Sentence examples for serves as a foil from inspiring English sources

Go-go Sadik serves as a foil to his increasingly idealistic roommate.

Here she mostly serves as a foil for the top biller Johnny Depp, who (yes, yes) plays the Mad Hatter, and Mr. Burton's bright and leaden whimsies.

The latter is modeled upon a stock character of opéra comique-pure, innocent and family-oriented-and serves as a foil to Carmen's carnality.

It serves as a foil for the soli parts, which sometimes enter successively on long tones and gradually unfold into decorative, expressive passages (as in Bach's Violin Concerto No. 2).

But all this serves as a foil and contrast for the tenderness of Anthony, who at the end of the book, beholds his Livingston backyard as a place that was "both beautiful and horrible, a place both magical and empty".

While China still serves as a foil for American politicians who want to talk about unfair trade practices and to score points with labor unions and manufacturing companies simultaneously, the reality is that China's economic growth — and the ascendance of its middle class — have enlarged the market there for American goods.

(Scalia occasionally chose an outstanding liberal clerk, to serve as a foil).

Slices of juicy navel oranges served as a foil to the spicy heat.

The strange public figure who served as a foil for both Taylor Swift and George W. Bush?

Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who served as a foil to Trump and called him "dangerous," passed away in August.

A local clergyman (Jeremy Northam) comes around to serve as a foil for his neighbor and to incarnate both the benevolence and the obtuseness of religious custom.