What is "minor role"

Usage examples of "minor role".

But it was Darcy Dwyer, who was playing the minor role of the Burgomeister in which, his devotees in the Guild assured one another, he was quite thrown away.

The chief tale in which centaurs are prominent involves the marriage of Pirithous, a friend of Theseus (he does not appear in this play but he has a minor role in The Two Noble Kinsmen, see page I-56).

All in all, it baffles this traveler why a man would willingly submit to such a minor role, but Outislanders seem likewise baffled by our arrangements, asking me sometimes, “.

In the Spanish conquest of the Incas, guns played only a minor role.

Danube's stern expression showed that he wasn't ready to accept that notion, that he understood that whatever Constance's actions to prevent or allow conception had been, he, too, had played more than a minor role.

She seems to have taken little advantage of this and played a minor role in Olympian drama.

Lostara herself had been indifferent to the whole affair, and had been nowhere close to the best of the students in their minor role in the performance.

It is disturbing to see that vision being abandoned, or relegated to a minor role.

All in all, it baffles this traveller why a man would willingly submit to such a minor role, but Outislanders seem likewise baffled by our arrangements, asking me sometimes, 'Why do your women willingly leave the wealth of their own families to become servants in a man's home?

Danube had at first resisted, and strongly, despite his feelings of goodwill toward the man who, it was well known, had played more than a minor role in securing Jilseponie as Danube’.

After an initial rush of male pride, they quickly recognized the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction, and quietly withdrew into a baffled reserve, catalysts to an explosion they couldn’.

The elf had played only a minor role in the battle, fired only a single arrow.