How To Use Word play In A Sentence

  • His oddly callused fingertips maybe horny in both senses of the word played my spine from nape to bottom curve like a musical instrument. Dancing with Werewolves
  • Of course, happily so, with a lot of rib-tickling word play and groaners thrown in for spice in this collaboration between Theater For A New Audience and National Yiddish Theatre. Michael Giltz: Theater: "Shlemiel The First" Klezmer Musical Sings But What's With The Restraint?
  • One tool she calls Word Play, where she uses a list of design terms, such as "drag and drop", "accordian", and "pulldowns" as inspiration for different design approaches. Alberto Mucignat
  • I'm always hiding things in my poems too - internal rhymes and puns and word play and fooling around with cliches.
  • Either way would probably work as the product itself already acts as a suggestion for the results can anyone say, "placebo effect"? so coupling the belief in the product with a few keyword playbacks should be fine. Life of Brian:
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  • The interpretation of that finding is that women tend to respond more to narrative and word play than slap stick.
  • As the first one reaches me, I engage him in sword play before quickly disposing of him, but not before he gets a quick slice in my arm.
  • In honor of the big day, we present a quiz that focuses on the word puns, word play and 'oh, my word!' moments that helped turn the film into the classic it has become. Archive 2010-06-27
  • An extremely talented parodist of the dead socialist realism style, he seems to have brought its spirit back to life with his word play.
  • Thus, accessing the poem's interlingual word play leaves the reader with associations of resistance.
  • A sense of fear and threat of the unknown are conjured up with a dexterous use of language and word play.
  • The Talmud, an unrivaled word player, remembers that the word hin (measure) sounds a lot like the word hen (a word for "yes"). Scott Perlo: Religion, Metaphor And Getting The 'Nazi' Out Of Our Rhetoric
  • Though in a country renowned world-wide for its sparkling native wit and love of word play, you have to be better than good to make it to the top.
  • Sword play, or fencing, was once the sport of aristocrats, inaccessible to the masses, mainly because they could not afford a sword.
  • The topic, as good as a smart diagnosis of language, replete with lots of word play, quick rebuttal in stichomythia, as good as both comic as good as critical diagnosis of love, remind us of alternative early plays of a Bard identical to Love's Labor's Lost as good as Romeo as good as Midsummer Night's Dream. Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
  • But the smarter people enjoyed the twist on the word play and the less smart people just enjoyed the goofing on people and watching people get upset.
  • Author Margie Palatini employs word play, puns, and satire in this animated mystery, a lively spoof of the 1960s television series Dragnet.
  • It consisted of word play in which common terms for meat, drippings, or gravy were substituted with other words.
  • The interpretation of that finding is that women tend to respond more to narrative and word play than slap stick.
  • He plots it with a series of crazy twists and sequences, word play and jugglery, and some seriously funny macabre humour.
  • So, toward the end of the play, when Handke hurled insults at ‘us,’ we were more delighted by the word play (‘You bubbleheads, you atheists, you butchers, you deadbeats’) than hurt or shocked.
  • The object is to see the unexpected associations and beauty of seemingly random word play, along with fostering a greater sense of collaboration and friendship.
  • Barolini's love for language is evident throughout the book as well; much of the prose is concerned with ferreting out word origins, with word play, corruptions, and evolution.
  • The interpretation of that finding is that women tend to respond more to narrative and word play than slap stick.
  • England about the abolition of the Briton's old favourite sports, it was conceded by all but a few, that from the custom of boxing, singlestick and backsword playing, wrestling, &c. arose the good temper which distinguishes that people -- Englishmen being less subject to violent fits of anger than the people of any other nation in the world. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1

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