Sentence examples for unfortunate role from inspiring English sources

Economic ideology has also played an unfortunate role.

It has the unfortunate role of being at the end of most of our drains for all kinds of waste washed from the land.

Mr. Cobain proved an unfortunate role model to some younger followers, inspiring a few copycat suicides and fueling speculation that there could be a wave of such imitations.

I don't think it's a waste of time to discuss how that misplaced focus happened, including the unfortunate role played by some economists who have done fine work in the past and will presumably do fine work in the future.

Szwed also traces an offshoot of that project, the 1947 movie "New Orleans," an altogether more conventional Hollywood production about jazz musicians that features Holiday in the unfortunate role of a housemaid with a gift for singing the blues.

AS the battle for the White House has raged across the country this spring, New Jersey has been relegated to the unfortunate role of automated teller machine: a place candidates visit when they need money.

The bookies who made this name the favourite actually seem to have thought little about unfortunate royal role models in calculating the odds on other names.

The most unfortunate part of these cases is the number of times overkill plays a role.

It is unfortunate that the role of "mom" has lost value in recent years.

The man seems to aspire to live The Sopranos, which is an unfortunate choice of role models.

The reactions to this intervention varied, however the issues raised included the typical Bruce-fashioned ones questioning the power of the institutional art monarchs, highlighting the unavoidable referential manner of all art, and emphasizing the unfortunate but unavoidable role of cold, hard cash in the creative process.