Even David Lodge, who started introducing postmodern playfulness into his novels back in the 1960s with The British Museum Is Falling Down, can be found inserting "consciousness" monologues into the appropriately titled Thinks..
The question of why Kate doesn't simply forward his threatening texts and emails to the police is explained in terms of a power game the pair played when they were together, while a subplot about a local woman who has gone missing from her boat nods winkingly to Rebecca, introducing a playfulness that bubbles away nicely without compromising the surface tension.
Insofar as postmodernism introduces aesthetic playfulness and subversion into science and politics, he resists it in the name of a modernity moving toward completion rather than self-transformation.
Mr. Clough, who earned plaudits for a puzzle-filled apartment on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, has incorporated mysteries into Mr. Louboutin's stores, he said, as a way to introduce a sense of playfulness into the design — "caring about details," he said, in the way that Mr. Louboutin cares about his shoes.
The very first scene of "Killing Eve" introduces Villanelle's defining combination of playfulness and cruelty: In an ice cream shop in Vienna, she becomes annoyed that the little girl across the room will smile at the man behind the counter, but not at her (at first).
Her fame has received an assist from her voluptuous good looks, verbal playfulness and flirtatious style, which she introduced in "Nigella Bites," her first television series, all but seducing the camera, licking batter from her finger and oozing double-entendre descriptions of her cooking techniques — "food porn," the critics called it, and not necessarily negatively.
"Our collection of art indulges the senses and emotions with color, playfulness and beauty," she said before introducing herself as Animazing's owner, Heidi Leigh.
Her mixtape released this past summer Do You Know Who I Am?, has introduced the scene to a rising young artist whose infectious rhymes combine playfulness and tough talk.
Introducing more progressive and psychedelic elements, humanizing the music with a bluesy undercurrent, the Seattle quartet displays more playfulness than on last year's "Louder Than Love". A looseness in the joints keeps the monster riffs from being self-important, and the spontaneity lets you sense four guys pushing and playing off each other instead of laboring for a formal effect.
Her breakout album, "She's So Unusual" (celebrating its 30th anniversary this year), introduced a nation of women to a new kind of female role model, one that celebrated difference and encouraged playfulness in self-expression.
