The debate challenge helps persuade the media to cast Gore in this unlikely role.

Those were credentials enough to cast him in the unlikely role of savior.

That means assuming the most unlikely role of his career: civic activist.

Norman Mailer chose to take on the unlikely role of peacemaker.

Therefore, it's up to Tanker, in the unlikely role of Servo, to save the day.

For the last few weeks he has found himself in the unlikely role of a media star, appearing regularly on television and radio talk shows.

In its aftermath, George takes up the unlikely role of town hero.

Now he found himself in the unlikely role of rescuer, holding his pocket cellular phone up as if it were a live grenade.

The process casts the district's superintendent, a career educator, in the unlikely role of real estate mogul, a job for which he may have no training.

Given the present emotional climate, that is an unlikely role.