Sentence examples for searing role from inspiring English sources
The Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan specializes in portraying women in extremis: consider the searing role of Agnès in George Benjamin's opera "Written on Skin," which brought her to New York's Mostly Mozart Festival in 2015, or the title role in Alban Berg's "Lulu," in which she has triumphed in Brussels and Hamburg.
The most original and thought-provoking insights in "The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina," Frank Rich's meticulously researched chronicle of the Bush administration's exploits, come in his searing analysis of the role that the "new mediathon" has played in the demise of fact-driven public discourse.
But it wasn't until she was 16 that she was taken to a play she really enjoyed: A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen's searing 1879 indictment of the role of women in 19th-century society.
Olga Borodina in the title role gives a searing account of the last act, with passion in every flicker of vocal color or phrasing; she is joined by Neil Shicoff as Don Jose.
After winning an Oscar for Best Documentary for Inside Job, a compelling and searing indictment of Wall Street's role in the economic crisis, Ferguson injected some much-needed real world relevance amidst the fabulously glitzy proceedings.
But great dancing has no age limit: Robert Swinston, who joined the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1980, took on Cunningham's role in "Quartet" and epitomized, with searing simplicity, the act of isolation.
Simms's strongly "continental" approach to our role in Europe was evident from the mid-1990s, whis hisearingng polemic Unfinest Hour flayed British inaction over genocide in Bosnia.
Babel's role was to be a witness to the dark underside of the revolution — the searing violence rather than the glories of the workers' movement.
Nominated for a Tony Award in 2007 for "Spring Awakening," Groff has had a recurring role on '"Glee" and is in Ryan Murphy's HBO production of Larry Kramer's searing AIDS drama "The Normal Heart," due to air this June.
Haunting, searing and magnificent.
