Sentence examples for playing wise from inspiring English sources

Nancy Marchand, the distinguished character actress who excelled at playing wise and imperious authority figures -- newspaper publishers, queens, grande dames and a madam -- and who achieved perhaps her greatest fame as the domineering mother of a mob boss in the television series "The Sopranos," died on Sunday at her home in Stratford, Conn., one day short of her 72nd birthday.

Mr. Spade ("Just Shoot Me") has a gift for playing wise-cracking cynics and can be quite funny.

By not rejecting out of hand the UN's push for a negotiated settlement and giving Mr Assad a chance to fail, the Council is playing wiser politics than usual.Pressure on Mr Assad is growing elsewhere, too.

Having played wise Nestor for so long, his reward is a role pioneered by the above-mentioned Inspector Callahan.

Game play wise, it's a first-person stealth shooter that shifts into third person when you take cover, which is useful both in firefights and for sneaking.

Mr. Burch, playing a wise man, watched on bended knee.

"I'm not going to go in there and chew out the manager about playing time," Wise said.

At the start of this series Smith was the one playing the wise old pro, just as Hussain had been all those years ago.

He turned it instead into his first play, "Wise Child," which was a success in London, starring Alec Guinness, in 1967.

Mickelson is in his ninth Ryder Cup and has never before won two matches on the same day, but in playing the wise-cracking old sergeant to Bradley's gung-ho new recruit he was a player reborn.

Harmon had to warn Chase against playing a "wise-ass" the way he often does in his roles, since the character of Pierce is a rather pathetic figure who is normally the butt of the joke himself.