Sentence examples for modest roles from inspiring English sources

Until Amelie, she'd been quietly forging a film career in modest roles.

Simon Abkarian is a famous stage and film actor in France, but modest roles in "The Truth About Charlie" and Atom Egoyan's "Ararat" (both 2002) weren't enough to make audiences remember him here.

Several other films followed, with modest roles: Mr Emmanuel; Kiss the Bride Goodbye; Meet Sexton Blake; a singer in The Way to the Stars; and a slave girl for Leigh in Caesar and Cleopatra.

And one, Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, from Congo, has been called papabile, a potential pope.But while elevating some Italians from rather modest roles, Benedict passed over the Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro who cares for more than 3.5m souls.

In the late nineties, Baldwin began to take leading roles in smaller films, and (at last) in comic films — most notably in "State and Main," directed and written by David Mamet — as well as more modest roles in big studio productions.

But it plays modest roles for the Ganges, Yangtze and Yellow Rivers (Immerzeel et al. 2010).

The Joyce will have a more modest role.

"Governor is an important role, but a modest role," Brown told me this spring.

"His was a modest role; he was a man in the shadows," Mr. Keselman said.

Mr. Bush played only a modest role in the debate, senior administration officials said.

The lightest of any solid element, lithium has, until now, played a modest role in industry.