Sentence examples for Play a con from inspiring English sources
Mr. Thornton will play a con artist who tries to manipulate a small-town insurance salesman.
Tovey was born to play a con raised on turnips and 18th-century hardship.
Wanted by the Bank of the City of London, the F.B.I., and the N.Y.P.D., the desperate Gregor has one last card to play, a con that may save both his name and Western capitalism.
"The Democrats are play a con game.
"Are we playing a con or a rendition of 'Our Town'?" demands Jake's pal Gordo (Paul Giamatti).
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939) was a W.C. Fields comedy, with Fields playing a con man circus manager and Edgar Bergen as a ventriloquist.
Think of it this way: For a long time the Republican establishment got its way by playing a con game with the party's base.
Others may have spotted him in "Birthday Girl," playing a con man in cahoots with Nicole Kidman, a Russian mail-order bride.
That year she also played a con artist in director David O. Russell's American Hustle and the neighbour of a man who falls in love with a sentient computer operating system in director Spike Jonze's Her.
Midway through the film, the rock star Kiyoshiro Imawano turns up, playing a con man who dresses in a United States Navy uniform and claims to be the nephew of Queen Elizabeth.
Among the great is Stephen Frears's The Grifters, the 1990 neo-noir that saw him break up with the teen genre by playing a con artist fighting Oedipal urges.
