Sentence examples for elusive roles from inspiring English sources

But the impression here is less of people running after elusive dreams than of actors running after elusive roles.

The actors playing Chekhov's characters are always pacing or running or jumping, and the impression "is less of people running after elusive dreams than of actors running after elusive roles," Ben Brantley writes.

Classical MHCI molecules are in general associated with immune responses, while the non-classical MHCIs have more elusive roles, especially outside of the immune system (Arosa et al. 2007).

For me, Fela is an elusive role model.

And, if you do land that elusive role, be curious.

Vocally he was commanding if unvaried, a convincing approach to an elusive role.

But Ms. Bush is also artfully ambivalent, giving resonant precision to the play's most elusive role.

I'm impatient to see Leonardo DiCaprio's version; his own deflective opacity was at its most effective in another elusive role, that of Frank Abagnale, Jr., in Steven Spielberg's "Catch Me if You Can".

Strangely, the hardest thing about a fictional artist for a director to convey is the sense of depth; it's strange because actors are themselves artists, often of great depth, so it ought to suffice for them to be, as much as possible, themselves — but that's the hardest and most elusive role to play.

His quintet, which will appear on Thursday at Littlefield in Brooklyn, can swing like crazy, but there's often an implosion around the corner, triggered either by Mr. Evans or by Sam Pluta, whose live electronics, involving transmogrified samples of his band mates, plays a pervasive but elusive role.

This modification and the five biosynthetic proteins are conserved in all eukaryotes, pointing to an important but still elusive role for diphthamide in normal physiology.