Sentence examples for been played off from inspiring English sources

"I have come here many times before and been played off the park," Gerrard said.

(Never mind the incantations that pass for dialogue. What about the equation of one woman's suffering with the destruction of a whole city?) But images and sounds had never before been played off of one another so boldly, with such freedom; and given the horrific content of some of those images, the beauty of others, the film still has the power to shock and astonish.

It has been playing, off and on, around the world, ever since.

It has been playing off and off off Broadway for more than a year.

Private initiative is played off against communal symmetry.

The torture of Christina (Cloris Leachman) is played off screen.

The situation is archetypal: art is being played off against commerce.

Surely, I said, the factions could be played off against each other.

Then everyone whooped as they were played off stage by the band.

In it warm, sunny hues are played off against cool ones on a solid black ground.

This is racism's newest mutation--multicultural racism, where one ethnic group can be played off against another.