Sentence examples for play devolved from inspiring English sources

This is when the play devolved into an Abbott and Costello routine.

He seemingly had time to recite the poem "Ozymandias" — backward, in Ukrainian — before the play devolved into an incompletion on the other side of the field.

The all-male ménage of the play devolves instantly into a jungle of craven creatures when the scent of estrogen perfumes their seedy digs.

But when Harper arrives on the scene, barking angrily at her father in Russian, the play devolves into a self-consciously quirky and ultimately sentimental story of hard-won healing between uncommunicative father and wounded daughter.

He recalls a troubling incident from his own childhood when he and a friend were entrusted with the care of a small boy and their playing devolved into a cruel game of mockery and spite, a game that might have ended in tragedy had a passer-by not fortuitously intervened.

But the play unfortunately devolves into a political rant.

In Bohemia, the play quickly devolves into a welter of confusions, complete with disguises, buffoonery and a quintessential Shakespearean trickster.

The Patriots are all over him so fast on every play the offense has devolved into getting back to the line of scrimmage.

Daly didn't sentimentalize those parts of Terrence McNally 's play that could have devolved into the usual diva-solipsism — specifically those moments when Daly-as-Callas talked about her great love and nemesis, Aristotle Onassis — but lifted them up and shed some light on the delicious masochistic thrill that can be the diva's quest once she's conquered the world outside her bedroom.

What I had expected would be an honest conversation about the role men play in rape prevention devolved into a purely academic dissection of sampling methods and survey instruments.

"They just devolved into pressing play-stop-repeat-play-stop-repeat over and over again," he says.