Sentence examples for manager character from inspiring English sources

For "The 15th," a Wire song, a stage manager character carried around stiff dancers like dummies.

— Nick Fox Bloomberg Businessweek: North Carolina tobacco farmers' new best friend: Brad Pitt, whose baseball manager character in the new film "Moneyball" is not only a Twinkie addict but also celebrates the habit of chewing tobacco (despite cancer warnings, smokeless sales are going up even as cigarette sales decline).

Best live music I haven't seen that many bands in New Zealand; I'm similar to Murray, the band manager character I play in Flight of the Conchords - he's never seen a single band in his life, and he's constantly getting the names of bands wrong.

Moviegoers anxious about what urgent email the boss might be firing off while they're sitting in the dark for two unforgivably leisurely hours probably won't be comforted by the sight of Christian Bale's hedge-fund manager character in "The Big Short" sifting through complaints in his inbox from angry clients.

In a hilariously familiar moment, the staid business-manager character bursts from his calm shell, swearing at a teammate who plays badly.

Tavakoli said leaving aside the legal issues in the litigation, profane and pejorative language can tell investors something about a manager's character.

With the exceptions of the hard-working supporting cast — notably J. K. Simmons as a C.I.A. bigwig and the equally reliable and welcome Richard Jenkins as a lovelorn gym manager — the characters have been conceived as variations on self-deluded boobishness.

Samson's wit elevated him from performer to general manager until another character, Management, purchased the carnival (to be renamed Carnivàle) and briefly gave Samson's job to Lodz, a blind mentalist.

"They've shown their character," Manager Joe Girardi said.

He had to fire his manager, defend his character, and talk much more than he ever wanted about Greg LeMond's history of sexual abuse.

Adventures ensue, the first of which sees the brothers cross swords with strutting hotel manager Matt Lucas, whose character delivers the most hilarious accent in the Vic and Bob universe since the pair imagined Lovejoy as a nonsense-talking, part-Geordie/part Comanche warrior.