Sentence examples for a problematic role from inspiring English sources

At the Maryland Institute College of Art she made self-portraits with Barbie, exploring what she had come to see as a love-hate relationship: fond childhood memories balanced against adult discomfort with the doll as a problematic role model.

Diana Canova, a television celebrity in her own right, provides welcome, underplayed counterpoint to Ms. Gifford's flashiness, and Tom Beckett deftly plays a problematic role, for the character, as he appears initially, is an offensive mockery.

And the mainstream media, unfortunately, has played a problematic role in obscuring the reality of the situation.

But for Gupta, the recent admissions by Guerra validate long-standing concerns about his credibility as a witness, and his problematic role in the New York ruling.

As an example of the usefulness of having a framework that makes all thermodynamic data available in one location and in an open format, we discuss the issue of reaction directionality that plays a pivotal and often problematic role in many metabolic models (Feist et al., 2007; Oberhardt et al., 2009) and has a crucial effect on their results.

The final member of the menagerie, and its most unoriginal and problematic role, is a faded actress clinging to the illusion of her beauty (Ann Chandler), who lives next door and calls herself The Gloria.

Meanwhile, another juror, the doomed Pericles Feyder (T. Scott Cunningham, who is sturdily cheerful in the play's most yearning and problematic role), has been burning a torch for Philippe since their boyhood affair.

The paper demonstrates the problematic role of accounting as a basis for resource application decisions in two separate ways.

It is common for both social science and social norms to lag behind the evolution of new technologies, and studies like that of Brossard and Scheufele, along with books like Emily Bazelon's Sticks and Stones, a chronicle of bullying that highlights the problematic role of social media, suggest that the science at least is beginning to make some progress.

Vivian is the play's most problematic role because she is made into its conscience.

Perhaps more than any other country on the continent, Nigeria -- where one in six Africans live -- has focused attention on the problematic role of natural resources, which have enriched the African elite and Western businesses but slowed development.