byplay
Example Sentences
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What endures is the rasping byplay, the soaring exasperation, the tango of opposing temperaments finding fleeting common ground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024
But their byplay remains rather airless, except for Okonedo, Mackey and Thomas Bateman as Poirot’s hapless, vaguely Wodehousian pal.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2022
“Yes, she is quite wonderful, isn’t she? My favourite bit of byplay was when Sky’s Ewen Murray asked her if she liked Tommy Fleetwood’s all-the-fashion golf shirt. ‘
From The Guardian ● Jul. 19, 2019
Their comic byplay — Pumbaa, ever overeager, and Timon, vainglorious and slyly mocking of his pal — are delightful scene-stealers, and their singing of “Hakuna Matata” is a giddy high point.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2019
Hijo mio," he said gently, "let us stop this little byplay.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 by Bates, Harry
