Sentence examples for treacherous role from inspiring English sources

Venetia Stelliou was a courageous Queen of the Night, doing honorable work in a treacherous role.

Mr. Bush has now thrust himself into the often treacherous role of Middle East peacemaker that American presidents have played for the last quarter century, but which he himself had avoided until now.

There is much, much more to "Archie and Amélie," from the treacherous role of Stanford White (who was affectionately nicknamed "Fuzz Buzz" by Archie) in Astor family finances to Amélie's second marriage, nearly as peculiar as her first.

The first hour establishes a Mexico-based drug cartel as the enemy plotting a terrorist attack on the United States, but past experience suggests that high-placed Americans may also play a treacherous role.

But perhaps Damon's most treacherous role over the last decade has been that of Jimmy Kimmel's arch-nemesis, rooting back to when Kimmel would bump him off his show nightly in order to make room for other guests.

The treacherous part of "J.

Friedenstag features Gundula Janowitz and John Shirley-Quick in the treacherous lead roles (Erich Leinsdorf conducts the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra), while Deborah Voigt and Albert Dohmen sing in Friedenstag (with Giuseppe Sinopoli conducting the Staatskapelle Dresden).

For a historically minded man such as Jackson, whose teenage years coincided with the optimistic height of the civil rights struggle, and who was a young Black Panther in the bleak and treacherous COINTELPRO years, the role probes some unfamiliar backwaters of the African-American experience.

In fact, he was originally hired to play Willie, Leo's treacherous best friend, but switched roles with the actor Joaquin Phoenix.

(This means that Hamlet recruits Gertrude and Claudius to play the roles of the treacherous wife and brother of Gonzago — a logic-defying device that almost works.) More distracting are the hipster costumes (by Jessica Ford), which suggest that the court of Elsinore routinely trawls the Top Shop stores for Gaultier and Galliano knockoffs.

She refuses the role of the quietly treacherous interviewer, preferring to remain the spunky heroine of her own drama".