Sentence examples for playing a fool from inspiring English sources

But unless you are playing a "fool" you do not get to checkmate while your opponent has almost all of his pieces on the board.

Marc Camoletti's Boeing Boeing, which ran for seven years in London in the 1960s, tempted him back on stage because he wanted to play a fool.

Nobody plays a fool quite like Pete Rose, dangling contrition just enough to pull at the heartstrings of a public that feels there is nothing more un-American than banning baseball's all-time hits leader from the game.

But I can still make some pretty mean balloon animals and I'm still great with other people's kids, who are always fascinated by a grownup who is willing to play a fool.

Playing a holy fool who rarely knows what he's talking about but always speaks the truth, he gives George shades of compassion and rue, and makes his apparently thoughtless comments explode like depth charges.

You are playing Guybrush, a fool.

He is too much a man's man to play a bumbling fool for love.

Through Aug. 10 The producer, director and star of his own magic theater, Teun Hocks plays a holy fool and metaphysical seeker in his large, funny and mysterious photographs.

Perhaps the Taliban were playing a credulous Karzai for a fool all along.

"I thought she was playing an April's Fool joke," he said, until he saw her splayed in the snow surrounded by the ski patrol.

He isn't fooling anyone playing a cranky, dried-out Florida retiree.