Sentence examples for play fool from inspiring English sources
"play fool" is not a correct or commonly used phrase in written English
It is possible that it may be used in certain dialects or informal speech, but it would not be considered standard usage. It is not clear from the phrase itself what it is intended to mean. If you are asking about the verb "play" followed by the noun "fool," it can be used in the context of someone pretending to be foolish or acting in a foolish manner. For example, "He likes to play the fool to make his friends laugh." In this sentence, "play the fool" means to act silly or foolish for entertainment purposes.
In Shepard's play "Fool for Love" (1983), two lovers quarrel in a foul motel room on the edge of the Mojave Desert.
In 2010, he released a solo album, published a memoir, acted alongside Sadie Frost in the play Fool for Love and joined indie supergroup The Bottletop Band.
What made Carmichael notable was that he could play fool parts in a way that did not cut the characters completely off from human sympathy: a certain dignity was always maintained, so that any pathos did not become bathos.
The 1983 play "Fool for Love" (in revival at the Samuel J. Friedman and conscientiously directed by Daniel Aukin) displays all the skill that Shepard developed when crafting his longer family plays but sacrifices none of the intensity and oddness of the earlier work.
Mr. Shepard said that the scene was direct from life, as was a moment in the play "Fool for Love," when a character called the Old Man says he was once married to Barbara Mandrell "in my mind," and "that's realism".
He wrote the screenplay for Paris, Texas, the great, atmospheric Wim Wenders film, and played another cowboy-ish character in Robert Altman's adaptation of Shepard's stage play Fool for Love, fixing an image in the public imagination of both him and a remote, fly-blown America a world away from the metropolises on either coast.
True to hip-hop self-assertion, Outkast and the Roots projected more bravado, even when their songs were about contradictory impulses: work and play, fooling around and fidelity, "thuggin"' and idealism.
Both are tough guys who don't suffer fools gladly and never play fools because it just wouldn't work.
But I still get the same feeling of play, fooling around with the ordinary things I find".
Rhys Ifans playing fool: check.
They call it "playing fool to catch wise".
