Sentences with phrase «role as lions»

Judges remain in their traditional role as lions under the throne.

Not exact matches

Look at the atheists playing the role of martyrs as though they have been thrown to the lions.

East, a former board member of the Winemaker Federation of Australia, has been at Accolade since 2012 and had taken an increasing role in the company in recent months, becoming its main spokesman as Accolade snapped up premium business Fine Wine Partners from his former company, Lion's.

The Arsenal midfielder was used in an unusual role by the England manager Roy Hodgson this week, as the new Arsenal striker Danny Welbeck grabbed the headlines by scoring both goals against Switzerland to give the three lions an excellent away victory in their first Euro 2016 qualifying game.

Not only did the Frenchman give Walcott a place in the starting line up for the final two games of the season at the perfect time to bring him to the forefront of Roy Hodgson's thoughts as he prepares the three lions for a friendly game against the Republic of Ireland and a Euro qualifier against Slovenia, but he played him in the centre forward role.

«It will be interesting to see the influence of large predators on smaller predators in other parts of the world, especially the role of the big cats such as jaguars, leopards, lions and tigers,» said co-author William Ripple of Oregon State University.

He was originally set to reunite with his «Australia» co-star Nicole Kidman to play Saroo Brierly's adoptive father in «Lion» (though the dad role wasn't nearly as «showy» as the mom).

First, Australian director Garth Davis (Lion) called and offered him the part of Judas in his biblical epic Mary Magdalene, which stars Rooney Mara in the title role and Joaquin Phoenix as Jesus.

I'm not a big fan of Lion, which, as Lisa Schwarzbaum once wrote of Simon Birch, all but leaps off the screen and cuts onions under your eyes to get you to cry, but I am an unflagging admirer of Kidman's ability to convince you that any role she's playing is exactly what she has always wanted to do.

In other movie news, Donald Glover has been confirmed for the role as Simba in Disney's Lion King remake.

She starred in several major films throughout the mid 1960s to early 1980s such as The Sand Pebbles, Carnal Knowledge, The Wind and the Lion, and Gandhi and received an Academy Award nomination for her role in Starting Over.

Mara can currently be seen in her Oscar nominated role in Carol, and an upcoming untitled Terrence Malick film, as well as Davis» Lion, also produced by See - Saw, scheduled for release at the end of the year.

James Ivory won the Silver Lion and Hugh Grant and James Wilby shared the Best Actor award at the 1987 Venice Film Festival for their roles as posh Cambridge students who fall in love in the face of societal restrictions.

Although Chazelle should get the lion's share of the credit as to why the film works, that shouldn't take away from the phenomenal performances, not only in acting, but also in singing, dancing, and playing instruments, to Crazy Stupid Love and Gangster Squad cast - mates Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, who took over the roles from the originally pitched Emma Watson (who was iffy on the project before ultimately being unavailable) and Whiplash star Miles Teller (who, reportedly, lost the gig trying to stall for a bigger paycheck).

As in the Lion, t.he VVitch, & t.he VVardrobe games, player.s can take t.he roles of differenit character.s from t.he story.