Sentence examples for subdued role from inspiring English sources

Bérénice Béjo was superbly intelligent and self-possessed in Farhadi's The Past: a complex, subdued role.

It took a while Thursday night to see what Mr. Oramo could do, mainly because he devoted the first half of his program to Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto, in which the orchestra plays an unusually subdued role in the first two movements and doesn't fully edge its way into the spotlight until the finale.

But, inside the countries themselves, social media has a subdued role.

Throughout most of the developed world, social objectives play a very subdued role in shaping fisheries policy.

Pitt also appears to be on form, albeit in a more subdued role.

On a team laden with younger superstars — whose celebrity was rivaling, if not surpassing, his own — Bryant actually looked content with a more subdued role.

Another decent, relatively subdued bluecollar role in which Meryl plays a woman who created an inspirational high-school music programme for deprived city kids in New York.

Here he is fairly subdued in the role of Matthew, a transplanted Glaswegian working as a gardener in a picturesque town in Cornwall and enjoying, in addition to the traditional pint at the pub, a friendly toke or two with his pals, including the local doctor, played by the very amusing Martin Clunes.

The same can be said of the songs for Ms. Ralph (of the original "Dreamgirls" cast), who is surprisingly subdued in the Carol Channing role, even in an embarrassing sequence in which she wears blond curls and pretends to be an orphan.

The "Turandot" finale offered Patricia Racette as an equally ardent Liu and Jane Eaglen in the title role, sounding somewhat subdued after the recent rigors of the "Ring".

Susana doesn't play the role of the subdued woman; she manifests her beliefs clearly and firmly.