problem play
Example Sentences
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“We should be in unison about the primary, and we should let this other problem play itself out.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 30, 2023
We have seen this problem play out in the geopolitical context within the past few weeks.
From Salon • Mar. 27, 2022
Ultimately, “All’s Well” might have landed with more heft if it had abandoned the middle ground of the problem play and worn more boldly the smirking mask of comedy.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2021
Instead, they let the problem play out to see what they could learn about it before fixing it.
From The Verge • Apr. 6, 2020
He had been writing ten years when he essayed his first serious presentation of what we might to-day call a problem play on an English subject in “A Blot in the ’Scutcheon.”
From Browning and His Century by Clarke, Helen Archibald
