Parts in a movie

Usage examples of roles.

To automatically assume that differentiation of roles is the result of domination is to automatically define a particular group as victim, which automatically and irrevocably disempowers that group in the very attempt to liberate it.

I did not want to think about how deeply I had slipped back into my old roles as spy and assassin.

I think only realized that our roles had changed when she pushed me gently down into her chair.

She would never again believe us to be merely master and man: we had bungled our roles too often.

And if I vouchsafed some pleasantry that strayed outside the limit of those roles, he ignored it.

All my roles had shifted, not just with Prince Dutiful and Jinna and Lord Golden.

Both men have high-profile roles in CANF, the dominant anti-Castro lobby that claims not to support violence or terrorism.

This curious blending of roles meant, in practice, that when Moose needed to slap sense into one of his players, he felt sure he did it with the hand of God.

The great crime of Claudius or of Nero was that they indolently allowed their slaves and freedmen to take on these roles of agent and representative of the master, or to serve him as counselor.

In effect, these sex roles enslave us--force us to be what others want us to be.

When the gods of Virtu assume their roles, they also take on some aspects of the creatures whose form and habits they have adopted.