Sentence examples for take on characters from inspiring English sources

The actors, several of whom play Brecht himself at various times, and at others take on characters he created, evince their admiration for the man far more effectively than they bring him to life.

Visitors to a chat room set up with this Microsoft software can take on characters to represent themselves from a menu that includes Barbie dolls, wizards and bulldogs.

If you're really ambitious, you can even host mystery parties where your guests take on characters and solve a crime.

It is poignant to see that when McCarthy was writing the kind of satire that involved autobiographical characters like Meg Sargent, or Martha Sinnott in "A Charmed Life," a strain of sympathetic regret softened her otherwise uncompromising take on characters whom she mainly presented as the sum of their disabilities.

(Kind of funny that she called herself a "hot chick"!) Pamela Anderson is an actress though, and actresses are able to take on characters unlike themselves, but the foxtrot is hard - -a lot harder than it looks -- and it looked like her focus on getting the steps and rise and fall right took time away from her ability to act it.

Mr. Gyllenhaal, who was nominated for a supporting actor Oscar for "Brokeback," said he still revels in experimenting with his take on characters from scene to scene and performance to performance.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices.

Tilefish, initially innocuous, takes on character when dipped into the bacon broth it comes half-submerged in.

White rémoulade is more French than Creole and a little more like tartar sauce, based on mayonnaise that takes on character with chopped pickles, capers, anchovy paste and maybe a little white vinegar.

It's something that you wear over time and that moulds to your body and takes on character," says Kara Nicholas, from historic denim manufacturer Cone Denim.

As they age, tequilas become more mellow and take on character from the wood.