Ms. Opel is not the only actor to juggle contrasting roles handily, either.
Frequently two zanni played contrasting roles, the first clever and adept at confounding, the second a dull-witted foil.
Possibly to indicate that everyone may be equally capable of virtue and vice, several performers are cast in wildly contrasting roles.
The play offers two equally meaty but contrasting roles, and this production allows each lead actor the chance to have a bash at both.
The rest of 2016 brings (at least) two suitably contrasting roles: the female lead in Tom Stoppard's historical romance Tulip Fever, and a prominent part opposite Matt Damon in Paul Greengrass's revival of the Jason Bourne franchise.
It is a tragic irony that the actor Christopher Reeve, who has died of heart failure aged 52, was renowned for two such contrasting roles: Superman, the supreme physical specimen, and a man paralysed from the neck down.
Skadden Arps partners sometimes cribbed from the Gospel in explaining Mr. Flom's and Mr. Mullen's contrasting roles at the top of the firm, Mr. Caplan wrote, quoting one executive as saying, "Joe was Jesus, and Peter was the rock on which he built his church".
Striking in his contrasting roles, the strapping Jeffrey M. Bender hits notes of broad Monty Pythonesque comedy when he wears the petticoats of the undertaker's nasty wife, but after changing into a black leather greatcoat, he turns believably lethal as the brutal Bill Sikes, who terrifies Fagin's ragamuffin crew.
Alternative analytic currents emphasize contrasting roles of instrumentation.
Moreover, individual and organizational characteristics played contrasting roles in explaining the observed size-earnings relationship.
As a matter of fact, ferritins from different species do play contrasting roles beyond iron storage.
