Sentences with phrase «too small a role»

Twenty - five years ago LDTs played too small a role in medical practice for the FDA to pay them much attention.

Much of the action seems grafted on almost as an afterthought, and Batman (Keaton) plays far too small a role in the proceedings; Burton clearly identified more with the Joker (Jack Nicholson) and apportioned screen time as such.

Great supporting actors are largely wasted in much too small roles, namely Claude Rains and Farrow's wife, Maureen O'Sullivan.

Laurie Metcalf («Lady Bird») and Octavia Spencer («The Shape of Water») join them, along with «Darkest Hour» «s Kristin Scott Thomas, who, frankly, has too small a role to justify the nomination, let alone a win.

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Or is the whole thing moot because it will cannibalize Covington's likely best position as a small 4 and / or complicate Simmons» role and / or mess up our offensive spacing too much anyway?

Sanchez is too small to play the ST role and should be given a free role.

«Incredibly small groups of atoms, much too small to display exact statistical laws... play a dominating role in the very orderly and lawful events within a living organism.

The same plague of us - or - them absolutism that has infested the small community of self - described «climate skeptics,» wrecking any chance they could have played a positive role in critiquing mainstream climatology, now threatens to overwhelm the much larger «safe food» movement, too.

From there, no role was too small for the respected talent, ranging from the small screen again in Lovejoy and the cult Sharpe series to big screen efforts as diverse as David Fincher's Alien 3 and Aussie comedy Strange Bedfellows.

If anyone is disappointed with the small and short - lived role of Black Tom in this universe, Wernick and Reese don't seem too concerned with making sure this outcome sticks.

One of the most reliable versions of this list exists only in the brain of a Stasi agent known as Spyglass (the fantastic actor and Mike Leigh favorite Eddie Marsan, almost completely wasted in a colorless and too - small role).

He killed it in that role in Too Late and again shines as a hard - drinking private dick in Ian and Eshom Nelms's Small Town Crime.

Harry Dean Stanton (Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Wild At Heart) does an exceptional job with a role that is much too small.

Another veteran actor, Jane Fonda, has a small role in the movie, and she too is very good in her bit part.

Ultimately, Jackson's role may be too small and Bardem's previous win in the category too recent for either to gain enough traction.

Although too much emphasis is placed on Faris» unique comic presence, the supporting males have promise, even if Community's Joel McHale, Parks and Recreation's Chris Pratt and Aziz Ansari, and The Office's Martin Freeman are squandered in small roles.

Even the smaller roles, filled by Peter Coyote, Aaron Eckhart, and other performers too numerous to name, are played professionally and memorably.

I guess it's really difficult since her role in Nine is too small and according to some people, unimpressive.

The IMDB listing looks pretty diverse, but I realize that it's listing a lot of smaller roles too.

Not content with reprising the roles of Clark and Ellen Griswold in the upcoming Vacation sequel / reboot, it seems we could be seeing Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo reuniting on the small screen too.

He looks old here, made up with a gray beard and wizard robes, aside from his introductory scenes, he doesn't really get time or space to develop his Taoist Gandalf character, nor does he have much opportunity to show off his fighting skills, given the supernatural nature of the action (Lam Ching - ying gets such a chance in a too - small cameo role as «The Purple Taoist»).

The small roles are well cast, too, with Elizabeth Debicki's Jordan Baker as a standout.

Any successes arise from Bateman's deft hand at both comedy and nuanced feeling, Driver's charisma and, in a too - small role as Phillip's girlfriend, Connie Britton proving she should get starring parts too.

Cast: Kevin Hart, Josh Gad, Kaley Cuoco - Sweeting, Ken Howard, Olivia Thirlby, Dan Gill, Affion Crockett, Jorge Garcia, Aaron Takahashi, Alan Ritchson, Corey Holcomb, Colin Kane, Ignacio Serricchio, Jenifer Lewis, Mimi Rogers, Cloris Leachman, Whitney Cummings, Nicky Whelan Small roles and cameos: Joe Namath, Ed «Too Tall» Jones, John Riggins Director: Jeremy Garelick Screenplay: Jeremy Garelick, Jay Lavender Review published January 19, 2015

Giamatti manages to turn his small role into a fun one, but he has too little to do to redeem this flick.

