On a deeper level, game playing substitutes for role playing.
His couture show for Dior in the summer, when he again played substitute designer, had been panned by the critics.
The home side were pressing for the second goal but against the run of play substitute Barnes, who had replaced Alan Navarro, equalised.
As I wrote in 2006, "I had a full family -- my mother, grandmother, uncles and, later, stepfathers -- all of whom played substitute.
One would imagine that it would be a useful thing to be able to say that someone definitively benefited from the summer-long fake hostage-crisis kabuki play we just endured, if only because now that we're facing a future of constant fake hostage-crisis kabuki plays substituting for a functional form of governance.
Rereading "Ellen Tebbits," I was pleased to be reminded of good details I'd forgotten about, like a dramatic beet-pulling scene and Ellen's role in a play as a substitute rat.
Adrien Brody plays a substitute teacher named Henry Barthes, who arrives at a high school in crisis: standards have slumped, the principal (Marcia Gay Harden) is being fired, and her faculty members — played by a strong roll call of actors, including Christina Hendricks, Blythe Danner, William Petersen, Lucy Liu, and a super-seedy James Caan — look hollowed out and spent.
Formal training is almost non-existent, indoor play substituting as preparation for outdoor matches.
All he could do was begin recasting the play, substituting Pashtun jihadi commanders for non-Pashtun ones.
From when he joined the Canadiens in 1910, until being forced to retire in 1925, Vézina never missed a game nor allowed a substitute, playing in 328 consecutive regular season games and an additional 39 playoff games.
