What is "playing a part"

Usage examples of "playing a part".

Dread years lay ahead, and she might find herself playing a part in them, and for that she had no ambition.

Language was part of the problem, but distrust was playing a part, also.

Drawing a breath, Gillian told herself that if she was playing a part she should play it well.

And there was a third element playing a part: his desire to create a mythology for England.

Rap felt as if he were playing a part in one of Kadie's romantic dramas.

For the past year he had done his work, dated women, visited Petal and gone to the supermarket like an actor playing a part, pretending for the sake of verisimilitude that this was the real him, but knowing in his heart of hearts that it was not.

Heather's hackles had risen at the idea that she might be playing a part in some vast propaganda machine.

Too many time-wasters, too many clowns who were more interested in grabbing a share of the limelight than playing a part in creating something special.

But he stands for Norway, and it's always good for me to start with Hedda when I want to get the feeling of playing a part again.

Yes, but Globalists insisted that all evidence to the effect that the Empire existed was either illusion or deliberate deceit, that Imperial emissaries and officials were Heliconians playing a part for some reason.