Sentence examples for playing slight from inspiring English sources

Is he, then, playing slight variations on himself every time he makes a film?

Hope shares the screen with the French comedian Fernandel, then at the height of his international fame, in this bilingual production shot in France; both men are playing slight variations (Bob Hunter and Fernydel) on their actual status as their countries' more or less official national comics.

Cobain rarely played standard guitar solos, opting to play slight variations of the song's melody as single note lines.

Suburbanites new to city play encounter slight modifications to traditional golf etiquette.

And just like those movies we get the Yin and Yang of Scorsese's most successful universes although in this case it is more like the Yang and Yang, with the boys playing only slight but still-distinct variations on the same species of scumbag.

In 1991, Weisz received the Student Drama Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, for her part in the play Slight Possession.

Keyboards are played with slight imperfections that sound as if they were born of frustration.

At first, Strange and Quinn played like slight returns of Clay and Karras: the white guy was damaged goods who managed to come through in the clutch; the black guy was a pillar of strength shaken by the destruction all around him.

"September": In one of her few big movie roles, Stritch played a  slight variation on herself as an emotionally callous matriarch in this 1987 Chekhovian drama from Woody Allen.

In films like "Sweeney Todd, Charlieie and the Chocolate Factory," "Alice in Wonderland" and "Dark Shadows" -- none of which are original works -- Depp seemed to play on slight deviations of the same quirky charisma offset by a few weird hairdos.

Moviefone blames the addictiveness of K-dramas on their pretty aesthetics (beauty products are often used in product placements), their familiar archetypes that are played with slight cultural differences and their over-the-top drama ("makjang" in Korean), a cornerstone of the genre.