Sentence examples for playing oneself from inspiring English sources

Watching an actor playing oneself tickles the conceit, which is always gratifying.

It's a question as relevant to Shakespeare's "Hamlet" as it is to "Keeping Up the Kardashians": How can one stop playing oneself?

One witnesses one's invention by life, while one plays oneself like a symphonic conductor, in the meantime dreaming a million dreams...

Because there are wild swings in the amounts a lone card counter wagers — a sure sign to a pit boss monitoring the tables — playing by oneself presents a problem.

All religious belief worthy of the name is a state of freedom; if it doesn't feel like that then it is childishness in the bad sense, self-indulgence, playing with oneself.

Playing by oneself is not always the best course of action, however.

Such an action was one of egotism, playing for oneself, and conveyed immaturity and a poor mental attitude.

It's awfully hard to judge without playing it oneself, but you can usually tell if something truly sucks just from seeing it in motion, and fortunately I don't think that's the case with SFIV.

That one finds oneself playing one's editor at all is a sign of the times.

To take the first notion: on Wittgenstein's view, while chess is essentially a game for two players, this does not exclude the possibility of playing it against oneself provided such solitary games are not regarded as paradigm instances of chess.

From carrying heavy items to exerting oneself playing a game, people who are not used to exercising and have risk factors for heart disease, are at an increased risk.