Sentence examples for playing matters from inspiring English sources

To Lofton, playing matters, although he has resigned himself to looking at the larger picture.

McLeish admits it has been a traumatic time but knows he has to focus on playing matters at Villa.

Garcia is middle-aged; he has always been our most improbable pop-culture idol, somebody to whom the playing matters more than the posing.

Selling either of them would leave Roberto Martinez with little time to identify and pursue a replacement, especially with his focus now on playing matters after the season got underway over the weekend.

According to Guus Hiddink, the Dutchman currently in charge of playing matters at Makhachlaka, Samba was gone without so much as saying goodbye once the release clause took effect.

That is particularly so in Mourinho's case because he had demanded complete control of playing matters to the point where the board agreed in May 2011 to ax its trusted director of football, Jorge Valdano.

How orchestras play matters.

Every extra minute Hibbert can play matters.

It should be chiseled above the doors of every symphony hall: What an orchestra plays matters as much as how it plays, if not more so.

The shopworn conceit begs lampooning, yet director Greg Mottola – seeking a return to the studios' better graces seven years on from Adventureland – plays matters blandly straight.

Whether we feel life is like a blank canvas to paint, an ocean to traverse, a box of chocolates to sample, or a game to play, matters.