Sentence examples similar to rivalrous role. from inspiring English sources

It is also "rivalrous," meaning that one party's use of the good limits someone else's.

With two co-stars shortlisted for the same role, a husband and wife pitted against each other and a playwright squaring up against himself, this year's Evening Standard theatre awards, out today, looks set to be a particularly rivalrous affair.

His attitude is less rivalrous than pathological.

Picasso and Matisse were similarly rivalrous.

Donors also remain intrusive, cumbersome and rivalrous in their giving.

Democracy is rivalrous, quarrelsome and unpredictable.

There are the Beats' rivalrous dealings with rock stars.

It was more of a slightly rivalrous, untrusting association.

Their occupation of space and time is rivalrous.

But was a son also provoking in me rivalrous feelings?

How rivalrous of Knightley did she feel off-screen?