Sentence examples for play not simply from inspiring English sources

There is a larger strategy at play, not simply neglect or indifference, Dimitris Christopoulos, the head of the International Federation for Human Rights, told me.

The particular challenge of Red Peter is to play not simply a chimpanzee — however cute or tough — but a chimp who has learned to dress and move and speak as a man.

Researchers have multiple roles to play, not simply as people skilled in the investigatory process, but as advocates for their research participants in giving voice to often unheard social groups, as drivers of quality improvement through timely publication of new knowledge, and, in the case of non-commercial funding, as guardians of the public purse through efficient organisation and management.

"To be of that generation, covering that span of years, playing not simply Southern but Atlanta Southern — well, I wasn't sure I could play her at all.

He can surpass his peers every time that he plays, not simply through his scoring but through the mesmeric way that he finds space, through the runs that take out four opponents in an instant, and through the movement that most of us would know is Messi even if he were in silhouette.

For many of us, this play was not simply theater, nor even simply political protest — it was a religious experience, a rite of healing.

We have seen this play before, not simply in Iran but in other tyrannies that suppressed mass movements for democratic change with massive violence and terror.

He showed his audience where the leaders stood in relation to par as play progressed, not simply their total score, and he placed microphones on the greens to pick up chatter between the golfers and their caddies.

She has, however, written a genuinely disturbing play: one not simply about nuclear power but about the heavy price we may pay in the future for the profligacy of the present.

"A child's play is not simply a reproduction of what he has experienced, but a creative re-working of the impressions he has acquired" (Vygotsky 2004, p.5).

Albee insists, rightly, that bestiality is the occasion rather than the subject of his play: he is not simply smashing old taboos or writing a hippy, dippy hymn to animal-oriented sex like Rochelle Owens in her 1965 play, Futz.