Sentence examples for does not exactly play from inspiring English sources

The Bayreuth acoustical aesthetic (clear, resonant vocal sound in a largely wooden enclosure; warm, almost muffled orchestra sound emanating from a covered pit) does not exactly play into this conductor's hands.

Coincidentally, Jackson will inherit a freewheeling Warriors team that doesn't exactly play lockdown defense.

As N.B.A. owners go, Mikhail D. Prokhorov doesn't exactly play hard to get, at least not in America.

Vida doesn't exactly play this loss for laughs, but her sense of the absurd does permit the possibility of black humour.

"If it looks like all you're trying to do is being nasty and you don't have much substance, it doesn't exactly play well with a partisan audience".

The chunkily austere packaging of this special edition — complete with hardback brochure and commentary-rich extras – doesn't exactly play this side up, but it's a handsome piece.

Then again, Zatoo's live streaming model doesn't exactly play into Long Tail theory either, unless it can win hundreds of channel partners.

We've asked him to do some things that don't exactly play to his strengths".

And if Keaton didn't exactly play characters utterly devoid of will, he at least portrayed those who were pure of heart.

The release was headlined "Ukip 'own goal' with campaign against comedians", and sure enough, the Little Englanders didn't exactly play a blinder.

There's a long tradition in Chicago jazz of pragmatic experimentation, bands that don't exactly play in the common language but still aren't breathing fire or going all out.