Sentence examples for playing soberly from inspiring English sources

Robbie steals the movie from most of her co-stars, but the real scene-stealer is Viola Davis, playing soberly dressed federal apparatchik Amanda Waller: it's an excellent, coolly menacing performance.

First came the rallies — boisterous, angry, often bluntly satiric works that turned politicians into piñatas with cartoon faces ("Embedded" in New York; "The Madness of George Dubya" in London); then the town-hall plays — more soberly journalistic dramas like David Hare's "Stuff Happens".

Second year of university I decided I was my own man that alcohol wasn't a curse, that it was a vice, that I was better than that, that I could control it if I knew the size of it, and also it's really fucking hard to make friends when you just sit in your dorm room soberly playing Xbox alone.

"I'll give you a better infection!" The pair then tumble into a trough of what appears to be corn starch as Hillary giggles, "I'm charging you $4.95 a minute for this!" And a play-by-play announcer soberly intones, "Once again, Guy's not afraid to ask the hard questions".

Q returned to the series in Skyfall after being absent for two films, but was played rather more soberly by Ben Whishaw.

There was such a variety of behavior on display at these parties that when he came home and lay down on the bed, finally removing his sunglasses for the evening, he would soberly play back for himself his insufficiencies.

I'm holding back only because "Momentum Deferred" was such an info-dump, and played a fraction too soberly".

It is they, not he, who have loosened the linchpin of the Atlantic Alliance.They have so played their hand as to cause Washington soberly to suspect collusion between Britain and France (ready, as it seems there, to stop at nothing to get back on to the canal bank) and Israel (driven desperate by Cairo's repeated boasts that "In two years' time we shall be strong enough to wipe Israel out").

Ms. Reza is perhaps the most volatile as Ines: denigrated by the obnoxious Hubert (played by Stephane Freiss), she drunkenly denounces him, only to become soberly demure.

It's the story of a young woman of a romantic temperament (played by Hanna Schygulla) who, at age seventeen, marries a prosperous but soberly earnest government official (Wolfgang Schenck) and soon begins an affair with a flashy, dashing officer (Ulli Lommel), resulting in a wide spectrum of intimate tragedies.

As we play pin the tail on the donkey for the betrayal of the free market, we must reflect soberly on how it was in fact an activist government that drove us into this cul-de-sac and attached a collective anchor to the ankles of Americans who were already treading water.