Sentence examples for skilled character from inspiring English sources

Sullivan's Travels also featured performances by many of the skilled character actors who would become members of Sturges's ensemble and play secondary but pivotal roles in his films, among them William Demarest, Jimmy Conlin, Eric Blore, and Franklin Pangborn.

In less skilled hands, his character, Mike Ross, could have been an idiot savant who charms the heartless employees of the venal law firm with his gifts and his innocence.

After five auditions, a screen test, and a physical test, she landed the role of Jade, a character skilled in martial arts.

For all the talk about the knife, sources involved with the show insist speculation about Simpson's training was overstated — scoffing at a 1994 news service report saying, "Simpson portrays a character skilled at knife combat".

(Dead characters can be resurrected by characters skilled in healing).

Ms. Cohen is also skilled at having characters reveal their illusions in conversation.

But there was no such shocker Tuesday night; just more evidence of why this show endures: distinctive characters, skilled actors, an ability to mix humor into the gloomiest situations.

It's an unbroken Star Wars rule (at least in the original trilogy) that only characters skilled in the use of the Force ever discuss it in any kind of detail.

Mr. Platt, a skilled 40-year-old character actor ("Bulworth," "Dr. Dolittle"), had been sought for years by television producers.

Mr. Alexander and Mr. Mathias are certainly skilled at defining sympathetic characters in song.

The supporting actors are especially skilled at exploiting their characters' excesses without approaching cartoonishness.