Sentence examples for historical actor from inspiring English sources

"But Ukraine was a historical actor, and how!

And there is no great historical actor there, just George W. Bush.

If viewed as a pantomime, every historical actor is comically – often tragically – oblivious to the fact that "he's behind you".

Lewis is a dismal institution's griot, a historical actor and hero capable of telling the most complex and painful of American stories the story of race.

Lewis is a dismal institution's griot, a historical actor and hero capable of telling the most complex and painful of American stories — the story of race.

Ireland seemed to reveal Cromwell as a historical actor existing beyond the normal parameters of explanation – as God's avenger whose earthly mission was personally blessed by divine sanction.

Many minor historical actors can do that.

In fact, all of the historical actors in the novel feel like translucent ghosts.

Speculating about how historical actors would respond to contemporary controversies is invariably a tendentious exercise.

Ordinarily I might have been dismayed; the aura of the original is still powerful in imagining historical actors.

Tribal conflicts, slavery and wars, evidence of pre-colonial migrations -- all the complications of historical actors are stripped away.