At the same time, Huizenga hired Marino for an ill-defined role over Spielman and Wannstedt.

Isabella Rossellini, who has yet to get a good part in a respectable American movie, plays another ill-defined role, that of Mr. Dafoe's Mexican mistress, whose greatest distinction is her unnaturally blond hair.

As the President's main "outside" lawyer, Mr. Kendall has an ill-defined role; there are few explicit guidelines governing his relationship with Bernard W. Nussbaum, the White House counsel, and his staff.

They are Fritz, rendered nicely manic by Lee Smikle, and Sugar, an ill-defined role with which Michela Meazza does valiant battle.

The self-conscious laughter that accompanies their tales of weight gain and sympathy pains reveals their discomfort over their new and ill-defined roles.

Russian newspapers are already speculating brazenly about her ill-defined role.

They always seem to play an ill-defined role in man's affairs.

Mr. Northam's ill-defined role is merely to be a calming influence.

Because the immune system plays an important but ill-defined role in cancer, the risk of cancer is a hazard of powerful immune-suppressing drugs.

Competing With Recess But the discussions until now have also involved a constellation of other officials, some of them in ill-defined roles.