Sentence examples for play loosely from inspiring English sources

The show wisely avoids this strategy, casting actors who play loosely consistent character types.

Much like the pianist Martial Solal — a fellow Frenchman and Peiffer's counterpart in the clubs of postwar Paris — Mr. Terrasson is known to play loosely with structure.

The film draws from Beau Willimon's Farragut North, a play loosely based on Howard Dean's 2004 Democratic primary campaign.

"The Golden Dragon" plays loosely with ideas about the alienation endemic in contemporary culture.

More recently, she has written two plays loosely based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter".

Jennifer Vanderbes, in her first novel, "Easter Island," plays loosely with the facts of Routledge's 1914-15 sojourn and adds a contemporary narrative of her own.

— There was a little bit of everything in the first round of the season's last major championship, played — loosely speaking — Thursday at Oakland Hills.

Big bands mainly thrived on their compositions and arrangements (Henderson's were exemplary), whereas small groups usually played loosely, to put the musicians' solos front and center.

After playing loosely in building a 53-43 learlyarly in the third quarter, the Knicks, who led by 30-19 after one quarter, began repeating the meltdown that cost them a 20-point lead in last week's loss at Indiana.

I'm Not There In this unconventional Bob Dylan biopic, Ledger is one of six actors playing loosely fictionalised versions of the singer at various phases of his early career, incarnating the singer just as he was breaking through as a movie star in the Seventies.

In a fidgety display, Hutton played loosely outside the off stump and missed four times in one Johnston over.