Sentence examples for plays less well from inspiring English sources

Bader has the kind of tart, cocky wit that can work a room, but its "Look, Ma, I'm dancing" quality plays less well onstage.

The headline played less well in court.

As Britons lost their patient obsequiousness, Mr Routh's pranks played less well.

It is a promise that may play less well in states without the memory of that irrepressible people's politician.

Lagarde says in Handelsblatt that Schäuble told her the German export debate was like football: why should he tell Bayern to play less well?

Lauded by critics as a literary feat (the first volume appeared in English last summer), the book played less well among Knausgaard's own family members.

"It's no fun to be in a group with people who play less well," said David Greenwald, the federal prosecutor and an oboist.

People encapsulate this suspicion by saying that two years ago Italy would have played less well but seen off Romania instead of drawing with them.

Mr. Perahia's virtue makes me a little uncomfortable, but what am I to do? Ask him to play less well?

In a nation hungry for heroes Todd Beamer stands out as America's martyr - but there were other figures who played less well known but more crucial parts in the passengers' rebellion aboard Flight 93.

That he and his works found favour with succeeding Russian regimes has arguably tended to play less well in the west than the open or covert dissidence of many of his colleagues.