Sentences with word «thankless»

Fine performances are included, young Asa Butterfield is commanding throughout but some, like Emily Mortimer, Ray Winstone and Christopher Lee, are wasted in thankless roles.

For your community to run properly, enough of your neighbors will need to volunteer for the difficult and often thankless job of serving on the board.

Aside from making its stars unlikable for far too much of the film, The Internship also wastes the talents of John Goodman, Aasif Mandvi, and Will Ferrell in thankless roles.

Many teachers find balancing the needs of increasingly diverse classrooms made up of learners from increasingly diverse backgrounds to be a difficult and often thankless task — and one that takes precious time away from instructional planning.

Why being a deputy is an excellent way to make sure you do a lot of thankless work and never get the boss» job.

There's no reason why it should run nearly two and a half hours, and even less justification for wasting the considerable talents of its cast, with thankless parts for Jeff Bridges, Channing Tatum, and Halle Berry.

A quick read of the list of individuals below could easily lead most Albertans to determine some of the most thankless jobs in our province indeed belong to leaders of provincial opposition parties.

Caught in the web of thankless supporting roles were Billy Crudup, James Franco, Richard Jenkins, Viola Davis and Hadi Subiyanto as Ketut, the toothless guru.

Fegley, who starred in Pete's Dragon last year, has a pretty thankless task here, lost and alone despite his determination, and not remotely equipped to handle his newfound lack of hearing.

Also in the dock is trusty co-pilot Jeff Skiles (Aaron Eckhart sporting a mighty moustache), while Laura Linney has a rather thankless role as the fretting wife back home on the other end of the kitchen phone.

Being the prime minister's spouse is one of the more thankless jobs in British politics: the previous incum - bent, Cherie Blair, like Sarah Brown a successful professional involved in good causes, had gone from admired role model to object of ridicule and fury.

These two, both researchers at Standard and Poor's, have been working tirelessly to produce an important but utterly thankless bit of research with monotonous, unchanging results.

Everyone acquits themselves well even if the writers push the boat out on thankless female roles by literally pushing the ostensible female lead Mireille Enos out onto a boat where she spends most of the movie looking elegantly stressed.

Dakota Johnson single - handedly holds the frayed threads of Fifty Shades of Grey together, but it's all so thankless.

But, though praised for his somewhat thankless work there, those tepidly received superhero films didn't give Chiklis the film career boost you might have expected.

I think that in order to enjoy a career in mediation, you have to have a high tolerance level for work that can often feel thankless.

The expiration date on female movie stars — their «last f *** able day» (thank you Amy Schumer)-- before they disappear into thankless supporting roles used to be 40 and now it's thankfully extended until about 50.

Quality character actors Sam Shepard and Joe Morton are given thankless roles as government brains.

Despite the current fashion of devaluing the skills and knowledge needed for responsible and competent law practice, the practice of law is in fact an art, a distinguished profession, a sobering responsibility, and a privilege that should only be conferred upon those in society who are properly prepared in every way to shoulder the often times thankless weight and gravity that comes with it.

Not to mention, it's a fairly thankless job.

Basically the same, with the odd exclusive each, leaving the GameCube or Dreamcast as interesting if thankless secondary options.

Sacramento is damn lucky that the likes of Raymond are willing to not only work here, but work their butts off in a largely thankless job.

It's a hard job and pretty thankless at times.

Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome in a way had such thankless parts and they made a lot of very little.

Rachel McAdams» Christine Palmer, Strange's ex and on - again love interest, would be the most thankless character if not for Michael Stuhlbarg's Dr. West, Strange's professional rival, who's discarded halfway through the movie.

We have a relatively thankless job, so rest assured that we work hard each day for the sole purpose of immense compassion for our students.

A combination of school records and administrator reports can inform which teachers should be thanked and rewarded for these usually thankless tasks.

When retired politicians look backgloomily on forty years of thankless struggle over long - forgotten...

His counterpart in the redo is Dylan Walsh who, frankly, has taken on an utterly thankless task.

In another of her strong, thankless performances, Joan Allen (The Crucible, Nixon) does affecting work as Sean's wife.

It's a role that Liam Neeson would have played had there not been a recent hue and cry over yellowface and whitewashing, and so Chan, in the twilight of his action career, is forced into somewhat thankless service in a film that wants to be more like The Fourth Protocol than like Police Story.

You followers of Anti-Evolution are just thankless beings.

Coaching is the ultimate thankless profession, particularly in the Internet era.

The fact is, it is impossible to please everyone, and school food is a near thankless gig for the conscientious.

It's sometimes thankless work and brutal on the body.

Packing a healthy and kid - approved school lunch every day can feel like a huge feat, but with the right organization, some advance planning, and a few simple tips like these, it doesn't have to be a totally thankless chore.

At any rate, the role of Mrs. Erlynne, and that of Meg, are thankless ones, but Barker manages to make both actresses appear unattractive.

The constant churn of daily activities may prove thankless and repetitive for those impatient and unwilling to immerse themselves, but if you surrender yourself to Stardew Valley and dig deeper beneath the surface you'll find one of the best, most impactful games you play this year, homage or not.

This one is about thankless labor.

It claims to praise the mundane, everyday sluggers who plow through thankless jobs from 9 - 5.

Christopher Meloni and Richard Schiff get thankless supporting roles, while Laurence Fishburne competently plays Daily Planet Editor - In - Chief.

Good committee work is also thankless work.