Sentence examples for playing both roles from inspiring English sources

Then the director began to re-enact the scene himself, playing both roles.

And in superbly run firms, playing both roles simultaneously may be possible.

A drama about identical twins who detest each other was recorded in stereo, with the same actor playing both roles.

Under the strain of playing both roles, and forced to dig deep into her psyche, this ballerina falls apart.

Mr. Marei said he was "used to playing both roles," but was worried by the enormous need and the lack of supplies.

But when insiders at major corporations see top officials getting away with it -- moving unscathed between stints as crony capitalists and high office or even, as in the case of Richard Perle, playing both roles at once -- they have to feel that old rules no longer apply, and that they can get away with even more self-dealing than before.

(Kazan subsequently played both roles).

It is not inconceivable that Ms. Zellweger, 31, could have drawn on her own life to play both roles.

In 1962, the M.I.T. biologist Alexander Rich suggested that RNA could have played both roles — blueprint and machinery — at the beginning.

Damien Rice, who played a sold-out concert at the Beacon Theater on Monday night, likes to play both roles at once.

In other words, Hatch has played both roles in the Senate — as a partisan obstructionist and a consensus-seeking deal-maker.