Sentence examples for a playful sort from inspiring English sources

"For me, the last year and a half has seen doors flying open," said Ms. Brown, who is forthright in a playful sort of way when supplying her age -- "the same as the president's" (he is 53).

But for all the seamless blending between their component parts, there's always a sense that there's multiple voices fighting to the forefront of each piece, a playful sort of one-upmanship that drives their ascendant pieces toward the heavens.

He's a writer of a terribly playful sort of provocation, who, like all the greatest artists, is willing to let you go if you will: "But perhaps it is now you, reader, who, buffeted by all these possibilities, tired of these manoeuvres that have you stamping with impatience at the threshold of this work, have one and for all lost your desire to know more about it.

Go for a light Southern or Australian accent if you're looking for a fun, playful sort of voice.

Jokes are a playful form of reasoning.

The piece can be seen as a playful — and sort of creepy — mating of two artists' careers, their divergent aesthetics overlapping in themes of infantilization and transgressive aspirations that never quite manage to produce transgressive results.

Rather it is deft and mischievous, a novel of ideas that folds back on itself like the most playful sort of arabesque.

But Tasset is a playful prankster of sorts, favoring unexpected contexts that recall Surrealists like Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte, while his focus on prosaic objects and images invoke Dada ringmaster Marcel Duchamp.

Klopp responded with a playful shoulder charge, the sort of thing you normally see on the sidelines of a rugby pitch.

In some ways it's sort of like a playful innocence.

The gap in the social sharing market this young team reckons it's spotted is a sort of 'anti-Instagram' — offering a playful contrast to the photo sharing platform's polished (and at times preening) performances.