Dramatics such as his threat to resign play well in the cheap seats, but their price may be the return of the Tories as a political force.
They are the celluloid crinklies, long since resigned to playing character parts.
Ponomariov resigned after playing 52... Kd5 because he could not stop Le Quang from promoting a pawn.
I'm not going to be resigned to playing PE teachers and police lieutenants the rest of my life.
He resigned after playing 48 Bb7, as Aronian would have eventually promoted his g pawn to a queen.
As a result, process gurus are resigned to playing in the shadows, leaving fame, if not fortune, to others.
A sleepy, melancholic lead guitar picks out a simple, resigned melody, playing a perfect counterpoint to a deflated Malkmus singing softly about failure.
With little or no money left in their salary budget, the Red Bulls (and their fans) are resigned to playing the rest of the season with the hand they have dealt themselves.
He developed the bad habits and became accustomed — or resigned — to playing matches where he "just kind of would go until I got tired, and I got tired really, you know, sort of too quick".
He had left Birmingham and felt that to talk about pain or sadness or guilt would have infected the new life they had created in London – he was resigned to playing the dutiful Muslim boy to his family in Birmingham when, in fact, he was a happily gay man in London.
