Sentence examples for too glamorous for from inspiring English sources

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Just a little too glamorous for the role.

Initially, Berry was considered too glamorous for the role, but Daniels fought for her.

Even when Mr. Firth switches the lights off in his eyes, he is a little too glamorous for the role of a despairing middle-aged milquetoast with a streak of kindness.

He famously turned down Ava Gardner, Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe as too glamorous for the role of the hooker, and wanted to bring out the more attractive side of Widmark, a specialist in playing smirking psychopaths.

But Kerr would have been too glamorous for the film's land girl and so the more believable Sheila Sim convinces us and enables us to sympathise with her tragedy: similarly Livesey always projected too genial a personality for the film's misogynistic and sadistic "glue man", a role perfectly suited to Eric Portman's natural antipathy to women and cold-eyed diffidence.

She may be too glamorous for the part of Joan Clarke, whose mathematical brain led her to the heart of Bletchley, but her unadorned "Oh," or, rather, "Eauw," when the gravity of the job is first explained to her, takes us straight back to "Brief Encounter" and made me dream, long after "The Imitation Game" had finished, of what Noël Coward would have done with so tangled a tale.

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"That three-hour ride up to Yaroslavl after a 15-hour flight after shooting all day long — not fun," said Carol Alt, Yashin's longtime companion and a New York-based model, looking a shade too glamorous even for Yaroslavl's one upscale hotel, where she was dining with her husband.

Three days later, I concluded that Rakaposhi base camp seemed too glamorous a name for the chilly, wet pasture at the foot of the mountain.

That she is reviled for being too glamorous, while Clinton was criticised for being too dowdy, pinpoints the impossibly narrow standards to which women are held.

It's the sports reporters at Sky, this time, being lambasted by Gabby Logan for being too glamorous.

Apparently, for some people I look too "glamorous", or too "feminine", to be an academic.

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