Play out
"Although freshly dug labyrinths of tunnels and bunkers are charged sites of insurgency, transgression, surveillance and (attempted) targeting on the world’s borderlands, venerable ones beneath the cores of old cities are also increasingly contested. Here, once again, the invisibility of the complex worlds of tunnels beneath major urban areas plays out in a complex series of political, cultural and geographic struggles."
What does "play out" mean here?
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alibey1917 What does "play out" mean here? It means the writer loves the sound of his own voice and does not give enough thought to the words he is using. Invisibility can't play out.
- alibey1917 What does "play out" mean here?
- It means the writer loves the sound of his own voice and does not give enough thought to the words he is using.
- Invisibility can't play out.
- Ordinarily, a story plays out, or something that can be thought of as a story.
- Think of a stage play passing through development, conflict and resolution.
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alibey1917What does "play out" mean here?
It means the writer loves the sound of his own voice and does not give enough thought to the words he is using. Invisibility can't play out. Ordinarily, a story plays out, or something that can be thought of as a story. Think of a stage play passing through development, conflict and resolution.
0It is apparently sense 1 at https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/american/play-out, " to develop or end in a particular way", but it is hard to understand exactly how invisibility can "play out". Judging from the various excerpts
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