Sentence examples for play stern from inspiring English sources

"The reason I'm in favor of an age limit is not because young players can't play," Stern has said.

"We're troubled by it, because it would be our preference that healthy players play," Stern said in a conference call Wednesday.

Another southern tradition may therefore be in play: stern paternalism imposed by the mostly-white haves on the mostly-black have-nots.Other Wilson residents black and white, rich and poor say the law has nothing to do with race and class.

This impulse to play Stern Father to a muscular millionaire with a borderline personality is weird.

Colbert asked the actor why he thinks he gets typecast in that role, and Simmons had this to say: "You know, I used to think it was just because I'm like a bald guy with a low voice, so I play stern, authoritative figures.

Instead, the Liverpudlian actor David Morrissey, known for playing stern and leathery politicians and tough guys, will be reading an unabridged version.

Leading the choral passages, as the narrator, is the excellent Quentin Earl Darrington, who also has the rather thankless task of playing stern sentinel for the duration of the show, looking on with unspoken concern, tall staff in hand.

This solo offering under his own name finds him alone with an acoustic, playing stern, searching instrumental tracks that own up to influences such as Malian kora music – a fetish he shares with Newsom – the Balkans, Greece and beyond.

The standup comic and sometime actress Janeane Garofalo drops the shtick, more or less, to play a stern Russian Jewish mother in Brooklyn in "Russian Transport," by Erika Sheffer, a new play from the New Group that opened on Monday night at the Acorn Theater.

He'll play the "stern, intense" boss of Brittany Snow's character in the single camera comedy about a group of assistants at a New York law firm and the bosses who drive them nuts.

He also joked his kids make fun of him for always playing "the stern dad".