Sentence examples for half the play from inspiring English sources

Another year, she's allowed to be Sleeping Beauty – but only for half the play, while Beauty's asleep.

(Maybe it was all the water imagery, but I fought off tears for half the play, not always successfully).

The latter can be plausible only if she takes everyone's breath away: here Genevieve O'Reilly is too bland and too badly costumed – for half the play swathed in a sort of Quaker bandage.

After a dullish first half, the play flares into life with Suez: Macmillan, who was both a principal architect of Suez and its ultimate beneficiary, emerges as a complex figure, justly condemned by Anthony Eden as a mixture of Judas and back-stabbing Brutus.

More than half the play is devoted to making this machinery grind to inexorable life.

Osborne had written just about half the play when Miller took himself, his wife and a deeply resistant Olivier to see Look Back in Anger.

This fan is most easily done with approximately half the playing card deck, although it can be done with a whole deck with practice.

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla .— The front half of the play sparkled.

Sometimes, if things really need sorting, I cut the first half of the play.

The dialogue is spare and aimless; almost half of the play is silence.

The slammer setting naturally brings a new perspective on this half of the play.