Sentence examples for intellectually playful from inspiring English sources

In that language, he is precise, ironic, almost intellectually playful and certainly provocative.

The result is a novelistic confection that's as severely and earnestly emotional as it is intellectually playful and stylistically original.

"He is the most colorful, the most intellectually playful, the most provocative member of the court, and he is indubitably its greatest writer," Kagan said, introducing Scalia.

He could also be intellectually playful, as he was at a 1966 conference with poets and playwrights on the concept of absurdity.

Her fourth album was no different: laden with weighty themes (death, love, life all that jazz), idiosyncratically structured and intellectually playful.

A kind of quantum Alice in Wonderland – intellectually playful, inventive, mind-bending, and involves a scene where the heroine gains insights into the universe via a psychotropic tea party.

Their extraordinary, intellectually stimulating, playful, and romantic union lasted thirty-eight years.

Her work is playful, often surreal, intellectually rigorous, and brief.

That is, it was both intellectually engaging and warmly approachable, marked by a kind of playful, inclusive modernism that drew on everything from Renaissance music to the driving pulse of rock.

At its best the sensuously playful life of the painting wins out over the intellectually overdetermined subject (Johnson).

In the words of the novelist Ian McEwan, edge.org is "open-minded, free-ranging, intellectually playful… an unadorned pleasure in curiosity, a collective expression of wonder at the living and inanimate world… an ongoing and thrilling colloquium".