Sentence examples for calculated play from inspiring English sources

AT&T's decision to acquire T-Mobile - paying almost twice its estimated value - was a coldly calculated play for spectrum.

Rather, they believe, Rolex's reticence was a calculated play.

Although the paintings are meticulous and calculated, Play More's installations are the exhibition's true magnum opus.

It's difficult to tell if all of these incendiary statements reflect to quote his Twitter handle the Real Mark Latham, or if he's given up all of his ethics and beliefs in a calculated play for attention.

Meanwhile, outside, Mohamad (Trezzo Mahoro) befriends a girl who doesn't fear vampires, and Rebecca Laura Mennelll) makes a calculated play against the Renaissance leadership.

So if the calculated, play-it-safe world of lip-syncing bothers you, think about joining us in the world of naked acoustic music at the opera.

But their evasive, calculating, play-it-safe approach left their candidate vulnerable to a full-throated challenge from the right.

Elizabeth, who spends the early part of the drama speaking in aphorisms calculated to play well in public, privately condemns her people as "greasy filth and scum".

Everything is perfectly calculated to play to pre-adolescents' obsessions.

The government sees plurality in national and local news as a priority and, given that this deal would, they claim, keep ITV local news viable until at least 2016, Grade's revelation was calculated to play to that agenda.

With Gone Girl calculated to play to arthouse as well as multiplex audiences, and with the London film festival opening this week, the weekend did not prove attractive to distributors of niche fare.