Sentence examples for con played from inspiring English sources
That time began with Stanley Kramer's The Defiant Ones (1958), which has Poitier on the run from the chain gang, while handcuffed to a racist fellow con, played by Tony Curtis.
Consisting almost entirely of luminescent day-for-night photography, it's the story of an escaped con (played by Dennis O'Keefe) and the two women who love him (Ms. Hunt was one; Claire Trevor was the other), and features, among other pitch-black set pieces, a villain (Raymond Burr) who disfigures his girlfriend with a flaming dessert, and a furious midnight brawl in a seaside taxidermy shop.
Aspiring young director Con, played powerfully and woefully by Adam Magill, rampages against the art created by his mother's generation while nubile young actress, Nina wrestles with aging Hollywood star and Con's mother, Emma Carrie Pafffforfor the affections of renowned novelist Trig(Johnny Moreno).
Con: Playing against the Warriors and the Rockets in the playoffs every year.
The most compelling figure so far is a supporting character, the sarcastic ex-con played by Colin Cunningham.
More recently, Mann cast Farina in the HBO horse-racing drama Luck as a bodyguard and adviser to an ex-con played by Dustin Hoffman.
Based on a series of Saturday Evening Post articles, the potent Underworld U.S.A. (1961) sets an ex-con (played by Cliff Robertson) off on a lifetime of vengeance against the crime syndicate for the murder of his father.
"The Limey" tells a simple, familiar story -- a British ex-con played by Terence Stamp arrives in Los Angeles to avenge the death of his daughter, which he believes was caused by a shady music producer played by Peter Fonda.
Now Carroll, whom Conner played with at Golden State, Houston, and New Jersey, is no longer his teammate.
Jets safety Brodney Pool said Conner never led with the crown of his helmet and the special teams coach Mike Westhoff said Conner played "the kind of football that the N.F.L. promotes.
Based on the true story of the Hatton Garden heist in 2015, James Marsh's film tells of a group of aged ex-cons, played by Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Tom Courtenay and Ray Winstone, who team up with a youngish tech whiz (Charlie Cox) to steal £100m in cash and jewels from a series of safety deposit boxes.
