Sentence examples for playing up for from inspiring English sources

Some are gamely playing up for the assembled press, showing off circus skills and generally clowning around.

Sir Elton John's image, his glasses askew and playing up for the camera in Irving Penn's 1997 portrait, greets visitors to The Radical Eye.

The Force Awakens premiere had familiar elements for a Star Wars event: Stormtroopers marched and droids rolled down the red carpet, with C-3PO greeting fans and new addition BB-8 playing up for the cameras.

Flipping onto his back and stomach like a fish out of water, he takes many of the story's images literally — playing up, for instance, Beckett's reference to a dog by transforming himself into one.

In Edinburgh, Forde recorded an episode with Brexiteer and Tory MP Tim Loughton, who was, at best, cavalier about the referendum result, cracking jokes and playing up for the crowd.

If he weren't such a goof, always playing up for the cameras and contributing to the idea that he might not take the game that seriously, he might not have had to field this question.

"We play up for the hierarchy teams and we don't play as well against some of the teams at the bottom of the totem pole.

Playing up front for the Grifone was a striker by the name of Percy Walsingham.

James Milner and Frank Lampard are playing up front for Manchester City now.

He went on, "Some of this is played up for commercial or political effect.

Taking to Twitter after the show Neil said Jones had played up for the camera.