Sentence examples for played gentleman from inspiring English sources

He had played Gentleman in that same play in 1952, with Redgrave as Prospero, but now he was a well-received Gonzalo.

Before the train leaves the station, a short message is played, "Gentleman, start your engines!" After departing from the station, the train heads straight to the chain lift hill.

But the Islanders were knocked out by a Devils team playing gentlemen's hockey, with gloves on and checks ending in the skid of skates rather than the echoing thud of body against board.

During the 1913 Australian winter, Collins was part of an Australian team that toured North America, playing Gentlemen of Philadelphia and a combined Canada–United States team.

Josh Lucas, who until Sunday played the gentleman caller in "The Glass Menagerie" on Broadway, will join Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, Emmy Rossum and Mike Vogel in Wolfgang Petersen's remake of the 1972 disaster drama "The Poseidon Adventure, Reuterss reported.

As the old saying goes, "rugby is a hooligan's game played by gentlemen; football is a gentlemen's game played by hooligans".

The old adage might ​say: "Rugby is a thugs' game played by gentlemen, and football is a gentlemen's game played by thugs".

The Cardinals and their fans were depicted as a curious colony of baseball Amish because they prefer solid fundamental play, gentleman superstars such as Stan Musial and success with dignity.

It is a sport for idiots played by gentlemen".

The following year he was stripped of both medals when it was discovered that, in his youth, he had once been paid for playing baseball.The reasoning was simple: money would corrupt sport's purity, so there must be a rigid distinction between amateur sport, played by "gentlemen" for the sheer love of the game, and professional sport.

Remarketing aircraft used to be played by gentlemen's rules, but the recent glut of planes has attracted a new breed of scrappy bottom feeders.