Sentence examples for peripheral roles from inspiring English sources

Mr. Cornejo is 5 feet 6 inches tall, which in most circumstances would mean a lifetime sentenced to peripheral roles.

No less than the battered women and the maligned immigrants who play peripheral roles, the village elders can be pathetic, but they can also be evil.

As a younger actress, like most great talents, she had a reputation as an intensely competitive force, wanting leads when finding herself in peripheral roles ("Like a racehorse being asked to pull the cart," as she once put it).

Race and representation is a complex area that manifests in different form in America from that in the UK, although in both cases it's common to assign peripheral roles to non-white actors.

Not Nolan, though, who creates enough peripheral roles for Gary Oldman, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman all to elbow their way into, the latter two playing the same essential character of Bruce Wayne's gentle-voiced mentor-cum-moral-compass.

Liverpool are preparing to bid for Aston Villa's Christian Benteke after the FA Cup final on Saturday while the defenders Kolo Touré and Andre Wisdom have signed contract extensions despite their peripheral roles under Brendan Rodgers.

I said I had a peripheral role.

I had a peripheral role at Lampoon during its decline.

Even in the actual process of being married, she played a peripheral role.

It is odd seeing Broad around the group in a peripheral role.

In 1999 and 2004, he played a peripheral role in examinations of the Madoff firm, current and former officials said.