Sentence examples for abject play from inspiring English sources

In a uniformly excellent cast, Tim Mullen is hilariously funny as a theatre critic who is trying to promote the script of his abject play.

They have embraced abject playing of spin bowling, continued unreliable batting in the summer, a lauded bowling attack being made to look pedestrian in the climactic series of the home summer and catching which could hardly have been worse if the culprits had been trying to avoid poisonous flying ants carrying razor-sharp flick knives.

Has-been conveys a sense that these performers are abject rejects playing for nickels and dimes in Altoona.

"Has-been" conveys a sense that these performers are abject rejects playing for nickels and dimes in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

Beckett would probably scorn the idea that the simple life is morally healthier than the superficially opulent one; the regal puffery of Pozzo hides a dependence on his slave, Lucky, that is shown to be utterly abject in the play's second act.

Again, his play was abject.

To see the Iraq War as anything but misguided, unnecessary, and an abject failure is to play into the hands of the fear-mongers who insist that when it comes to national security all Americans (members of Congress included) should defer to the judgment of the executive branch.

"We've played some great football at times this season and we've played some abject stuff as well, most notably at Torquay, and then against Burton".

From the tree-tops of the Forest of Bowland and the summit of Beacon Fell, they bellow it: no other team in England has as abject a history of play-off failure as Preston North End from Deepdale.

This was Everton's fourth successive away league defeat and I can't remember when I have seen such abject defending on set plays.

"We had an abject lesson in how to play at Spotland from the Rochdale players.