Sentence examples for sacrificial role from inspiring English sources
"Please thank them," Mr. Knudsen said, "for their sacrificial role".
What gives "The Gospel of Judas" a peculiar pathos is the sacrificial role that Judas must play in the divine story.
The welder's torch was an instrument in a ritual enactment of the ancient idea that beauty itself may be condemned to play a tragic, sacrificial role in human affairs.
The sacrificial role of the priests was apparently reduced to a minimum, making the high altitude mountain environment (with its low temperatures and extreme atmospheric conditions) a key participant in the process of bringing about the deaths of the victims.
For his part Williams is having a field day with the firing, playing the sacrificial lamb role on the altar of "liberal bias" and PC correctness.
And Rebel Wilson – usually a great comic – is stuck with the role of Johnson's outrageous manic pixie fat/funny dream friend: an essentially sacrificial character, whose job is to facilitate Johnson's emotional journey but who is not herself entitled to personal growth.
It cannot be reduced to a sacrificial use.
As the lesser-known of the three stars, speculation has already begun that Sigman will get the sacrificial-lamb role.
Maybe an actual win for Freeman would have meant – along with much-merited praise – a more concerted discussion around the way black characters keep getting cast in essentially sacrificial or subordinate roles, which mean that their wisdom is something to be offered up for the white character's personal journey.
On Thanksgiving last year, Roy Williams played the role of sacrificial turkey.
The Italian champions were cast in the role of sacrificial lambs, but no side containing four New Zealanders and four South Africans is going to go meekly to slaughter.
