Sentence examples for mastermind playing from inspiring English sources

His prose is flat ("What sadistic game was the Mastermind playing?" Cross wonders), his psychology is crude ("She liked this aura of power," he says about a bank robber; "she really liked the new respect she was suddenly getting"), and he skips over too many procedural details.

Here is a movie with room for not one but two ruthless supervillains: a snarling pit bull played by Jason Statham and a terrorist mastermind played by Djimon Hounsou.

Even less believable is the scene in which Schiller, the criminal mastermind played by Goran Visnjic, meets Marta for the first time and tasks her with handling his next drug shipment.

Parnell, a 66-year-old tax attorney who held a top post at Goldman Sachs, bears little resemblance to Underwood, the conniving political mastermind played by Kevin Spacey.

Sandwiched between grunge phantom Mark Lanegan and clothes-averse bass viking Nick Oliveri, frontman and mastermind Josh Homme played straight man, an unyielding monolith around which the storm could rage.

She later starred in Public Enemies (2009) as the girlfriend of criminal mastermind John Dillinger (played by Johnny Depp), who was responsible for robbing a string of American banks during the Great Depression.

They coaxed vocals from guests like Panda Bear and Julian Casablancas; Chic mastermind Nile Rodgers played guitar on three tracks.

In the hit 1985 counterfeiting movie To Live and Die in L.A., counterfeiting mastermind Rick Masters, played by Willem Dafoe, famously denigrated the police detective he had just killed by stating "your brains are in your ass".

Larry David, known as the mastermind of "Seinfeld," plays Larry David, the mastermind of "Seinfeld".

I'm a mastermind, and I'm playing the game right now".

He could have made a fortune just by playing criminal masterminds, and he was a memorably cruel villain in "Mission: Impossible 3".