Sentence examples for playful idea from inspiring English sources

After meeting the 20-year-old Brahms in 1853, Schumann proposed a playful idea: He, the composer Albert Dietrich and Brahms would write movements for a violin sonata, with a linking F-A-E melodic motif drawn from the motto "Frei aber einsam" ("Free but lonely").

When one of his pigeons lost its orientation in fog and mysteriously arrived, well-fed, four weeks late, Neubronner was inspired with the playful idea of equipping his pigeons with automatic cameras to trace their paths.

That is the sort of work it is: teeming with playful ideas, audacious pastiche, triple takes.

He gave shelf space to young makers with playful ideas, such as Jim O'Connor's winged boots, as worn by Elton John.

The most famous moments in Buddy's reminiscences ("please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: " and "were most of your stars out?" among many others) are insistently hopeful and playful ideas in a bereft mind.

A few designers have come up with playful ideas to make their city more comfortable.

For more free spirited and playful gardening ideas and antics see getbadlybehaved.com or @badlybehavedone.

These early works by Koons take the playful, nuanced ideas of Marcel Duchamp and turn them into a formula for the ultimate artistic shortcut.

The juxtaposition of the middle-aged Ice Cube as a foulmouthed cop with the young Ice Cube as a foulmouthed cop hater typifies the movie's playful, grab-bag idea of itself.

"We think we have also educated the company that some playful, consumer-oriented ideas" can end up "helping this corporation".

The novel, published in 1928, is Woolf at her most playful, toying with ideas of biography, identity and gender.