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

“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

More broadly, he “did not like politicians and felt uncomfortable with the normal byplay of political compromise” — and he was a downer for a country whose spirits needed lifting.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2018

Other artists would have given more incidental byplay, and drawn off our attention from the main issue.

From The Venetian School of Painting by Phillipps, Evelyn March