Sentence examples for played positively from inspiring English sources

2. September 7th: Haldeman observes that Nixon's excuses have "played positively".

Both sides played positively and had a few good chances, but some things just aren't meant to be.

Lancashire's middle and lower orders flickered: Steven Croft played positively for 38 off 42 balls, as did the the young wicketkeeper, Alex Davies, for 35 from 68, and Tom Smith continued his excellent all-round season with 57 from 98, despite a stiff back that prevented him from bowling later on.

Toby Roland-Jones played positively to score 34 in 79 minutes, then James Harris and Tim Murtagh frustrated Lancashire for a further 26 overs either side of the tea interval, to send the home county down – for the second time in three seasons, and the third in 11 – in crisp afternoon sunshine that hardly suited the depressed Mancunian mood.

Rogers had scored only 89 runs in his first four Ashes innings but the normally cagey left-hander played positively from the outset on Thursday, after Clarke had won the toss for the first time in the series.

Root's magnificent double hundred was the cornerstone of a tremendous batting display in which England played positively and aggressively to post 575-9 - their highest total against the Sri Lankans.

It is in this context that Norwich's errors can be understood as a desperate attempt to play positively at all costs.

"We'll play positively, but there will be times when you come in, the first 30 balls, when you have five men around the bat – you could have half an hour to tea.

He was playing positively and looking in such command that he seemed to have a good chance of becoming the first British player to reach the final of the men's singles since Henry Bunnyy" Austin, the player who introduced shorts to the All England Club, in the unclouded summer of 1938.

"I was really pleased to contribute and to play positively.

England can expect Brendon McCullum to play positively on the fourth morning.