Sentence examples for has done better work from inspiring English sources
Mr. Costner has done better work, but he's fine here.
Almost everyone in the wan comedy "Bringing Down the House" has done better work before, even those making their debut.
Although Jesse has done better work in his own series, Sunny notches up a big one by adding him to her growing stable of docile bone-fetchers.
He is up against two black actors (Will Smith in "Ali" and Denzel Washington in "Training Day", who may split the vote), Britain's Tom Wilkinson for "In the Bedroom", and Sean Penn for "I Am Sam", a fine actor who has done better work.
The director, Carl Franklin, has done better work before, in "One False Move," his brutal neo-noir debut, and in "Devil in a Blue Dress," one of the half-dozen movies before "Training Day" that should have won Denzel Washington an Oscar for best actor.
Ironically, he has done better work in recent years than De Niro or Pacino - his guilt-wracked turn in The Pledge was astonishing - but the sight of him falling back on an arsenal of over-the-top tics, twitches and grimaces in The Departed (a contender for worst-ever Jack Nicholson performance) provides a succinct definition of complacency.
Also on the program were pieces by Victor Quijada and Adam Hougland, both of whom have done better work.
But he has done better, less sprawling work and AMPAS voters may prefer to wait for a more suitable occasion.
The team has done better with pitchers -- Carlos Zambrano, Sean Marshall and Carlos Marmol are assured regular work -- but you don't look at the Cubs' roster and see the home-grown nucleus of a contending team.
