Sentence examples for quiet role from inspiring English sources

Ms. Spacek enlivens her sweet, quiet role with a necessary dash of vinegar.

For decades, he played a forceful if quiet role in the government of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.

Still, Date-Krumm plays on, and seems to relish her quiet role as the elder stateswoman of the women's tennis.

It is a small, quiet role that resonates outwards like fault lines opening in the earth, irrevocably altering the landscape.

In the criminal-justice system, however, it has played a critical, necessarily quiet role in preventing, inshallah, another major attack.

Sometimes it wins admiration for its quiet role as a peace-maker; sometimes it incurs controversy by opposing population policies that involve contraception.

At the time, Robert De Niro said to me, "Sometimes the quiet roles don't get the respect they deserve".

But Mr. Cobb's taking the lesser title and a quieter role appears to have had a price.

As the Black Panther Party faded from public view, Seale took on a quieter role, working to improve social services in black neighbourhoods and to improve the environment.

A similar thing happened to Mark Wahlberg in "The Fighter," and that was a quieter role.

Even in his quieter roles -- the psychotherapist in "Good Will Hunting" or the teacher-as-star of "Dead Poets Society" -- an outsize pride has always been this comedian-actor's hallmark.