Give-and-take

Usage examples of interplay.

This interplay of hues begins with the appearance of a tenuous brushstroke of lavender on the horizon.

I was now merely a spectator, and from my couch in the big room I could lie and watch the human interplay with that detached, impassive, impersonal feeling which French writers tell us is so valuable to the litterateur, and American writers to the faro-dealer.

But the younger Wiener, though still years shy of his fellow postdoctoral students, enjoyed the spirited discussions, held his own in them, and the interplay helped greatly to improve his social skills.

The movie always keeps our interest because of the interplay between Powell and prot, as the Doctor alternates between belief in alien visitation, and his professional hunch that Prot is simply a human repressing a past trauma.

The most effective strategy for rechanneling that energy consists of six elements that interplay with one another.

Nature, like the interplay of signs and resemblances, is closed in upon itself in conformity with the duplicated form of the cosmos.

You have missionaries, native schoolmasters, employers of coolies, traders, simple downright men, who scarcely suspect the existence of any sources of error in their verdicts, who are incapable of understanding the difference between what is innate and what is acquired, much less of distinguishing them in their interplay.

The lack of ordinary consensus for the component elements was brought forth dramatically by an interplay of positive and negative emphasis placed on the views of onlookers who observed my behaviour during the course of that first state of nonordinary reality.

Nature outside man had taught him that life on all levels takes it course in a perpetual interplay of opposites, manifested externally in an interplay of diastole and systole comparable to the process of breathing.

The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life, and all our Utopias no more than schemes for bettering that interplay.

What we call 'seeing' is far more the result of an interplay between the retina carrying the nerves, and the choroid carrying the blood-vessels.

CONADOTROPHINS As with the corticoids and with thyroxine, there is an interplay between the various sex hormones and the pituitary.

The epigenetic interplay of DNA and culture was now changing people so fast that even a century was enough to make a measurable difference.

The interplay between the estrogens (or androgens) and the various pituitary gonadotrophins is exceedingly complex.

The foyer was spacious and striking, with light and free-flowing modern designs interplaying in a harmony of colors and motion.