be in full play

But the traditional characteristics of capitalism are in full play.

"We would call this a demographic that is in full play," Conway said.

Nevertheless, all the usual huge-snowstorm consequences are in full play.

It’s only August, and the race card is in full play in this election cycle.

The otherworldly technical prowess was in full play, but so were the musical impulses.

The police principle of "the least work consists of arresting the handiest person" would be in full play.

The look was also less sumptuously theatrical, but the typical Dairakudakan wit was in full play.

Now the Bolo's mortars were in full play and Sean was mesmerized by the devastation he witnessed on the viewscreen.

David Paterson, a state senator from Harlem, said the police officers' expectations in the Diallo incident were in full play even before they left their car.

It is a dark piece, though Ms. Bausch's sly humor and audacious visual imagination are in full play in this nearly three-hour modern-dance work.

On weekends from late spring to early autumn, the administration of the museum sponsors the Grandes Eaux - spectacles during which all the fountains in the gardens are in full play.

His theatrical imagination was in full play here, evident both in his reworking of traditional narratives and in stunning scenic and glittering costume effects that also suggest an unlimited production budget.

Its owner's face was averted, but as he conversed with animation, the hand was in full play, now emphasizing an opinion, now lifting a glass, or more frequently pulling at a blond beard which adorned the face of the unknown.

At the entrance you can also turn left, to the Pace Master Prints booth, and come face to face with a two-sided Goya ink drawing in which that artist's usual mixture of empathy and caricature is in full play.

Wery proud o' that machine he was, as it was nat'ral he should be, and he'd stand down in the celler a-lookin' at it wen it was in full play, till he got quite melancholy with joy.

Without some way of redressing the imbalance between big donors and small, "the great danger of huge contributions buying influence over government decisions at the expense of ordinary Americans is going to be in full play," says Wertheimer, whose organization endorses the Empowering Citizens Act.

There was a huge engine in the wall which was in full play, with wheels and cylinders resembling our own steam-engines, except that it was richly ornamented with precious stones and metals, and appeared to emanate a pale phosphorescent atmosphere of shifting light.