The phrase "a role call" is not correct; the correct term is "a roll call." You can use it when referring to the process of calling out names to check attendance, typically in a classroom or meeting setting.
Example: "Before we start the meeting, let's do a roll call to ensure everyone is present."
Alternatives: "attendance check" or "name call".
With source material provided by the Franco-Russian mathematician Misha Gromov — who compiled a role call of important theorists, scientists and philosophers over the course of human history — Mr. Lynch's work streams text excerpts written by influential figures set to ominous "tripscape" music he composed with Dean Hurley.
It's no surprise that the author tour for Mr. George's new memoir City Kid (a tale of his growing up in Brooklyn in the 1960s and 70s) is a role call of our favorite bookstores (Hue-Man in Harlem, Book Soup in West Hollywood) as well as a few non-retail spaces that portend the future of the author visitation business.
She writes that the one "question mark" is what Patricia Racette's "lyric instrument will make of a role calling for a strong Verdi soprano".
The show's unconventional structure (the audience plays a role, calling out a character's lines) strengthens the premise by suggesting that we're all somehow complicit.
He was ready to put himself in the most compromising and embarrassing positions if that was what a role called for.
The first indication of Shepard's inter est came when she auditioned for a part in his play Forensic and the Navigators (1967) only to find it contained a role called Oolan, whose character mirrored her own.
António Guterres is currently the head of the UN, in a role called the General Secretary.
I helped write a book, Process First, that proposes a role called the "Business Process Expert," which would help jump start this style of thinking.
Naomi says she once "auditioned for a role called 'Cynthia/Negro woman'"; Aba is "often cast as the more mature, wise kind of maternal character"; and directors have instructed Jenny to be "more sassy" or "put more swagga' into it".
Sometimes my friends from college and I text each other pictures of our day - a Saturday role call of sorts - "what are we each doing today?" It's so fun.
