Sentence examples for unobtrusive role from inspiring English sources

Although the opening pages establish him as a witness to the fall of the wall (we get a later glimpse of him smashing his thumb while trying to chisel away a piece of history), this is not a personal story; Schmemann himself takes an unobtrusive role.

As a general deputy, Honório Hermeto had an unobtrusive role for the first couple of years, having been overshadowed by Bernardo Pereira de Vasconcelos, the leader of the deputies representing Minas Gerais.

Here in Wisconsin, Mr. Walker wants his administration to play as unobtrusive a role as possible, in stark contrast to his predecessor.

It's unobtrusive and intuitive to use.

Interview: Michael Douglas A passive character, impeccably played by Ejiofor in his breakout role after a decade of unobtrusive brilliance.

Mobile phones play a pivotal role in supporting ubiquitous and unobtrusive sensing of human activities.

This stuff is unobtrusive enough to remind me of classic role-playing games in which NPCs were just ciphers of information bobbing on the spot like novelty toys in the back window of a car.

The initial (unstructured) phase will be used here for unobtrusive observations of patterns of activity, staff roles, layout of the settings, and to identify key informants and key locations and practices for phases 2, 3 and 4 of the study (see table 1 for details of the phases).

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Under the unobtrusive direction of Carolyn Cantor, the cast members fill out their roles capably, if with no great depth of feeling.

In this study, the field researcher will employ what Adler and Adler term the 'peripheral-member-researcher' role, where the identity of the researcher is clearly maintained, where observations are largely unobtrusive, but where interaction with participants and participation in some non-clinical tasks (such as making coffee, helping to set up a room for an activity) is undertaken.