Crossword clues for byplay
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Byplay \By"play\, n. Action carried on aside, and commonly in dumb show, while the main action proceeds.
Wiktionary
n. (context theatre English) Any action, carried out onstage during a performance, apart from the main action.
WordNet
n. incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect; "his business with the cane was hilarious" [syn: business, stage business]
Usage examples of "byplay".
Lee smiled, both at the byplay he watched and at the way of life a Confederate victory had preserved.
Happily replete, he leaned back on his bench and joined in the byplay between Pleasants and the farm hands.
Senator was following this byplay with an interest Margaret found disquieting, and she felt her cheeks redden.
She listened with only half an ear to the byplay between Kit and John Travis as she gazed out the window, intent on the mountain scenery, her deep leather cabin chair swiveled in a conversational mode toward the sofa.
Old Tom warned, the remark igniting a good-natured byplay between the two that Sondra ignored as she resumed her visual search of guests, seeking J.
Harry saw the gesture and reflected cynically on the foolishness of a profession in which sub-rosa byplay was an accepted, even rehearsed, part of the practice.
The byplay in medicine might be more subtle than in law, but it was no less nasty.
Gardener had been watching this byplay with steady, earth-rooted calm, her hands still busy sorting fresh-picked squash into that which would be sent to the castle kitchens and that which would go to the canning sheds.
Intent upon the byplay between herdsman and fisher, she took no notice of it, and thus allowed it to remain in place.
Turning back to the guide, who was by now feeling sorely left out of the verbal byplay, he offered his thanks for the information.
She nervously watched the byplay among her captors, gripping her opposite shoulders with her well-formed hands.
Around the hall, members of the High Council explored byplays behind faqades of polite conversation, and all the while they played, once more, the Great Game.
Any struggle in the enemy camp was good to know about, but unfortunately, he couldn't afford to spend the time insinuating himself where he could observe the byplays of power.
Aware of the byplay, but obliged by code of conduct to ignore it, the other two advisers inclined their heads in acceptance of the mistress's wishes.
Without the political byplay of the High Council, deprived of the constant give-and-take between factions as a leavening agent, we are left with every house cast adrift, dependent upon the goodwill and promises of others to survive.