Sentence examples for is played off from inspiring English sources

Private initiative is played off against communal symmetry.

In a deliberate study in contrasts, warm stone is played off against smooth concrete and cratered walls face metallic rails.

In all three parts, the enactment of Christ's sacrifice is played off against the droll hubbub of the actors' selfishness.

The softness of this landscape is played off against a number of small wild gardens peppered with sweet-gum trees and dogwood shrubs.

Everywhere, the presence of people is played off against timeworn urban architecture to suggest the vitality of a country struggling to life again.

The first is a matter of texture, as the sumptuous is played off against the earthen in parallel, you might say, with the cast list of princes and paupers.

But the movie is so loath to show violence that the film's climactic scene is played off-screen, and the camera observes the aftermath from a leery distance as if the film were afraid of contamination.

It is playing off Broadway, not on Broadway.

Clearly, this is playing off the idea that black people are somehow dirty.

Praise was spared for drummer Aaron Harris also; on this release, "everyone is playing off Harris and following his lead dynamically.

It is playing off a latent fear in the American psyche, often one that is racially motivated.