Sentence examples for mere wordplay from inspiring English sources
Nothing that is mere wordplay is ever witty, so the man who makes puns must do all his own laughing.
This will seem like mere wordplay to committed abortion opponents, but then most Americans are somewhere in the middle of this fight, neither fully approving of abortion nor in favor of preventing women from having one, if they so choose.
If we also worry that he wields mere slingshots against giants, we nonetheless see that satire's weapons -- wordplay, irony, caricature -- can have surprisingly serious consequences.
These people aren't monsters, they're just incredibly limited, and their occasional altruistic moments and acts of solidarity make them more than mere caricatures (though, as caricatures, they're still pretty damn amusing. The wordplay that revels in Tobias' closeted status is still as funny as it was when the show premiered).
IN Jean-Pierre Bekolo's short film "La Grammaire de Ma Grand-mere," the Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambety deploys a bit of French wordplay to explain the productive tension at the heart of his work.
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