Sentence examples for play lay from inspiring English sources

But the virtue of the play lay in the complexity of its portrait of Charles.

The play lay dormant until it was rediscovered by Sterling Lord, Kerouac's longtime agent, who turned up a manuscript while working on his memoirs recently.

The pedagogic content of the play lay in the story of the one patient with an actual medical complaint: a pain in her breast.

But it is a clear, soundly conceived production that reminds you that, beneath the imperishable beauty of Chekhov's play, lay intimations of revolutionary upheaval.

Apart from a single production at the Hartford Stage Company in Connecticut a few months later (plus a few subsequent European productions), the play lay forgotten for decades.

Somewhere in the play lay a much richer story about the tension between order and freedom and the sexual preoccupation of the coloniser with the enslaved.

The beauty of the original play lies in its ambivalence.

INDIANAPOLIS — The beauty in Michigan State's play lies in its scoring distribution.

The greatness of the play lies in the fact he is probably both.

The fascination of the play lies in seeing divine anger exacerbated by human folly.

To my mind, the heart of the play lies in the relationship of Prospero and Ariel.