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41 examples of Thankless in a sentence

And while I had sometimes thought the parents I was interviewing were fools, enslaving themselves to a lifetime's journey with their thankless children and trying to breed identity out of misery, I realized that day that my research had built me a plank and that I was ready to join them on their ship.
Like our housework, it's a dirty and a thankless job, but it's also important.
You know, like lots of generations moving to the Back of the Yards, the family did the thankless hidden jobs that most people didn't want to do: cleaning office buildings, preparing airline meals in cold factories, meat packing, demolitions.
Blake Edwards' film about a woman who is both music-hall entertainer and German spy during WWI doesn't know what tone to aim for, and Rock Hudson has the thankless task of playing romantic second-fiddle.
Jeffrey Combs of Re-Animator fame is in tow, but really he does little in this rather thankless role as a horror obsessed teen that needs to steal a dead man's body for kicks.
Christine Lahti (Sandy Dunlap) and Mary Tyler Moore (Holly Davis) worked well with soapish material, Ted Danson did his best with a thankless role of Chip Davis The premise of this that the two ladies' friendship, one a seemingly happily married woman and the other a career woman who is aware of her biological clock ticking.
Madison was quite popular as television's Wild Bill Hickock and is good as a displaced cattle rancher who is given his thankless task by the army.
Also in the cast is Martha Hyer, wasted in a thankless role never really explored.
S. Epatha Merkeson, who has been wasted for years in the thankless role of Lieutenant Van Buren on NBC's LAW & ORDER, turns in a powerhouse performance as Nanny, the neighborhood mother-figure whose boarding house became a symbol for the downtrodden black folks in her town.
Murray Hamilton, the Mayor from Jaws, has a thankless roll as a cop.
Thirdly, George Hamilton was also handed a thankless task, in taking over as family lawyer after Robt Duvall reportedly turned down a 3rd installment as Tom Hagen.
Of the remaining cast, there's not a kind word I can say for Asin, who practically lit up Ghajini with her ebullient charm, but disappoints here with unnecessary over-acting in a thankless role.
Alex Rocco is given a thankless role of a lifer cop that can't get ahead and is saddled with a mentally ill wife.
Some of the performers have virtually nothing to do like Jose Ferrer in a thankless role even if it is nothing more than a cameo.
However, though Simmons has a thankless role, Ozzy does have a funny cameo as a Reverend (that's right, a Reverend!!) who speaks out against heavy metal.
Suffice it to say that though Cagney walks away with the picture as you would expect Day is only three or four steps behind while Robert Keith (who had played her father in YAH) scores well in the thankless nice-guy role as an agent.
John Pankow delivers the movie's most interesting performance in a thankless role.
Cameron Mitchell has a thankless role as a weak-willed bounty hunter who seems tough enough until his bluff is called.
Ruth Warrick ("Citizen Kane") has a thankless role as Andrews' uncaring wife.
Wendell Corey was still getting work wherever mahogany was called for and he did about as well as anyone with the thankless part of Craig, who is there merely as something - as opposed to someONE - for Harriet to fool, foil and manipulate.
For producers and screenwriters, trying to make a historically accurate film, especially one dealing with a faraway and complex period, is a thankless and often pointless task.
Chris Cooper has a thankless, clichéd role as profane, short-fused father of Haas.
Jessica Harper has the thankless role as Haas' mother, the typical hush-hush-wife afraid of her hot-tempered husband.
True, there are some great songs, but Red Skelton is purely annoying, Zsa Zsa Gabor is wasted in a thankless role, and Ann Miller has all the personality of a sponge.
Carey has a thankless part which he plays in a workmanlike way while Ansara tries to inject some flavor into his standard issue part.
I didn't grow up in the seventies, so I'm not too familiar with her work, but I'm pretty sure she was big in her hayday and it's a shame that she took on such a thankless role.
The usually watchable Fay Bainter is given a thankless role as the smug, supercilious astrologer.
Why they gave him the thankless role of the bland servant and not Lionel Atwill's or Joseph Calleia's part, I don't know.
To be fair it's something of a triumph for ensemble acting with everyone pulling his weight with special mention for Julie Depardieu who manages to oxygenate a pretty thankless role.
Don Cheadle's talents are wasted in a thankless role as the villain--just when you've forgotten he's even IN the movie, he turns up again to bring the film to a halt.