run the whole operation that their once relevant scouting department has become so antiquated that it can no longer find those hidden gems it once had... furthermore, when you leave all decision - making to a manager who despises any dissenting opinions, your management team becomes little more than a stagnant group of «yes men» and no new ideas emerge... so instead of developing a team with the qualities necessary to excel in a particular system, you continually make half - brain purchases year after year to stifle dissent from the ticket - buying public, then try desperately to finagle together a lineup regardless of what would make positional sense... have you ever heard of a team who plays players out of position so often... of course not because that manager would likely be fired and never work for a team of any consequence ever again

I want a back - to - basics centre back who excels at defending first - & - foremost at Arsenal, that rules out Stones - he's made his reputation by being very accomplished at dribbling the ball out of defence and playing it forward.

The emotion of the night was allowing them to put forth a little extra on their jumpers and had them playing at a speed that neither Team excels in..

That's a big reason why we saw Jabari playing more as a defensive 3, which also made sense because he's lacking in the areas where Giannis excels and OK at the things Giannis is less good at (ie moving feet one - on - one on perimeter against wings).

The 26 year old has excelled at the back for the White Hart Lane side, both at centre back and at left - back, but has also been very effective going forward, scoring crucial goals and pushing the play forward.

@jibber... I don't know where you guys get this Ramsey excelled because of Ozil... Ramsey excelled because he stood up to be counted... He was playing very well at the back end of 2012/2013 season, in 2013/2014 he just continued from where he had left off..

The most important thing, however, is the fact the Arsenal have few great options at striker but have players who can play RW — Ox and Sanchez excel there.

yeah but he plays AM for Juve, and this is where he excels, not at DM.DM is a specialized position, thats why Coquelin does so well there because he recognises this and remains disciplined.Vidal has that instict to go 4ward which would make him less disciplined.The last thing we need is another AM

... but Zach Martin was nominated All - Pro, Cowboys made it to the playoffs, and plays one of the hardest positions to excel at while «transitioning» to the NFL.

I'm not sure where we're going to find a replacement, some who can play with both feet, pass long and short, score goals, assist, see spaces and passes that others don't, the only thing he doesn't excel at is tackling.

Schneiderlin can play the holding role how - ever personally I believe he has grown past that and he applies his experience into the B2B role which helps him to excel at what he has been doing the past couple years.

I think I do not have to belabour analysis of the rest of the players who will be playing at places we know they have excelled already.

Your sidebar on athletes who have excelled with diabetes failed to mention the first known diabetic to play at the highest international level — Bill Talbert.

She played soccer and excelled at gymnastics, but when she began to sprout, her choices were largely made.

He is a good offensive center who excels at pick and roll and plays average to above average defense, depending on the match - up.

He excelled at both water polo and basketball at Coronado High School and received a water polo scholarship to UC Irvine to play under Coach Ted Newland.

All the best to xhaka in excelling at arsenal and being that midfield enforcer to stamp authority on the gunners play!

A Barca player can play multiple roles, they may excel at a particular role but they are intelligent enough to cover each other and have awareness of the other roles.

I feel that we should play him at the position where he has excelled the most, and not in the wings.

Rather, you can look fondly upon those ridiculous knick - knacks with the pride of knowing you risked moderate injury, and actually put in the work, to play and excel at this silly game that, for whatever reason, is incredibly easy to love.

Melinda demanded her son keep his grades high in addition to playing saxophone and trumpet (in middle school) and excelling at football, wrestling, track and soccer * in high school.

While good players may excel at individual skills like shooting, dodging, or 1v1 play, only the great players fully understand the team skills which make up the majority of the game.

With Arsenal sitting in a lowly 8th position in the Premier League table and with us playing catch up to Borussia Dortmund in our Champions League group and having been knocked out of the Capital One Cup by Southampton, you might think it strange for me to say that Arsenal have excelled at anything so far this season, but as a tactical stats report on Arsenal.com shows, we certainly have.

Another goalkeeper who excelled at both sports was Ron Nicholls, who played first class cricket for Gloucestershire as well as keeping goal for Bristol Rovers, Bristol City and Cardiff City amongst others.

Henry Johansen, who played for Vålerenga and was capped by Norway prior to the Second World War, was also a dab hand at Ski Jumping and was awarded the Egebergs Ærespris, a prize awarded to Norwegian athletes who excel in more than one sport, in 1938.

For a short spell, which included the 3 - 0 win at Everton, he excelled at left - back, the position in which he played for his country at the last World Cup, where he came to Louis Van Gaal's attention.

Quaresma's early promise saw him move to Barcelona in 2003 - 04 but after a disappointing spell at the Camp Nou, he returned to Portugal to play for Porto, where he excelled for four seasons.

While it was his defensive actions that impressed last season (125 tackles and 158 interceptions — the highest totals in the whole division) Kante excelled at times playing in a box - to - box midfield role due to his lung - busting stamina and eagerness to press high up the pitch.

Mertesacker, of course, is good at building play, and his partnership with Koscielny excels in that area simply because he plays shorter, tempo setting passes, while Koscielny plays between the lines.

I have never been one of those adults who excelled at physical play.

There are some adults, often, but not always, Dads, who seem to just naturally excel at this kind of physical play, but few children get as much as they need of this kind of play.