Sentence examples for called upon to convey from inspiring English sources

Here she's called upon to convey innocence with attitude.

As Justine, the complicated young bride at the center of Lars von Trier's apocalyptic meditation on depression, "Melancholia," Kirsten Dunst is called upon to convey great depths of anguish with very little dialogue.

In 1944, my grandfather was elected mayor of San Francisco, and when he was called upon to convey the city's compliments to a victorious admiral returning from the Coral or the Philippine sea, he sometimes took me with him in the captain's barge to be piped aboard the deck of a flagship dressed with men in uniform.

Baron had been called upon to modernize the menu — "to convey 'downtown' creativity to the Upper East Side," according to a press release — with such cucina creativa contributions as home-cured sardines and stuffed leg of rabbit.

Employed by a secret military organization during World War II, Helm is called upon to spy, to kill, and to convey military secrets.

Although dialogue is the playwright's primary tool, it cannot always be relied upon to convey what characters are feeling.

I never expected to be called upon to play.

And who would be called upon to serve?

The National Guard was called upon to assist in Delaware and Pennsylvania.

In April, Mr. Russell was called upon to aid his birthplace.

The Premiership may yet be called upon to rule.