Sentence examples for a quiet role from inspiring English sources

Willie Walsh, a former Aer Lingus pilot who last fall became the airline's fifth chief executive in three years, has so far played a quiet role in the conflict, and he is not well known in business circles here.

Jordan, which has played a quiet role, could be a big beneficiary, as could Israel, a nation that already tops the list of U.S. foreign aid at $2.7 billion.

In this case, Bradley is not doing a quiet role.

But Mr. Cobb's taking the lesser title and a quieter role appears to have had a price.

As the Black Panther Party faded from public view, Seale took on a quieter role, working to improve social services in black neighbourhoods and to improve the environment.

A similar thing happened to Mark Wahlberg in "The Fighter," and that was a quieter role.

It is a small, quiet role that resonates outwards like fault lines opening in the earth, irrevocably altering the landscape.

For decades, he played a forceful if quiet role in the government of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.

In the criminal-justice system, however, it has played a critical, necessarily quiet role in preventing, inshallah, another major attack.

She is very quietly playing a major role in the world of art publications, a very major and quiet role.

Ms. Spacek enlivens her sweet, quiet role with a necessary dash of vinegar.