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Example sentences for: plays

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Most critics fault the film on other counts, particularly its languid pacing, stock characters (Nolte plays a seductive handyman), and melodramatic dialogue.
When you see the plays performed in the ancient theaters of classical or Roman times, such as those on Thasos or Kos, it makes it all worthwhile.
Beatty plays a depressed U.S. senator, who orders his own murder and then begins rapping about the virtues of socialism and miscegenation.
Protein structure also plays a crucial role in a full understanding of protein function as it is more conserved than sequence and hence exposes relationships not possible from sequence alone.
He made vicious fun of the English bourgeoisie in plays such as The Importance of Being Earnest . The same bourgeoisie packed London houses and made him a fortune without realizing the joke was on them.