Sentence examples for abandon the role from inspiring English sources

In 1968, he appeared as Don Quixote in the musical Man of La Mancha, but illness forced him to abandon the role.

She is not abandoning the role, however.

By joining the economy, have artists abandoned the role of visionary?

Had a stroke while rehearsing a version in New Zealand in 2007 and abandoned the role.

With its ability to manage the world diamond stockpile eroding, De Beers announced that it had abandoned the role.

Abandoning the role of a thinking person is not something that should be required of any religious individual.

In that, he will be helped by the fact that the previous government – despite its own rhetoric and that of its enemies – never completely abandoned the role.

Midler had finally abandoned the role, and "Sister Act" was dead, but then, as with Bernadette on that bleak French crag — a miracle!

Some artists have abandoned the role of author and let the audience become the art – as Antony Gormley did with his Fourth Plinth project –while others, like Cory Arcangel, sample modern electronic life.

I have worked with him for 10 years and before big games with Wasps and Wales he abandons the role of head coach, which is largely about overseeing others, and takes charge in training and selection.

It was rather shocking to see the panellists (a former Cabinet minister, an eminent lawyer, a TV personality, and a press commentator) all nod in nonchalant agreement at the proposition, and I immediately abandoned the role of impartial invigilator to take issue with them.