Sentence examples for are played for from inspiring English sources

Both its realist details and the hero's rebellion are played for comic, rather than tragic, potential.

This is how soccer's major prizes are played for, paid for, and executed.

They each have useful powers, but their ensemble scenes are played for laughs rather than logic.

Two rubbish-pickers who find a corpse are played for laughs as much as Hamlet's gravediggers.

And both are played for money, although on a different scale.

Daily fantasy games are played for real money and are very much gambling.

The horrors of the upper-class marriage mart, so mordantly portrayed in her earlier novels, are played for gentle comedy.

The process usually involves meetings and consultations during which sounds are played for the director, who provides feedback.

Now they are playing for him.

"You are playing for yourself.

You are playing for immortality".