Sentence examples for astonishing role from inspiring English sources

The seeming alliance between Trump and WikiLeaks is an astonishing role reversal.

Later, an astonishing role reversal takes place as half a dozen loyal and obedient male hangers-on are sent running at the snap of her fingers to fetch us tea and guavas.

Known to fans for recurring TV roles on Homicide Life on the Street and Treme and her astonishing lead role in the film Frozen River, Leo completes my own recent triumvirate of women actors (joining Patricia Clarkson and Amy Ryan, who are so fiercely intelligent that you have that "oh good, she's in this" feeling when you see them on screen. She says, however, that's not so.

Portman is altogether astonishing in the role.

Hall is astonishing in the role, fearlessly digging into Chubbuck's deep-set insecurities to yield a deeply empathetic portrait of a woman on the verge.

That's astonishing, as their roles are killers in more ways than one.

If any dramatist aided that struggle, it was Ibsen himself: yet another reason for his popularity is the astonishing gallery of roles he created for women, from the youthful Hilde Wangel in The Master Builder to the mature Mrs Alving in Ghosts.

The way the well-scrubbed, apple-cheeked Linney embodied that role was astonishing.

This is astonishing, given the critical role that the war in Iraq has played in fomenting support for the radicals.

But Dominique Blanc in the title role was astonishing, commanding yet always controlled, seductive yet emotionally disheveled.

"One of the things I hope the course pointed out is that for how small a percentage of the population Asians were in the 19th century, it's astonishing how crucial a role they played in how America imagined its borders, citizenship, and naturalization," she said.