Sentence examples for popularity playing from inspiring English sources

During the past several years, though, Mr. Leggio has enjoyed renewed popularity, playing regularly in the suburbs within an hour's drive of his Tarrytown apartment.

An imposing figure with a trademark beard and exuberant personality, he first found a following playing Dixieland jazz but reached the height of his popularity playing rock and pop music.

Popularity plays a part in name selection too.

By confronting readers with Hitler's charisma, the author highlights the role that public popularity played in Hitler's rise to power.

While her personal popularity played a big role in her primary win, she also clearly had become a very skilled politician.

There is something potentially wonderful in seeing a star of Ms. Roberts's magnetism and popularity play the ugly duckling; such transparent counter-typecasting was part of the fun of the studio comedies "America's Sweethearts" longs to replicate.

And we see the vicious politics of fifth-grade popularity played out as the class bully targets Auggie and starts a campaign to shun him, culminating in an overnight school trip that turns scary and shuffles the social deck in ways no one could have imagined.

A 132-year-old honky-tonk with a capacity of 500 is not where a 77-year-old icon at the height of his popularity plays, even for a hundred bucks a ticket, but this particular combination makes sense: the quintessential Texas musician in the quintessential Texas dance hall.

Electronic decision support systems have grown in popularity, play an important role in providing up-to-date resources for point-of-care use, and have been demonstrated to improve processes of medical care and patient outcomes [ 4- 7].

The two, of many, types of poker, in order of popularity, played are no-limit hold 'em and limit hold 'em.

During his first month in office, he boosted his popularity by playing to the public, spurning investors' demands for details of his economic plans.