Sentence examples for a daunting role from inspiring English sources
By any standards, the son of God is a daunting role to step into.
Still, overall she gave a formidable account of a daunting role that earned her an enormous ovation.
Henry Kissinger, who had encouraged Kushner's dialogue with Cui, described Kushner as occupying a "daunting role flying close to the sun".
If Mrs. Lovett felt in her wheelhouse — "It's a London story," she said — Rose strikes her "as a whole different ballgame, a daunting role, a very American character".
Taking his place was the South African tenor Johan Botha, who recently triumphed at the Metropolitan Opera as Walther in Wagner's "Meistersinger von Nürnberg," a fresh-voiced account of a daunting role.
But Sweeney Todd is a vocally daunting role in a musically complex Sondheim score.
As he takes me on a tour of the building, passing decorators, backstage crew and lighting engineers setting up for an awards bash that evening, I can see what a potentially daunting role he has.
As Claire, Caitriona Balfe holds her own in a very daunting role that requires her to be in almost every scene, but through the course of the first season you can see her begin to grow into the role, and the show perks up quite a bit whenever she shares the screen with Heughan or Menzies.
The tenor Ben Heppner, in the daunting role of Ghermann, a Russian army officer with a gambling obsession, audibly struggled with a cold.
This may be the most daunting role for an actress in 20th-century American theater.
