Sentence examples for successfully plays from inspiring English sources

The endings of Antrim's novels almost invariably disappoint, if only because he so successfully plays can-you-top-this that, by the close, it's as if he's not sure where else he can turn.

Freed from her usual role as an updated Lana Turner, Johansson successfully plays a direct, tough-talking keeper, who carries around with her a heavy set of keys — a woman, her hair pulled back, who feels most comfortable in a plaid shirt and jeans.

Second, the Ryan tactic of obscuring the cuts successfully plays to a fundamental ambivalence that amounts to an internal contradiction in public opinion: strong support for spending cuts in the abstract, but opposition to many specific cuts in programs that have popular support.

When someone successfully plays romantic games at the beginning of a relationship, observing peculiar social customs and demonstrating due consideration for all the niceties and doing it effortlessly and imperceptibly, he has demonstrated the skills he needs to successfully maintain a long-term relationship.

(Today, it is the Chamber of Commerce's National Litigation Center that successfully plays the "lose and sue" game).

Jones successfully plays the role of a straight and narrow military man, who manages to repress whatever urges he might have for Bobby.

Effectively, this game would allow even those with disabilities to successfully play video games.

The team successfully played music at 350 degrees Celsius — about 660 Fahrenheit.

He scored another point on a takedown and successfully played defense the rest of the way.

But the list of comedians who have successfully played villains on screen is far shorter.

In this battle, he has successfully played by the international rule book.