Sentence examples for shady role from inspiring English sources

In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories, Mycroft is the intellectually superior yet lazier Holmes sibling, who has a shady role in the British government.

Back in December, owner Peter Bacanovic, who rose to rather undesirable prominence for his shady role in the Martha Stewart insider-trading scandal, decided to sell the Upper East Side home, seeking a "change" with the asking price of $5.85 million.

We've seen Jimmy Nesbitt in all kinds of shady roles, but none so sinister as last week.

By 1934, the building was a rooming house run by a shady character named Madeline Tully, and ready for its supporting role in the Rubel Ice Corporation job.

A thousand convictions per year may sound like a lot, but consider the size of the pre-crisis mortgage market and the large role shady mortgage originators played in it.

The production was directed by playwright and film director David Mamet, who also cast Jay in prominent character roles, usually shady or sinister in nature, in motion pictures such as House of Games (1987), The Spanish Prisoner (1997), and The Heist (2001).

But last week the owner of one of Turkey's most widely read daily newspapers, Sabah, was sent to an Istanbul prison after appearing in a special security court not for his views but for his alleged role in shady business dealings.

Groucho and Chico take on the roles of shady lawyer Flywheel (Erik Liberman) and shifty assistant Ravelli (Jared Miller), respectively.

His theatre career climaxed with his first musical role, as the shady but charming musical-instrument salesman of The Music Man, a virtuoso performance for which Preston won a Tony Award.

On balance, this was certainly the right approach for Nighy's scenes with Christopher Walken, who brings his usual engaging weirdness to the role of a shady espionage operative that Worricker stumbles across during his enforced retirement.

The Chicago Field Museum's science advisory council rebuked Haas for press releases and web pages that gave too little credit to Shady and inflated the couple's role as discoverers.