Sentence examples for standard role from inspiring English sources

That is the "standard role" all governors play at conventions, she argues.

Until recently, Coke was having a forgettable season in his standard role of setup relief.

His standard role was that of a tough loner whose violent behaviour conformed to his own understated moral principles.

Using an auction reduces the standard role of underwriters, but they're still needed to liaise with investors.

For Posada, his homer in the first game did not come as a pinch-hitter, his standard role in National League stadiums.

In Molly she's inhabiting a standard role -- the wife worn to a frazzle by her husband's blockheaded insensitivity -- but with her wide, sad eyes, brittle posture and a voice that somehow manages to ascend to a screech without being irritating, she puts a personal stamp on it that is not only amusing but credible.

"But it was also thrilling to create a show around a person who is not your standard role-model character, who is insightful about his foibles and admits to them and who has all these powerful emotions that we knew — somehow — could be turned into powerful songs".

After all, these novels are explicitly uncomfortable with the standard roles accorded to women.

In this work Cowell, a fiercely experimental composer, explores the concept of dissonant counterpoint, in which the standard roles of consonance and dissonance are reversed.

In spite of these signal developments, McDaniel and most of the others continued to play their standard roles throughout the forties.

He has thus moved easily back and forth from standard roles to unusual ones, from opera to recital, from Hans Sachs in Wagner's "Meistersinger" to the title role in Messaien's "St.