Sentence examples for playing it up from inspiring English sources

Within a week, Thatcher – clad in scarlet – was herself demurely playing it up, clearly delighted at the term.

Tomorrow, Adele will once again face her record-store nemesis — or maybe that's playing it up a bit.

But the biographer ultimately couldn't resist the luridness or the pathology of the material, and her informants apparently couldn't resist playing it up for her.

"The best possibility is that it was a hoax and he was guilty of perhaps playing it up, and then things got out of control.

Artur Mas, the president of the Catalan government, has been playing it up ahead of a meeting on Thursday with Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to discuss the terms of a pending fiscal pact.

The videotaped beheading of Nicholas Berg, the young American civilian, by Islamic militants received widely divergent treatment in the Arab press on Wednesday, with most papers playing it up but some ignoring it.

We like to play it up, because every part of New York has its own uniform.

"He plays it up backstage, too!

(A setting by Peter Schickele plays it up).

And it works, so Mr Blair plays it up.

I mean, we played it up – well, I did, anyway – played that up a lot.