The contrast was exquisite, and was played upon by the media.
Yet, I feel, If someone said on Christmas Eve, 'Come; see the oxen kneel...' Just like William Dewy's bull, children's pious feelings can be played upon too.
Similarly, the second item has a translated-from-French feeling ("like a Chutes and Ladders board waiting to be played upon").
Such divisions are played upon by the anti-Taliban alliance, which blamed the movement for massacres of ethnic minorities in Bamiyan and in Mazar-i-Sharif last year.
We are all inherently competitive and this has been played upon superbly well by most of the leading fitness apps, where competing with friends encourages us to stick to a diet, or keep going to the gym beyond January.
In late February, FieldTurf won a bid to install the surface that will be played upon by the Giants and Jets and was christened last week by Major League Soccer's MetroStars.
That willingness to believe was played upon by mediums, many of whom saw spiritualism as just another branch of showbusiness, involving curtains, props, misdirection and in some cases machinery – the very paraphernalia of theatre itself.
William used to say that he'd seen a man look a fool a good many times, but never such a fool as that bull looked when he found his pious feelings had been played upon".
The condemnation of Yehoshuah, Alderman tells us, with an abrupt and unexpected broadening of her focus, is "the Holy of Holies of his life, the tiny chamber at the centre of his heart which is somehow larger than the whole edifice which surrounds it …" Again, a familiar metaphor is being played upon.
