Sentence examples for especially playful from inspiring English sources

And he becomes especially playful by dessert, with chestnut ice cream in yellow and brown piped in a swirl into a cone and plated with candied chestnuts and an apricot and lavender sauce.

In addition to sharing several locations with the later feature, "Villa Santo Sospir" -- looking appropriately home-movieish in grainy 16mm -- finds Cocteau in an especially playful mood, going so far as to engagingly state, "this film is not for judges," noting that it was simply made as a friendly greeting to his friends and colleagues.

Cubs are especially playful as well.

But Giselle's mime is retained, and Ms. Ananiashvili was especially vibrant, playful and childlike in Act I, while vigorous as a Wili, or ghost, in Act II.

Critics of Fallon have pointed to his apolitical bent as a key reason for his recent struggles, especially his playful interview last September with Donald Trump.

But sprawling isn't necessarily a bad thing, especially when strange, playful imaginations are involved, as they will be in the two remaining programs this weekend.

Puppies are especially curious and playful.

And, for goodness sake, be playful, especially when you're around her. Tease her lovingly, or play a small prank on a friend.

There's a playful spark — especially in Bridges's roistering performance — that occasionally ignites the movie's exquisite surface.

Her book can be maddeningly long-winded, especially in Jennie's playful efforts to envision herself as "our Jennie," to inhabit an alter ego she calls the Ugly Chick and to write her story as a self-conscious fairy tale.

This jazz singer, who is a much bigger star in Paris than she is here, is one of the most vital inheritors of the tradition of Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan (especially Vaughan in a playful mode).