Sentence examples for playful battle from inspiring English sources

Ms. Blackwell and Ms. Cabell waged playful battle with high notes in "This Little Light of Mine," and Mr. Maynor dazzled with soft, legato beauty in "There Is a Balm in Gilead".

It had been so long since I watched them this closely in playful battle that I'd lost my ability to appreciate the truly subtle thrusts and parries between brother and sister, and how purely they enjoyed it.

The fourth of Rohmer's six "moral tales" offers a wry and playful battle of the sexes, as the nymphet of the title makes a point of bedding a different man each night – and dances constantly away from the two male friends who try to tame her.

His playful battles with Muhammad Ali from the 1970s have aged well, but Parkinson is still working the angles in Australia, where his Network Ten show brings in the big names.

The reason the Corral dish room becomes so fetid and miasmal, with standing food-sogged water so moat-deep that I and an enormous El Salvadorian dentist would slip and slide while staging playful battles in it, is because its patrons lose all sense of proportion once they pass through the corral and thence to the trough.

But the competitive duet, while some elements of it (lifts, falls, dragging along the floor) could be construed as playful, is a battle.

The ritual represents, in a playful form, the battle of Ra's Eye with its greatest foe.

She was more convincing, and more fun, when she offered a playful take on the battle of the sexes.

You may think that scheduling time to be fun and carefree defeats the purpose of it, but in reality, making the time to be playful is half the battle.

Todd McCarthy, writing for The Hollywood Reporter, said the film was "a narratively ambitious sci-fi actioner" that "takes a relatively playful attitude toward the familiar battle tropes".

Since then he's been part of Battles, an imaginative rock band, playful and rigorous.