Sentences with phrase «play unsympathetic»

Despite this, Murray is great in a role that demands he play unsympathetic curmudgeon intent on offending everyone he meets.

Watching Monster - in - Law, I admire the gutsiness of Jane Fonda playing an unsympathetic character who's her own age and looks it (three stars)-- a hysterical, self - centered former TV celebrity who's horrified that her son's marrying a temp and tries to make the woman so miserable she'll flee before the wedding.

Mr. Lewis gamely plays an unsympathetic character, and does capture the cantankerous nature that we've all witnessed in some elderly folks.

As strange as it is for Carell to be playing an unsympathetic cad, it's even stranger for him to become a bland tool of the screenplay.

Not exact matches

Most of us know that these kinds of statements do more harm than good, so we play it safe and refrain from offering any encouragement at all because we don't want it to come out like a robotic and unsympathetic platitude.

In 59 seconds, Reynolds goes from resolute to wronged to confused to contrite, playing with facts and blaming his Housemates, all to mealy unsympathetic effect.

In films from at least 1922, McClary had often played rather unsympathetic characters, i.e., a nasty rustler terrorizing the local settlers in The Lone Rider (1922) and one of the smugglers in Twin Triggers (1926).

(Many young performers would no doubt turn down a role like Daphne, who is so frequently unsympathetic; Robbie's relish in playing her shows her to be more interested in being a serious actress than in merely being liked.)

She played David Tennant «s sister on BBC drama «Spies Of Warsaw,» just led the remake of «The Lady Vanishes» (she's perhaps a little too modern for the role, but proved admirably unsympathetic in the part), and got her badass on in an episode of Charlie Brooker «s «Black Mirror.»

With Kidman now appearing everywhere once again, here she is playing a rather unsympathetic character and bravo to her.

As Trent, he plays the character as much as an unlikable, unsympathetic jerk without feeling like any less of a human being.

As suavely played by Gerard Butler, Clyde proves to be an increasingly - unsympathetic cross of Hannibal Lecter and Paul Kersey, the obsessed protagonist played by Charles Bronson in the Death Wish franchise.

Although today's general audiences may carry romanticized and somewhat outdated myths about what artists are like in their studios, I think they may ultimately be unsympathetic to or even bored by the intellectual and emotional fierceness exemplified in this superb play.

Still, under these parameters that are unsympathetic to SGE, we nevertheless find that SGE can play a substantial role in managing climate risks.