Sentence examples for by a single play from inspiring English sources

Can a player's career be defined by a single play?

Of course, no game is completely determined by a single play.

Reputations are not transformed by a single play, a single shot, a single victory.

In Phil Jackson parlance, a game was not decided by a single play — it would "turn on a trifle".

It makes no sense to speak of the independence of a move from other given moves by reference to a single play; this can only be done by reference to a multitude of plays.

Unlike Robert McCrum in his fascinating choice of the top 100 English-language novels, I also decided to represent certain writers by more than a single play.

However, a full edition of Shakespeare would require a publisher to make a large commitment of time and money, so Johnson decided to begin by focusing on a single play, Macbeth.

I graduated without having read for credit "The Odyssey," "Paradise Lost," a single play by Shakespeare or a single novel by Jane Austen, George Eliot or Henry James.

Mr. Labbé, however, fails to draw any such comparisons, except with a single play by Racine, "Les Plaideurs," considered semantically atypical by specialists.

He was prompted to do this by the news that not a single play was shortlisted for this year's New South Wales Premier's literary awards.

Developed from a single play by Troy Kennedy Martin, Z Cars was the first cops-and-robbers series to treat policemen as fallible human beings, to get away from the Scotland Yard scene in favour of a raw, sprawling, new-town landscape, and to anticipate the policing by motor car that would soon be general.