Sentence examples for devastating role from inspiring English sources

The same financial instruments, of course, played a devastating role in the recent crisis.

Sexual orientation is often in play here: in "Pretty Please," for example, a dressmaker named Paula engineers a devastating role reversal with her boyfriend, who by story's end is wearing earrings and holding a green purse.

The real paradox here is that the one-drop rule succeeded all too well, so much so that its most devoted adherents today are African-Americans, in spite of its devastating role in their own history of exclusion.

After a disappointing World Cup and a sense that injury and weariness had taken its toll, Messi's 2014-15 season was both a genuine, through-the-roof return to form, and evidence of his ability to adapt to a slightly different but equally devastating role as a mature creative footballer in a team overloaded at its front end with attacking talent.

The outbreak of bubonic plague, or Black Death, also played a devastating role in the decline of the Pax Mongolica.

If Rick never made another movie except his devastating role as the "gate-keeper" in Ghostbusters, the world would continue to be a better place because of him.

By the end of the season, Iannucci said, "she'll become quite steely"; and there will be evidence of "how devastating a public role can be — what it can do to you privately and emotionally".

The 37-year-old now has a CV that encompasses starring roles at the National Theatre, alongside Simon Russell Beale, and at the Donmar Warehouse, where he was quietly devastating in the lead role of the Jason Robert Brown musical Parade.

She tries to reconcile Margaret Thatcher's hand in creating Mr Whippy (the actual ice cream, not Douglas Hurd) with the ex-PM's role in devastating her local community.

Michael Murphy's quietly disturbing play, drawn from documentary evidence, reveals with devastating clarity the dubious role that Cardinal Bernard Law, the archbishop of Boston, played in a tragedy that irreparably damaged hundreds of families and destroyed more than a few lives.

Protein misfolding and aggregation in general and amyloidogenesis in particular are of growing interest as scientists recognize their role in devastating degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.