Sentence examples for background roles from inspiring English sources

The other dancers, poor things, are relegated to occasional background roles in which they writhe about senselessly, mimicking the leads.

Kay Gaffney has acted for 16 years in background roles in soaps like "As the World Turns" and films including "Meet Joe Black and Woody Allenn's "Celebrity".

John and Adam are involved in the campaign in background roles; friends say family members are dealing with the bereavement in different ways.

Those who are protesting don't want to see non-whites patronised with background roles as saintly ciphers; they want them to play mainstream parts as three-dimensional protagonists in what is, after all, their story.

In his stump speeches, he mentions all the women his wife, Anne Holton, first of all who have taken background roles in his political career (as campaign managers, aides, donors, volunteers) while his own name has been on the "bumper sticker, the lawn sign, the ballot".

Indeed, cultural factors (gender, ethnical background, roles within a community) are considered in the programs.  .

He took the position of managing director in 1994 as his father reverted to a background role.

It is great that we have moved so far from the 19th-century "pretty little woman in the background" role.

This background role is the model both Ffion Hague and Sarah Brown (initially) tried to emulate, despite having careers themselves.

Mr. Obama gathered international backing for airstrikes during the Libyan uprising, and kept American military forces in a background role.

Bassists have a lot to prove to transcend a background role; some, in positions of leadership, overcompensate with a hypermelodic, almost guitarlike style.