Sentence examples for playing to please from inspiring English sources
Players end up playing to please themselves; it's a privilege, or a lark, to be on tour if you're not highly ranked, but rarely a gold mine.
Tired of playing to please?
I'm not playing to please anyone.
He was always good, but he played to please himself.
In Tuesday's first set the musicians played to please themselves, grazing around in standards and arranging on the fly, pushing the music toward abstraction.
"Tell me, cardinal," asked the Princesse de Conti, a kibitzer, "have you observed the many differences between men and women?" "Only what must be obvious to all, which is, a man plays bridge to win, a woman plays to please her partner".
"I don't think development programs are dead around the country," he said, "but playwrights feel they are writing plays to please the different theaters.
The play illustrates Cibber's opportunism at a moment in time before the change was assured: fearless of self-contradiction, he puts something into his first play to please every section of the audience, combining the old outspokenness with the new preachiness.
Yaknow, it was like we were playing to just please ourselves.
And a referee's attempt at playing Cupid to please Jordan, Jackson said, would not be acceptable.
