Miss Whitelaw, in the flashier role, seems to be all teeth and over-the-hill coquettishness, a woman whose hope is as angry as her despair.

She brings a blaring Mermanesque verve to her flashy role.

What a shame the writer pointed out the more recent flashy roles and ignored all that solid work she did with Alan Bleasdale.

These are the flashiest roles in the canon for actors between the ages of Hamlet and Lear.

Stanhope, the flashiest role, was first portrayed by a young Laurence Olivier.

"Steven Gold was the colorful, flashy, dramatic role," she says.

Now the knowledge that the flashy role of Alabama Whitman may be a career maker has frightened her.

Mr. Harris's coach is not a flashy role.

But a flashy leading role does not insure a credible or coherent movie.

Mr. Gibson gets the flashier role, as the risk-taking half of a detective team.