Sentence examples similar to a customary role from inspiring English sources

A scene about the U. S. Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, from Michael Moore's documentary, "Capitalism: A Love Story". Playing his customary role as predictably as Chaplin, Michael Moore keeps up the assault.

And she suggests that he might have seen espionage as a way of taking action in a war-torn world, a way of shrugging off his customary role as an observer.

The accompanying ensemble is small — clarinet, cello, piano, synthesizer and percussion — but the score is sufficiently busy and virtuosic to require a conductor, a task ably executed by Fred Sherry, who performed in his more customary role, as a cellist, elsewhere in the program.

Mr. Roach is attempting to remove the strings from their customary role in a jazz context as a background cushion and, although they are not yet always placed on an equal footing with Mr. Roach's two-man horn section, the possibilities are already evident in the new repertory of arrangements written for the combined groups.

Despite strong evidence of a Kremlin cyber-attack of the DNC, the Kremlin is playing its customary role of a disinterested bystander, wondering aloud whether the DNC "forgot its password". The document dump has claimed the head of DNC chairperson Debbie whoserman-Schultz, who is stepping down at the end of the Democratic convention.

To outfox Arsenal, to exploit a lack of pace in the heart of its defense, Ferguson deployed Ronaldo at center forward rather than in his customary role as a winger.

She returned to Portsmouth on 7 December and she did not leave harbour until 30 January 1952 when she resumed her customary role as a training ship.

He was asked whether he planned to join Nicklaus and Player before Thursday's first round to hit a tee shot in his customary role of honorary starter.

He was asked if he plans to join Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player before Thursday's first round to hit a tee shot in his customary role of honorary starter.

In immediate terms, many analysts say, Ayatollah Khamenei has compromised his divinely inspired authority by openly taking sides — a move that is in conflict with the legal, religious and customary role of the leader as a neutral arbiter of events.

His obituary in the Times described his customary role as "the Englishman of a popular romantic convention.