Sentence examples for playing upon from inspiring English sources

The elites gradually gained the allegiance of the lower-class Protestants by playing upon sectarian fears.

Yet he also helped begin its descent by playing upon chauvinist Muslim fears for political gain.

Even when playing upon a Jamesian ambiguity, Larkin never relinquished clarity.

But they were manipulated by demagogues playing upon their fears — the 19th- and 20th-century equivalents of Glenn Beck.

It is the product of a hundred unseen forces playing upon the little infant, the child and, finally, the man".

Playing upon the public's interest in the unusual and bizarre, Barnum scoured the world for curiosities, living or dead, genuine or fake.

And marketers play upon it routinely.

The key concept the marketers played upon was choice.

The show's design cleverly plays upon this.

It plays upon all the contemporary intimations of apocalypse.

They played upon historical grievances toward Russians and Germans.