Sentence examples for play vulnerable from inspiring English sources

He cast Charles Aznavour as the lead, having admired the scrawny singer's ability to play vulnerable in Georges Franju's Head Against the Wall.

His career may have been short on the critical approbation that he craved, but his most memorable and successful performances, first in the nostalgic musical drama Dirty Dancing (1987), then in the Oscar-winning Ghost (1990), made him a superstar, and gave America one of its few leading men who were unafraid to play vulnerable.

As a result, he is a master at playing vulnerable characters and at revealing the vulnerabilities of tough characters, like Jimmy Markum in "Mystic River".

No one else looked or sounded like her; whether playing vulnerable or volatile, she had a playful, uninhibited spontaneity.

Like Ryder, Wood, who also played vulnerable, petite brunettes, did far too much work early on in her career".

Ms. Russell, who played vulnerable charmers in films like "Waitress," acknowledged that subverting this reputation was "what was interesting" about taking on a K.G.B. agent.

She played vulnerable women - doomed, romantic, betrayed, self-sacrificing - and suggested depths of feeling that were rarely there in the scripts of the polished but generally superficial vehicles MGM provided for her.

Temple is almost unrecognisable from her most recent big-screen outing in crime thriller Killer Joe, in which she played vulnerable, child-like Dottie Smith opposite Matthew McConaughey, as a twisted Texan detective.

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But it takes more courage to play someone vulnerable.

Election-year politics, however, could come into play as vulnerable incumbents are challenged on the campaign trail to support immigration reform legislation.