11.   Indeed, for all the time Houston spent learning about Excedrin, and for all the time the executives spent with him, his role seemed strangely peripheral.

12.   Its role seems to be to control the number of synapses, or connections between brain cells.

13.   Le Besco ignites the film with a performance of such incandescent spontaneity that the role seems more lived than acted.

14.   Mira Sorvino, too, could easily have allowed her doormat role to seem a whiny turnoff.

15.   Now that the father is a former president, his role seems outsized.

16.   Once someone makes it that far, he noted, the role of genetics seems to decrease.

17.   Some are cast so close to type that the roles seem like sly cameos.

18.   Sometimes that role seems to have grated.

19.   The parental role seems to fit.

20.   The new roles seemed to confuse some of the staff members.