Sentence examples for amusing role from inspiring English sources

Dennison holds his own opposite Neill, who hasn't been tasked with such a gravely amusing role in years.

William Golding's The Inheritors also comes to mind in the creator's attempt to teach his creature language, which leads to an amusing role reversal when Adamu gives peremptory orders to his godhead.

Either he should remain clueless about what he's done and just proud of his dancing (and lord knows the fit Moise has every right to be proud of his skill in this generally amusing role) or actually come out via dance.

While keeping to the theme of orphaned children, Grimes keeps switching tones, leaving Jury to stew in his own moody juices while she dreams up adventures for two lively children of uncertain parentage and concocts an amusing supporting role for Melrose Plant, Jury's aristocrat pal.

Featherstone herself said that audiences feel more at home with simplistic, amusing female roles, such as April de Angelis's Jumpy.

Another particularly choice cut is the anonymous "Ciaccona di Paradiso e dell'Inferno," featuring Mr. Jaroussky in heaven and Mr. Sherwin and Mr. Tampieri, in perversely amusing vocal roles, in hell.

In the Amores he is outrageous and amusing in the role adopted from Propertius, his Corinna being probably a fiction.

Hank Azaria is quite amusing in that role, and some funny grown-up jokes keep things interesting for the parents in the crowd.

If this ageless catwoman, who died at 81 on Christmas Day, was an amusing caricature, the role was fueled by a steady current of anger.

Generally, I find this tantruming amusing, although terrible role modeling for our children.

For most of the way, though, it adheres to the description that the prison warden (Dylan Baker, very amusing in a small role) gives of himself after delivering a scatology-inflected welcoming address to arriving inmates.