The phrase "cool play" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a fun or impressive performance or action in a game or sport. Example: "Did you see that cool play by the quarterback? He dodged three defenders and threw a perfect pass to his receiver."
Some of our latter-day cool expressions -- "stay cool," "play it cool," "cool as a cucumber," "cool customer" -- play off this ancient connotation of implacability.
Even his title is genius: "A Void" (think about it: He not only avoided the "e's" in "The Disappearance," but he also slipped in a dash of metaphysical angst and a cool play on words).
But maybe the 41-year-old Mr. Rubio (whom Mitt Romney probably should have chosen as his running mate if he had wanted a real new-generation partner instead of Paul Ryan, whose idea of a cool play list fizzles out around 1985) is smarter than that.
This willful non-event is the culmination of de Kretser's cool play with conventional reader expectations about how much, and how meaningfully, two disparate lives should matter to each other when they finally converge after pages and pages of parallel-track narratives.
Here's a fairly cool play through of the game and this lets you play it online, just so you can whet your appetite for 8-bit action.
Anyway, it's a cool play to get more people to check out Copious, which launched last year to essentially be a more personalized eBay with a social backbone.
"I guess it's cool playing for a platoon, though.
"We do something pretty cool playing hockey, so I am excited every game to play," he said.
Fortunately, he was cool playing along, too.
Men feel cool playing the lute.
Even Harrison Ford didn't appear quite as cool playing Han Solo as he entered his early 40s.
