Sentence examples for play upon from inspiring English sources

And marketers play upon it routinely.

"And I definitely didn't play upon my youth.

These kinds of allergies play upon two of our most persistent preoccupations -- health and food.

… Masking is a play upon possibility and ours is a society in which possibilities are many.

He delights in Brecht's revolutionary notion  of how theatre should play upon an audience's feelings.

"I thought: we need to play upon these things that happen in America".

Racism and other forms of prejudice apparently play upon pollution fears.

And Iraqis get their information from the propaganda ministries, which amplify the grief and play upon nationalistic sympathies.

Knowing which party the minister responsible is from will help you identify and play upon their wider priorities.

It's become a shibboleth of contemporary architectural discourse to lisp this play upon Adolf Loos: "form follows finance".

"It's more a psychological weapon" that, if successful, would play upon popular fears about radiation, he said.