"play" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- That is one way to distill her experience and adventure, a liquor-trade tale in which she played Pygmalion to a peasant's swill.
- Ivan played Pygmalion to Arnold's Galatea in a series of high-concept comedies: Twins, Kindergarden Cop, and Junior .
- Who can forget Peter Bogdanovich dumping his talented wife, Polly Platt, to put on an ascot and play Pygmalion with Cybill Shepherd?
- He edited Gabriel Pascal's film productions of two George Bernard Shaw plays, Pygmalion (1938) and Major Barbara (1941).
- Nowadays, when the stars' lives supersede their work, the image-making machinery is more complex, with the press itself often competing with the press agents to play Pygmalion to the stars' Galatea.
- I decided that Gwen's attempt to play Pygmalion to this unlikely Galatea was succeeding but that Bill would have to learn Loonie manners, or he might lose some teeth.
- Ernst patiently plays Pygmalion to the homely, overweight Martha, who finds it difficult to stop acting like his servant.
- Jerome Robbins and Peter Martins, the current artistic directors, obviously do not feel they have to play Pygmalion to any specific Galatea.
- She wasn't playing Pygmalion to his Galatea.
- The, story was simple and unassailable, and put the polish on my only attempt at playing Pygmalion.
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