Sentences with phrase «plays blanche»

Vivien Leigh plays Blanche DuBois, Stanley's fragile, sensual, haunted prey.

Clearly we need to start organizing public tournaments with cheesecake and wine, and as long as I get to play Blanche we won't have to fight over the character cards.

Blanchett has played Blanche DuBois in «A Streetcar Named Desire» on stage, and in «Blue Jasmine,» which has many allusions to that play, she is playing a variant on Blanche.

Not exact matches

Suppose, in a kind of contented abstinence, we were to refrain from trying to understand more of the landscape before us than the landscape cared to display for us, that we were willing to follow the bend of bough and straggle of gravel and tilt of pole wherever the bend and the straggle and the tilt chanced to take us, that we concerned ourselves not with pattern or profit or even pleasure but merely with watching like a token sentinel in safe country, that we gave our eyes a quiet carte blanche and permitted our minds to play at liberty over the face of an untouched terrain?

Marshall Auerback, an international financial strategist, says we have become a «Blanche Dubois economy» (so named after the leading character in the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire) heavily dependent on «the kindness of strangers.»

Are you really naive enough to believe that Wenger would bring anyone into this current locker room that is going to be given a strong voice... have you not been watching, listening or reading about our club for years... Lehman is a blind Wenger follower, which is the only reason he was even considered... just for a second think of all the strong personalities that have played for this club that have never been seriously considered even though they have expressed legitimate interest in participating in the coaching process... even worse, think of all the former greats who aren't even allowed on the same pitch as Wenger because they have offered their advice and / or criticism to the infallible one... I dare you to find a manager that has distanced himself from his former players as much as this man... it's the very reason why only one player I can think of has ever returned to play for Wenger and that was Flamini, which was hilarious considering we were desperately looking for a top quality defensive midfielder but Wenger could somehow find no one better than Flamini in the whole wide world... let's face it this club was simply trying to appease it's disgruntled fans by declaring that Wenger would no longer be given Ca rte Blanche when it came to the backroom staff so they probably asked him to give them a list of those who he would allow in the locker room... on that list he wrote Lehman, Pires and Bergkamp, likely because the first two are the only former players who haven't publicly questioned his horrible decision - making and the last one because he won't get in an airplane

The team was owned by a group headed by Barron Hilton, the hotelman, and some say that its name was a play on the Hilton corporation's credit card, Carte Blanche, as in «charge it.»

To keep saying that these incidents have a greater chance of happening to Arsenal because «of the way that they play», and «anyway — Arsenal used to stick their foot - in when Viera et al were playing for them», is utter nonsense and has actually given dangerous carte - blanche and license for it to continue as it does.

Her designs are very architectural and the way she plays with materials and shapes is absolute joy for the eyes (check out the Blanche booties I'm drooling over).

Three years later, he earned widespread acclaim for his leading role in Patrice Leconte's Ridicule, in which he starred as an 18th century nobleman who learns to play a delicate and deadly game of wit at the court of Versailles.Born on Tahiti in 1958, Berling studied acting at a Parisian drama school located on la rue Blanche and made his stage debut in 1982.

Her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in the latter play earned her the Critics» Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress of 2009.

Other omissions are painful but understandable: the extravagant, stuttering queen Anthony Blanche has been reduced to a cameo; young Cordelia barely registers; Ryder's father, played by John Gielgud on TV, has lost his best scenes.

On stage, she played Stella to Rachel Weisz «s Blanche in the Donmar Warehouse production of «A Streetcar Named Desire,» and since starred as Karin in the stage version of Ingmar Bergman «s «Through A Glass In Darkly» in London, and took the title role back at the Donmar, opposite Jude Law, in Eugene O'Neill «s «Anna Christie» last summer.

That effectively removes all content barriers and gives players carte blanche to explore the entire world and play with anyone without the pesky level restrictions getting in the way.

Denial is a River, along with Nancy Rubins» MoMA and Airplane Parts..., evoke the state of socio - political conflicts that have engulfed global affairs and play on the anxieties that have emerged over the last five years: the American government's carte blanche subscription to corruption; the pacification of its citizens with conspicuous consumption; militarism; domestic spying; terrorism.