Sentence examples for pull off the role from inspiring English sources

In fact, you don't need a Kylie Minogue physique to pull off the role.

Whether da Vinci would have been able to pull off the role of J. Edgar Hoover is anybody's guess, but the great Italian artist does have one thing in common with the other Leonardo (DiCaprio): he's hitting the silver screen.

Acting wasn't on the radar until Cube, who produced Straight Outta Compton and thought his lookalike son had the presence to pull off the role, popped the question: why don't you play me?

Over a lunch of bottled water at the Four Seasons Hotel -- he does not like to eat during interviews -- Mr. Byrne said he had initially feared he would be unable to pull off the role.

By The New Yorker December 13 , 2011Whether da Vinci would have been able to pull off the role of J. Edgar Hoover is anybody's guess, but the great Italian artist does have one thing in common with the other Leonardo (DiCaprio): he's hitting the silver screen.

After setting her eyes on him, she knew he'd be able to pull off the role physically.

Maybe Timothy Spall could have pulled off the role 30 years ago.

"Amstell does improve … eventually reaching a point where he convincingly pulls off the role of Simon Amstell David Renshawhaw on the new Grandma's House box set.

In an essay in "The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies," Thomas B. Byers — he is a professor of English at the University of Louisville — points out that more mainstream actors like Harrison Ford or Kevin Costner or Tom Hanks could not have pulled off the role of the Dude.

Yet, while Daniel Day-Lewis probably won't be losing any sleep over his future Oscar chances, Amstell does improve across the six episodes that make up series one of Grandma's House, eventually reaching a point where he convincingly pulls off the role of Simon Amstell, former host of Never Mind the Buzzcocks.

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