Sentence examples for as play with from inspiring English sources

Regulars included Andy Warhol, who, Mr. Chow has said, didn't so much eat his food as play with it.

Like Marcel Duchamp, he didn't so much differentiate between high and low subject matter as play with the destabilizing force of presentation: he knew that you could get away with anything if you balanced the weird abrasiveness of the new with the calm of classicism.

Understanding humor as play with words and ideas does not automatically counter the Irrationality Objection, especially since that play is based on violating mental patterns and expectations.

Items on the CGPQ cover 64 children's games, such as "Play with dolls" and "Indian wrestling".

At first it is play, then one boy becomes too violent, accentuates what is allowed as play, with the consequence that he is regarded as problematic and is excluded from the group.

Placing one in multiple rooms will allow both something to chew on as well as play with.

"Some of the players," writes Alfredo Relaño in this morning's AS, "played with the tickets for their Christmas holidays stuffed in their back pockets".

In fact, this can be as successful as playing with a frisbee in a hurricane.

As played with blood-pressure-raising defensiveness by Mr. Troughton, Thomas is a natural-born victim.

Mr. Abraham wasn't interested in anything so overt as playing with fire.

That strikes me as playing with fire rather more dangerously than Carrie's flirtatious dinner-date.