Sentences with phrase «playing elder statesman»

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If Green, the erstwhile locker room leader, has been reduced to playing the role of elder statesman, it may fall on Sanders to establish the team's temperament.

But what makes this race particularly entertaining will be the gung - ho interventions of the party's elder statesmen, with rivalries and bitter divisions likely to be played out in public.

Catsimatidis, who finished second to Joe Lhota in the 2013 mayoral primary, played a mixed role of potential candidate and elder statesman.

Angela Bassett is T'Challa's widowed mother Ramonda; Forest Whitaker is elder statesman Zuri — basically, the Merlin of T'Challa's court — and Daniel Kaluuya (from Get Out) plays border tribe chief W'Kabi, a man of uncertain loyalties.

For example, Siegfried — a brash, cocky teen when he first appeared in Soul Edge — now plays the role of measured, reassuring elder statesman at age 40, and you can see that growth as a man clearly during one particular cutscene.

Variety reports that Forest Whitaker is the latest high - profile actor to sign on to Ryan Coogler's Black Panther movie, where he'll play the role of Zuri, an elder statesman in the Wakandan government.

For example, Siegfried — a brash, cocky teen when he first appeared in Soul Edge — now plays the role of measured, reassuring elder statesman at age 40, and you can see that growth as a man clearly during one particular cutscene.