Sentence examples for play of language from inspiring English sources

The play of language guided @_thetwors's phophobia, the fear of delicious Vietnamese noodles.

For most of the twentieth century, Mallarmé scholars focussed on the texture of his texts, on the free play of language.

More interested in theory and the subversive play of language than in storytelling, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butortandrs atheirted much medimitatorsiticattractedion; but their provocative and demuching output stimediaed more publicity thandsales.

Thinking about Surrealism — particularly with respect to the play of language and image, and the gift of odd juxtapositions — puts Marclay's work in a slightly different light for me.

Part of Ms. Rowling's tremendous achievement is to have addressed the substantial questions and grave themes of those older movies while ingeniously recasting them into characters, action and play of language accessible to most 8-year-olds.

"Sifting facts for meaning in fine-tuned words, this is biography at its best," applauded the New Statesman's Lyndall Gordon, who found the author an admirable "guide who won't rush to judgment" with a "flair for play of language".

The engraving of Shakespeare's face, points out Jonson, cannot capture his "wit"; it's just an inert picture that does no justice to what made Shakespeare unique, which was the lively play of his language, in speech and on the page.

Quoting Müller ("The function of art is to make reality impossible"), she praises the play's "lust of language, the brilliance of its scathing metamorphoses" and "the elegant and blasphemous humor that dismantles clichés".

(We play that kind of language on broadcast TV? I never noticed).

Various characters and symbols – some figurative, some actual – make a recurrent entrance into the play of Savannah Band language, as the mad covers to all their albums testify.

James also recalled how St. Aubyn sometimes reacted, at dinner parties, to a stranger's careless remark: "A not terribly bright girl might say, 'Ooh, that's fun,' and he would play with her use of language in a way that humiliated her".