Sentence examples for a reliable character from inspiring English sources

He became known as a reliable character actor and started getting movie roles, too.

In the Hollywood blockbuster universe, Mikkelsen has become a reliable character actor with an intriguing mug.

Mr. Lom gained more attention as a reliable character actor than as a suave leading man, although he was both.

Nicol had played a savage Hamlet in England and New York, and he'd become a reliable character presence in such films as "Robin and Marian" and "Excalibur"; in the latter, he'd been a memorably baroque Merlin.

However, the position of the mouth in moderately decayed onychophorans cannot be differentiated, and it is unlikely to be a reliable character in lobopodians unless features that are equally or more decay-prone are present (i.e. the mode of preservation of the deposit facilitates preservation of decay-prone characters).

As his career progressed, Hurt became a reliable character-actor and the move was duly noted by the Academy with a best supporting actor nomination for his role in David Cronenberg's intense drama.

An earlier discussion of the issue, in "On Psychotherapy" (1905), sounds even stranger: One should look beyond the patient's illness and form an estimate of his whole personality; those patients who do not possess a reasonable degree of education and a fairly reliable character should be refused.

This analysis shows that rather than fruit body structure, spore size is generally a more reliable character for segregating species groups in Cyathus.

The definitions of Characella and Poecillastra should therefore prioritize the nature of streptasters and consider the number of categories of microxeas as a less reliable character, since these can be more ambiguous to characterize (cf. new definitions in File S2).

In a review in The New York Times of Paul Osborn's play "On Borrowed Time" at the Hartford Stage Company in 1982, Mel Gussow wrote: "For many years, it has been clear, especially in his performances at the Long Wharf Theater, that Mr. Swetland is an unacknowledged hero of regional theater -- a quietly professional, reliable character actor who adds dimension to a play no matter how small his role".

They noted that Doggett had been portrayed, up to the point in the series, as a "solid and reliable" character.