Sentence examples for a softer role from inspiring English sources

It's a softer role than the self-obsessed drama queens Ms. Malick has perfected in sitcoms, but her professionalism — the perfect timing, the seemingly effortless control of expression and inflection, the voice sliding toward a bray as the character experiences mildly dangerous situations — is a pleasure to watch in any circumstances.

As my colleagueEric Schmitt writes from the neighboring state of Niger, the Pentagon's Africa Command is in the region to play a "soft power" role in strengthening social, political and economic programs as well as training regional armed forces.

Brooks Atkinson wrote in the New York Times: "Miss Davis, who is making her first professional appearance, is an entrancing creature who plays in a soft, unassertive role".

So you can imagine the hilarity that ensues in Kindergarten Cop – the forerunner for one-joke "hard men in soft role" comedies from the likes of Vin Diesel and the Rock – as the man destined to become the governator shows us why angry action stars shouldn't quit their day jobs to stand in front of a class of impressionable toddlers.

She has cast Kerry Washington in a softer manifestation of the Machiavellian role Glenn Close played in Damages.

Other years that'd prove to be Team Fortress 2 or Counter-Strike: Source, but one holiday I decided to pick up Atlus' Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4. I'd always had a soft spot for Japanese role-playing games, JRPGs, but this looked a little more off kilter and certainly different from the standard fantasy romps of the Tales of... titles I adored.

Other years that'd prove to be Team Fortress 2 or Counter-Strike: Source, but one holiday I decided to pick up Atlus's Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4. I'd always had a soft spot for Japanese role-playing games, JRPGs, but this looked a little more off kilter and certainly different from the standard fantasy romps of the Tales of... titles I adored.

Replacing them, Olesia Novikova danced the role with a soft and demure loveliness that was all wrong until, on Saturday night, she began to find the sharpness and nonstop impetus it needed.

Hence, CO2 had a profound role as a soft oxidant by improving both activity and stability in the EBD over MnO2-ZrO2 mixed oxide catalysts.

The role of a soft metallic phase in Ti Cu N nanostructured films containing one hard and one soft phase is also discussed.

Mortensen (whose fluent Spanish is one of the movie's many unexpected rewards) lends a soft-spoken authority to the role of Dinesen.