Sentence examples for impossible roles from inspiring English sources

As the screenplay's sour wisecracks fizzle around them, Mr. Fiennes and Mr. Sutherland play their characters without a smidgen of irony or facetious humor, and their performances in impossible roles lend "Land of the Blind" a frisson of gravitas.

Penelope Cruz struggles with an impossible role as Mr. Damon's love interest.

It's an impossible role, it's true, but Wagnerites know not to expect perfection.

Penelope Cruz stuggles with an impossible role as Mr. Damon's love interest.

The tenor Jon Fredric West had to shout and bluster his way through whole stretches of the impossible role of Siegfried.

As for Tessa (an impossible role, two parts Naomi Klein to three parts Sophia Loren), for whom does she work?

If this was because of any technical unevenness – reasonable enough in this nigh impossible role – it merely added to her convincing depiction of passion, haughtiness, fury and regret.

In the impossible role of Freud, Heinz Bennent conveys the burning intelligence behind chilly irony, and his own daughter Anne plays Anna Freud.

"Clearly, competing interests within the U.S.O.C. have placed its C.E.O.'s in an untenable, if not impossible, role," Ward said, playing the victim in his farewell statement.

The night's one impossible role belonged to the dancer Yarmo, who had to fill in the work's many balletic passages alone.

But it's an impossible role in an impossible movie that has no reason for being other than as another pop-culture palliative for a trauma it can't bear to face.