Sentence examples for obvious role model from inspiring English sources

Eccles is an obvious role model.

The obvious role model for Mr. Tune's casual, unpretentious vocal style is Fred Astaire, but with a twang.

An obvious role model, Mr. Bear wore traditional dress made by members of his family, largely from porcupine quills collected over generations.

His obvious role model is George Orwell, who recurs often in this volume as subject, moral touchstone, literary kib­itzer, footnote and foil.

This brash German cabaret singer is as fearless and as funny as Eartha Kitt (an obvious role model) in breaking down the fourth wall by comically "seducing" ringside patrons.

The young soprano Angelina Reaux, like her obvious role model Teresa Stratas, is a singer with unusually strong dramatic instincts and the will to transcend the image of opera singer as a delicate hothouse flower.

Now, across Europe and the US, there aren't any obvious role models.

In this way they facilitate the acculturation, performance, and career progress of new entrants, high potentials, and minority populations who lack enough obvious role models.

Her most obvious role models are relatively self-contained performers like Nancy Wilson and Thelma Houston, who once recorded the Jimmy Webb song "Everybody Gets to Go to the Moon," which opens Ms. Douglas's show.

He never found a long-term romantic partner, thwarted in part by a disapproving society with no obvious role models for him, and he bought his dream house on the ocean here 15 years ago with two close friends, because he didn't want to grow old alone and didn't expect to meet anyone special, not so late in the game.

Powell was one of few minority women in her department, and there were no obvious role models.