Sentence examples for for real stakes from inspiring English sources

Fantasy politics, but for real stakes.

We had to gamble for real stakes and to shoot guns.

What promised to be a game is a game for real stakes.

Shot on digital video, "Chuck and Buck" feels appropriately small and clammy, but its emotions are played for real stakes rather than for easy effects of shock and disgust.

But the characters, Madame Armfeldt most of all, played for the real stakes.

It also wards away an essential ingredient for art: real stakes.

While the Conlon brothers are both fighting for the money, the real stakes are much deeper.

Still, the war may prove to have a fictional afterlife as long as Napoleon's wars or World War II, although the real stakes (for us, not them) were much lower in Vietnam.

In order for you to truly pine, there has to be the feeling that there are real stakes involved for the characters.

It really grounded everybody — the real stakes that are true for gay men of that generation".

But the real stakes are higher still.