Sentence examples for calculated to play from inspiring English sources

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

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".

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.

But in an interview with the BBC he warned again that the North would have to show good faith, noting: "We do not want to go into another round of artificial talks that are clearly calculated to play a game.

Instead of embracing this challenge, they ducked it, serving up a rickety, often cheesy spectacle that is calculated to play well to a certain segment of the already enlisted choir but risks being ignored or scorned in other quarters.

Brown made a conscious decision to return to his signature sound, saying his use of EDM was a calculated move to play more live shows.

Monday night's non-committal statement by the Newspaper Society suggests that many powerful players are still calculating whether to play ball.

"So Kissinger asks Putin, 'What did you do before this?' And Putin says, 'I was in the secret service.' And Kissinger says, 'Me, too!' " Shadkhan has a lot of good stories about Vladimir Putin (pronounced POO-teen), all seemingly calculated to reveal traits that will play well to a Western audience.

Anderssen was noted for his ability to discover combination plays calculated to force an immediate decision.

"There are so many ratios and levers to be calculated to make a good playing action," said Mr. Pasi of Roy, Wash., who spent 18 months making the organ.