Richard Attenborough: an escaped lunatic in A Bridge Too Far (1977) John Carpenter: his longest cameo appearance was as Bennett in The Fog (1980) Terry Gilliam: directed himself in bit roles in Jabberwocky (1977), Brazil (1985), and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988); he also directed himself as a member of the Monty Python troupe in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), and The Meaning of Life (1983) Ron Howard: small cameo roles in Night Shift (1982), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), and A Beautiful Mind (2001) Lawrence Kasdan: Devo's (River Phoenix) lawyer in I Love You To Death (1990) Elia Kazan: Mortuary Assistant in Panic in the Streets (1950) Stephen King: in his lone directorial effort Maximum Overdrive (1986) Spike Lee: cameos (and some larger roles) in many of his own films, including: She's Got ta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo» Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), Summer of Sam (1999), and 3 A.M. (2001) Terrence Malick: an unexpected visitor at door, with blueprints, in Badlands (1973)- credited as «Caller at Rich Man's House» Robert Redford: the Narrator in A River Runs Through It (1992) Rob Reiner: a helicopter pilot in Misery (1990) M. Night Shyamalan: Dr. Hill at the hospital in The Sixth Sense (1999), a Stadium drug dealer in Unbreakable (2000), deadly driver Ray Reddy in Signs (2002), and Guard at Desk in The Village (2004) Steven Soderbergh: small cameo roles in Schizopolis (1996), Ocean's Eleven (2001) Oliver Stone: an officer with a phone in his hand in a US base's bunker when it is blown up by a suicide bomber in Platoon (1986)

Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man) deserves notice too; he's a great character actor that adds the smallest touches to make a pretty small role noticeable.

Nathan Fillian is also pitch - perfect in a small supporting role, although he isn't given too much to do.

She had a small role in Damon's «The Martian,» too, as well as last year's all - female rebooted «Ghostbusters.»

As a local sheriff with an eye for Ruth, Ben Foster is excellent and, in a too - small role as a grizzled shopkeeper, Keith Carradine proves himself yet again to be one of our finest performers.

Characteristically wonderful, too, is Laura Dern, in a smaller role as one of Dodd's acolyte / benefactors.

Ken Jeong's character has worked well in small doses throughout the series, however here he too plays a much larger central role and while he does add some humour here and there, he often overplays it, becoming more like Jar Jar Binks than the comedic anecdote.

I hope that, through crunching data and sharing the findings, I can play a small role in informing all the folks who are working to improve public education, especially for the kids who were like me not too long ago.

To fill both roles, the Symbioz is not too big but not too small, measuring 15.4 feet long, 6.5 feet wide, and 4.4 feet tall.

No doubt the Tacoma's relatively light weight and comparatively small wheels (16 inches, versus 18 on the Tundra and 17 on the 4Runner) play a role, too.

While market capitalization may not matter too much for small investors, it can play a role in the types of companies that you will see.

Causes While genetics play a small role in feline obesity, themost common causes include having a sedentary lifestyle and consuming too many calories.

These creatures play an intriguing role in the game at the moment because killing them will net you a small amount of XP, but it's not worth your time actively hunting them all versus chasing the bounty or murdering other players, nor are they particularly dangerous because you can scout around them provided you don't make too much noise.

Chromehounds was nice but I wouldn't call it great.The environments were sparse (a notable trend in From Software games), the assembly system was prone to abuse (cock blocking), and while I generally lift my nose at anyone who complains a game is «too slow» I do have to to admit that the weight to speed ratio seemed skewed.A smaller nitpick that got to me was that the heavy gunner role felt underdeveloped when it came to the mechanics involved or more precisely the lack there of, using only your eyes and your misses to judge where to aim was jarring in immersive sense (they have giant robots but no laser range finders or even an reticle on the screen to give some form of estimation of where to aim) and felt like an after thought.As usual, From Software had a pretty cool idea but failed to apply the extra level of polish that would push the game to greatness.

We frequently see teams trying to make a massively ambitious game with far too few people, or overly large teams with unnecessary roles making small games.

The biggest issue with small vs large trees is typically the influence of tree size on ring characteristics, but the things you mention can play a role too.

It is not too small, however, that it shouldn't play a huge role in every and all discussions of the new regulations.

The CLAs advised against including this statement in the SPM, noting that: the research is currently inconclusive; overestimation of the models is too small to explain the overall effect and not statistically significant; and it is difficult to pinpoint the role of changes in radiative forcing in causing the reduced warming trend, with Co-Chair Stocker referring to this issue as an «emerging science topic.»

And while small appliances have roles to play in the connected kitchen, too, we expect to see more integration from food producers to push forward a more fully integrated kitchen first.

That's something of an indication that users aren't seeing a need to spread devices around the home (or perhaps the young generation's migration to cities and their small apartments is playing a role here, too.)

«Bitcoin transaction fees on the other hand do play a role when depositing or withdrawing money, so transactions shouldn't get too small, either,» Eschenburg added.

The docks too are a major employer, with the Maritime Coastguard Agency taking on entry - level surveyors and engineers, while creative types may find trainee roles at smaller companies such as Imagine Publishing.