Here was Mr. Sawyer, my old chamber-fellow, a counsel against my Lord; and I am glad to see him in so good play.
It is certain, the Trunk-maker has saved many a good Play, and brought many a graceful Actor into Reputation, who would not otherwise have been taken notice of.
What a case am I in then, that am neither a good epilogue, nor cannot insinuate with you in the behalf of a good play!
Primo, secundo, tertio, is a good play; and the old saying is 'The third pays for all.
If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.
But let it be assumed that our theater-goer is in his seat, ready to do his part in the patronage of a good play.
And one of the sure tests of a good play may be found here; if it is not a workable drama, either it will not readily reduce to a proposition or else cannot be stated propositionally at all.
But, to avoid the question, the better plan would be not to catch the ball, and disdain to win a match except by good play.
A GOOD PLAY We built a ship upon the stairs All made of the back-bedroom chairs, And filled it full of sofa pillows To go a-sailing on the billows.
The book of an opera must be a good play; and more than once have we seen a libretto deprived of its music and written out again in prose for production in non-musical theaters.
The book of an opera must be a good play, and therefore not a few successful operas have been composed on plots which had already won approval as plays on the stage.
It is not quite true that the skeleton of a good play is always a pantomime, since there are plays the plot of which cannot be conveyed to the audience except by actual speech.
Four-fifths of them don't know a good play from a bad one.
Adversely, if it should happen to be a good play, they don't know what it's all about and will have nothing to do with it.
They tell me there is a great deal of money to be made out of a good play.
The confusion, however, caused by the balls getting in each other's way would quite spoil all chance of good play.
Stopping a shooter is always a sign of good play, and often at Lord's produces more applause than a hit which scores two or three runs.
It is undeniable, too, that particular characteristics of ours may be so strong that other characteristics will not prevent them from taking us into sufficient dramatic complications to make a good play.
Palmer, after a long life-time of experience, said to me: "There does not live a man who can tell a good playfrom a bad one by reading it.
But a good playhelps us to enjoy ourselves by making us aware of ourselves; it forces us to think and feel.
Hamlet, that masterpiece of meditative poetry, would still be a good play if it were shown in moving pictures.
Cyrano de Bergerac was a good play, first of all, and a good poem also; and even a public that fears to seem Philistine knew the difference instinctively.
To an author in London: What you say is quite true; a good play is a good play; but the difficulty I find is to ascertain through the public and the box-office what they think is a good play.
The theater-going public in the cities may not always get a good play from me, but they trust me, and I shall try and retain that trust.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good play" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
