533 examples of roles in sentences

Once the piece was accepted it passed into the domain of the theatre, and the actors felt at liberty to interpret the roles according to their ideas and traditions.

Then with the aid of Roles, king of some of the Getae, he destroyed them.

Roles when he visited Caesar was treated as a friend and ally for this assistance: the captives were distributed to the soldiers.

[-26-] While he was so occupied he received a summons from Roles, who had become embroiled with Dapyx, himself also a king of the Getae.

When prices are falling the roles are reversed, and we are likely to see the sellers tumbling over one another in a frantic eagerness to sell, the buyers wary and aloof.

I saw that men were not at all stinted in the distribution of the roles to be played, and I therefore became a man.

She was very dramatic, and made her chief success in men's roles, singing bass songs transposed an octave higher.

Indeed such early dramatists as Ennius and Accius had already felt the need of developing the interest of feminine roles when they paraphrased classical Greek plays for their audiences.

Unconscious actors,it may be That here we painfully rehearse, In parts, whose plots we do not see, Some drama of the universe, Advanced, as nobler grow our souls, To loftier roles.

Across the valley, steeped in light, Uplifted toward the western skies, And flanked by many a snow-crowned height, The stately "Roman Terrace" lies; Whose fair expanse hath been a stage Where actors for two thousand years Have played, by turns, in every age Their varying roles of smiles and tears.

For once their respective roles were reversed, he the talker, she the listener.

Plays took them to the Killarney Rose and once more Miss Clay expressed her pleasure in the girl's rendering of one of her own favorite roles.

[Footnote 4: In modern usage the roles and regulations of clubs, learned societies, and other associations, are also called by-laws.]

That is why I was anxious to have the war end and embrace the first opportunity to change our roles.

Melun had changed roles with Paris.

Rossini seems to have fallen in love with her art and herself, and he wrote ten roles for her.

Slim and the Captain, still in their roles of mammy and pickaninny, walked home with the Winnebagos when the party finally broke up, the pickaninny trundling his own one-wheeled chariot, which was so full of presents there was no room for him.

And in her eager desire to compass all the Master's work, she did not hesitate to compromise her reputation for power and vigor by attempting roles of lighter or tenderer vein.

Such a change can hardly have come about without historical reasons and although the exact circumstances must perhaps remain obscure, we can see in this sharp reversal of roles a clear response to certain Indian needs.

Sawant Singh's delight seems to have been shared by a local artist, Nihal Chand, for under the Raja's direction he produced a number of pictures in which Radha and Krishna sustained the leading roles.

Girls of that generation at Mt. Holyoke will not forget their Indian fellow student who "starred" in Shakespearian roles and brought a new Oriental atmosphere to the pages of the college magazine.

His exquisite harmonies in the dramatic art and lyric declamation were beautiful indeed, but the æsthetic beauties which he brought forth in the roles that he interpreted, must, alas!

One's particular vocation (or congenial line of work) is the first condition in either of these departments of art, and into the consideration of this must enter that of physical beauty such as the roles demand; always considering what has been named "the physique" of the situation.

People born into a rapidly changing society are often tempted and sometimes compelled to play significant roles in the revolutionary process.

The roles of women are the important ones in the works of this author.

533 examples of  roles  in sentences