Sentence examples for oddly playful from inspiring English sources

In court, she could be oddly playful.

It's a puzzle that succeeds: hard to work out but absorbing and, despite the result, oddly playful.

"Aashayein" has sad moments — patients die — but the prevailing mood is less maudlin than oddly playful, with a dash of mysticism.

"On the Road" certainly takes some wrong turns: with some frequency, it becomes jokey instead of oddly playful, and its never-ending ending — who could blame the audience for clapping prematurely?

But the result was an ongoing, oddly playful public dustup.

Mr. Sante begins intriguingly, oddly, in playful fashion, by telling nine variations on the story of his origins: "I was born on May 25 , 1954 in Verviers, Belgium, the only child of...". is the first line of all of them, the first seeming to be closest to the historical truth.

A playful breed with an oddly expressive, almost human face, this breed spurs baby fever in the most callous of hearts.

These are playful, formal lumps, finally abstract and improvisatory, oddly endearing and brought to a wicked state of refinement that is pure eye candy for sculptural sophisticates.

In the same way post-modernist architecture, with its pastiches of historic features, seems merely playful in a kind of soulless way, so too do most of our new cars seem oddly flat and without character.

And with playful, techie-familiar terms on its Web site from "borked" to "whacked"–the company's marketing approach seems oddly appropriate.

A theme is emerging at the Ustinov, where the playful mind games of Florian Zeller's hits The Father and The Mother are also evident in this odd and oddly compelling play by the French-Canadian writer Catherine-Anne Toupin. Catherine-Anne Toupin