Sentence examples for has the thankless task from inspiring English sources

Mr. Hamilton, who is terrific at playing cads, here has the thankless task of being the blandest of good guys.

Poor Ms. Hennessy has the thankless task of casting moony glances at her boss-lover -- and the equally thankless task of elucidation through stating the obvious.

Poor Dr Faraday has the thankless task of trying to convince the Ayres that every odd sight and sound and incident has a rational explanation.

Mrs Albright got a heroine's welcome in Prague, but she also has the thankless task of persuading Russia that, as she puts it, "this is not the old NATO".

Mark Coffin has the thankless task of portraying two cartoonish stereotypes — an arrogant sport fisherman named Chuck and a tone-deaf senator who advises the net-mending Bonackers to take up tailoring.

Prince's checked drive went only as far as mid-off, and when Amit Mishra, who has the thankless task of trying to fill the void left behind by Anil Kumble, produced a peach of a googly to see off AB de Villiers, architect of an epochal win in Perth, the crowd sensed an early finish.

The employees who are left will have the thankless task of coping with lawsuits and leases.

Meanwhile, the world was plunged into chaos, and her father (who had the thankless task of symbolising the old oil-guzzling world order) was beaten to an impotent pulp.

In November of that year it was he who had the thankless task of concluding peace with the Americans and formally acknowledging their independence and British defeat in the Treaty of Paris.

Mikhail Petrenko, a bass, had the thankless task of delivering that narration in heavily accented English and came across as alternately stiff and, thanks partly to the amplification, overwrought, even for a tyrant.

Bale had made it clear from the outset that he had no intention of going through the motions here and, at times, it was difficult not to feel sympathy for Ari Skulason, the Icelandic left-back who had the thankless task of trying to stop a man who was hell-bent on wreaking havoc every time he received possession.