Sentence examples for sympathetic role from inspiring English sources

Simon won high praise for her chilling yet sympathetic role as the cat woman.

It was a difficult and not entirely sympathetic role, which attested to her willingness to constantly challenge herself.

This was probably the least sympathetic role he ever played, but he had never been more charismatic.

Even in his most sympathetic role as the caretaker of Earth's last forests in Douglas Trumbull's sci-fi tearjerker Silent Running, he got to blow up two men and kill another with a shovel.

At the moment, she is also awaiting the release of "Sleeping Dictionary," in which she plays a not altogether sympathetic role as the wife of Bob Hoskins, marooned in the Sarawak jungles of Borneo.

In Night into Morning (1951), she is once more in a sympathetic role as a widowed teacher who helps to console her colleague Ray Milland after his wife and child are killed in an accident.

Like Williams, he has written uncommonly perceptive and sympathetic roles for women, especially young women.

From the early 1950s, Widmark edged his way into more sympathetic roles, gradually entering the pantheon of Hollywood heroes.

Best supporting actresss Emma Thompson (Love Actually), Laura Linney (Mystic River) and Renée Zellweger (Cold Mountain) have immediately sympathetic roles as resilient victims.

Considering the growing support for gay rights, as well as the rise of openly gay public figures and sympathetic roles in television and movies, people might be forgiven for thinking that it's no big deal to come out these days.

Continuing to play such unpleasant film characters as Javert in Les Misérables (1935) and Captain Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), he balanced these assignments with such sympathetic roles as the mild-mannered British valet in Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) and the pathetic Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939).