Sentence examples for played it straight from inspiring English sources
The Daily Mirror, the paper most likely to have been hostile in its coverage of Thatcher's demise, played it straight with its splash the day after she died with the headline, "The woman who divided a nation".
The prosecution played the inquisition; the judge played its enthusiastic helper; the defence attorneys played the fool; and only the defendants themselves played it straight, giving pointed political speeches at the end of their ridiculous ordeal.
Like Hampton, he played it straight.
Richardson played it straight; Move played it crooked.
Some of these bios were funny; others played it straight.
Mr. Nelsons and the musicians played it straight, and gloriously.
The twenty-eight-year-old has rarely played it straight.
He played it straight, it seems, only when he was dickering about his pay.
Leigh has chosen that hardest of all options and played it straight.
We took it home and played it straight away and I haven't stopped playing it since.
