Sentence examples for play miserable from inspiring English sources

"The director of A Touch of Cloth, Jim O'Hanlon, said, 'You know, you've got such a lovely smile and you play miserable fuckers all the time.' But my characters are either really strong, miserable or tortured".

The Washington baseball team was playing miserable baseball.

Those who constitute an orchestra may be happy when they play but miserable otherwise.

John Gross, writing for the Daily Telegraph, said: "The play is miserable stuff - which is not to say, current fashions being what they are, that I can't foresee Sarah Kane enjoying a successful career".

And they inspired a stealth campaign to reverse the Hollywood superstitions that a "movie is only art if it ends badly, and that you'll only win an Academy Award if you write or direct a movie about misery or play someone miserable," as she put it.

Catherine Keener, as usual, plays a miserable, middle-aged woman whose marriage is falling apart.

The Buccaneers (4-10) lost for the eighth straight time and played a miserable first half that did nothing to help Coach Raheem Morris make a case for keeping his job.

But when they played another miserable game, losing by 28-10, everything spun back to the hot button topic of Fassel's job.

Jeter -- who had played a miserable game on Friday night, with four hitless at-bats and two errors -- tied the score with a seventh-inning single.

Playing in miserable conditions as Hurricane Isabel was about to hit the Philadelphia area, the Phillies fell behind, 3-0, when the Marlins scored three runs off the Phillies' starter, Kevin Millwood, in the fourth.

In his latest vehicle, "Yes Man" (which opened this month), Mr. Carrey plays a miserable crank who embarks on a self-improvement regimen that compels him to say yes to everything.