Sentence examples for reversing roles from inspiring English sources

It has a Swiftian capacity to disturb by the simple trick of reversing roles.

At the same time, Mr. Burton couldn't resist revisiting and reinventing the myth of humans and apes reversing roles.

New anthrax alarms shifted away from newsrooms in New York and Florida yesterday to Capitol Hill and Gov. George E. Pataki's office in Manhattan, reversing roles in the nation's most arresting television drama.

"You actually have Dad and Arthur Miller reversing roles," says Tony Huston, the director's son, in "Making 'The Misfits.' " This time around, he says, it was the screenwriter who wanted to turn his work into an epic.

The direction of Mr. Leveaux (who also staged the current Broadway revival of "Arcadia") elucidates the blurring of lines within family hierarchy, and the constantly reversing roles of parent, child and lover.

It seems Grossman is issuing another warning to his Israeli audience, advising them not only that the occupation cannot go on forever but also that history has a habit of reversing roles, that today's perpetrator can sometimes become tomorrow's victim, and that today's victim could be tomorrow's perpetrator.

Today, the Williams sisters reversed roles.

The obvious solution is to reverse roles.

Today, the two sides reversed roles.

The Cubs and the Mets, three months into the season, have reversed roles.

The remarkable thing is that this class war has caused everyone to reverse roles.