Sentence examples for it played off from inspiring English sources
It played off Broadway, toured the country for years and, Mr. Richards said, just recently recouped its initial $500,000 investment.
While Sam Raimi's 1983 "Evil Dead" winked at the conventions it played off - young couples stranded in a lonely cabin, possessed by evil spirits, surrounded by foggy moonlight - its sequel turns these cliches into hilariously silly, Three-Stooges-inspired slapstick.
Michelle Obama dismissed a new book's portrayal of her role as first lady, saying it played off an image of her as "some angry black woman" and insisting that she had played little role, at least directly, in the West Wing of the White House.
"I think it played off each other.
That editorial was titled, "I'm Such A Shitty Senator," and it played off the humor that not too many people had really heard of or cared about who Max Baucus was.
Her episode, "Reasonable Doubt," was a memorable one since it played off the real-life story of Woody Allen's child abuse allegations (and also had a Roman Polanski-inspired twist).
The first is Oh, Hello on Broadway, which I had the extreme pleasure of attending when it played Off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre last December.
"But it plays off recent art, too -- questions of multiculturalism and identity," he added.
"Tina's sensibility has worked wonders when it plays off an existing stodgy institution, like Thelonious Monk playing a Rodgers and Hammerstein standard," Hertzberg says.
It plays off gender segregation and the local practice of burying people on top of one another, with a thick layer of earth in between.
