Sentences with phrase «played dramatic roles»

During her stay at Warners, she also played dramatic roles in such films as Satan Met a Lady (1936) and The Case of the Velvet Claws (1936).

«Our work provides the first real - world experimental evidence that these natural enemies of plants can play a dramatic role in lowering ecosystems» tipping point by killing drought - weakened vegetation and preventing plants from recovering,» said Brian R. Silliman, Rachel Carson Associate Professor of Marine Conservation Biology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

Likewise, the passenger pigeons, whose numbers are estimated to have reached nearly 5 billion at the start of the 19th century, played a dramatic role in shaping the forests they inhabited.

Even though no massive stars form in such clusters, the stars there all produce protostellar jets from their accompanying disks, and these, too, can play a dramatic role in shaping a cluster's fate.

The endocrine system controls the release of our hormones, which of course play a dramatic role in how we feel on virtually every level.

He played a dramatic role as one of the inventors of silicon breast implants in the made - for - television docudrama Breast Men (1997).

With her sparkling presence and sharp timing, the stunning Lombard delighted audiences in some of the greatest screwball comedies ever made, but she spent the early part of her brief career playing dramatic roles and romantic ingénues.

Rogen once again showed that he could play the dramatic role as the betrayed Steve Wozniak, who simply wants Jobs to credit the Apple II Team.

Alongside her, there will also be the one and only Troy Baker, who has a long palmares when it comes to playing dramatic roles in video games.

How you present your current employment situation can play a dramatic role in your appeal to prospective employers.

Once you land your interview, how you respond after the fact can play a dramatic role in whether you are considered for the job.

Not exact matches

Rumors of insider trading and other issues related to the fight between proponents of Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin likely played a role in this week's dramatic drop.

After a while in office, President Obama, got to realize how dramatic the role of religion, more like bigotry, still plays in American society and politics.

Therapies which emphasize role - playing, dramatic action, and concrete problem - solving are generally more consistent with the cognitive styles of the lower classes.

The Bible tells a dramatic story of many actors in which God plays the primary and ultimate role.

Their arrangement has played a major role in the dramatic revitalization a decaying urban neighborhood and has a huge impact on the city's art scene.

The biology teacher, Scopes, whose trial for teaching evolution played so dramatic a role, was an active Methodist supported by fellow church members rather than an anti-Christian scientist.

5) come to acquire the designation because both play eloquent and dramatic roles in celebration of what Yahweh is doing in concrete relationship to the historical existence of Israel.

Thus, FALCPA likely played a major role in the dramatic increase in the number of undeclared allergen recalls.

When asked last year, if he plans on reprising his role, his answer was vague and consisted of many «I don't knows» and a more dramatic, «I'd rather slash my wrists than play James Bond again.»

By his own admission he was at fault for Leicester's second goal, but he bounced back to play a crucial role in our dramatic fightback, with his left foot setting up our third and fourth goals.

Considering the role that you believe play, art, dramatic and academic activities should have in a child's life will help you think about your beliefs.

Or you can try role - playing a solution in shared dramatic play.

This is because two local couples — who happen to live in the same section of the same building on Grand Street — ended up playing very high profile roles in the dramatic, history - making day.

But at the end of the Triassic, dramatic climate change played a role in another mass extinction.

New experiments suggest that minerals the basic components of the rocks could have played starring roles in that dramatic feat.

This allows the environment, experience, and social interactions with other individuals to play a more dramatic role in organizing the cerebral cortex.

The sex hormone - binding globulin increased a dramatic 45-fold during hibernation, suggesting that this molecule must play a central role in the maintenance of hibernation.

He played a key role in the dramatic expansion of Roche oncology enterprise leading to Roche becoming the global leader in oncology.

And the network played a vital role in relaying messages during one of the most dramatic episodes on the island after Maria --- the evacuation of the area around the Guajataca Dam near the western towns of Isabela and Quebradillas.

Transposons play a particularly dramatic role in the maize genome, as the sequence clearly shows.

Many of these dramatic shifts involve climate, planetary and solar system dynamics that until recently played a limited role in exoplanet research.

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Online education and distance learning are seeing dramatic growth and play an increasingly important role at Arizona State University...

The omega - 3 fats EPA and DHA play an important role in your emotional well - being, and research has shown a dramatic 20 percent reduction in anxiety among med students taking omega - 3s.6

For, in reciting these brachot, we are making a bold and dramatic claim — that this wedding is a moment that matters in an ultimate way, that it has a crucial role to play in the redemption of the world.

American actor Franklin Pangborn spent most of his theatrical days playing straight dramatic roles, but Hollywood saw things differently.

Synopsis: Based on real events the dramatic thriller Argo chronicles the life - or - death covert operation to rescue six Americans which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis focusing on the little - known role that the CIA and Hollywood played - information that was not declassified until many years after the event.

As for Clooney, he has been stripped of the self - deprecating character tics that made even his dramatic roles in «Michael Clayton» and «Up in the Air» such joys to behold; here he plays someone so closed - off he's virtually inert.

Occasionally, Pangborn longed for more dramatic roles, so to satisfy himself artistically he'd play non-comic parts for Edward Everett Horton's Los Angeles - based Majestic Theatre; Pangborn's appearance in Preston Sturges» Hail the Conquering Hero (1942) likewise permitted him a few straight, serious moments.

In 1997, he played a more dramatic role as an AIDS - afflicted drag queen who finds romance in Love!

He proved ridiculously endearing as a grizzled, broken - down, beer - swilling little league coach with a marshmallow heart in The Bad News Bears (1976), and further expressed his comic persona in such comedies as 1993's Dennis the Menace, in which he played the cantankerous Mr. Wilson, and the romantic comedy I.Q. (1994), which cast him as Albert Einstein.Though many of his roles were of the comic variety, Matthau occasionally returned to his dramatic roots with ventures such as the crime thriller Charley Varrick (1973) and The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3 (1974).

A love of the dramatic arts had already taken root for the thespian when — at age 12 — he had signed on to play a key role in a local production of Kurt Vonnegut's Happy Birthday, Wanda June, and received an outstanding review from a local critic.

Although he made his name playing ruthless, genteel villains like Die Hard's Hans Gruber and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves» Sheriff of Nottingham, Alan Rickman proved himself equally remarkable in romantic, comic, and good - guy dramatic roles.

Born February 17th, 1954, former model Rene Russo's first dramatic role of note was on the 1987 TV series Sable, in which she played Eden Kendall, the literary agent to a children's author - turned - crimefighter.

As he did with Jonah Hill, Miller will direct an actor known for comedy in a dramatic role, with Steve Carell playing du Pont.

Hammer landed two of his first major roles at polar opposite ends of the dramatic spectrum: one playing the young Christian evangelical minister Billy Graham in actor - turned - director Robby Benson's chronicle of Graham's early life, Billy: The Early Years (2008), and another playing the son of Satan on the small screen fantasy adventure series Reaper.

Yet it's still not quite Oscar - winning caliber (but still worthy of a nomination), and Stiller's playing against type doesn't come off as honest a performance as, say, Michael Keaton, in Clean and Sober (1988), that comic's first dramatic role.

(His first two films were featured at Ebertfest, where Nichols told us that Michael Shannon, who played intensely dramatic roles in his earlier films, brings comic relief to «Mud.»)

Stacy Keach plays hothead Stedenko perfectly, and though he had played mostly dramatic roles in the past, he shows here that he is quite funny in his own right.

Youngster Liam James holds his own against some great actors as the perpetually awkward wallflower, while Steve Carell plays against type in a role that proves he may be a stronger dramatic actor than a comedian.