Sentence examples for playful phrase from inspiring English sources

It's not exactly a playful phrase.

You do not need to know "Who's your daddy," J. C. Penney declares in its Christmas 2011 advertising campaign, as long as you know "Who's your Santa!" That playful phrase — punctuated with an exclamation point — will be the centerpiece of the ad blitz that Penney is to introduce for the holiday shopping season.

Jan Vogler has a theory: Tchaikovsky wrote his Variations on a Rococo Theme for cello and orchestra in direct response to St Petersburg's magnificent 18th-century architecture, its gilded glories reflected in the playful phrasing and pretty ornaments of the soloist's line.

Glenn Gamboa of Newsweek called it "enjoyable fluff", with a "robo-dance" sound highlighting "Jackson's playful phrasing and ability to mine the electro-groove".

(In later seasons, Mr. Van Dyke would sidestep the ottoman to the same playful musical phrase).

That is not how a playful Eckersley phrased it.

Mr. Plant's voice was strong and supple, constantly transforming itself: playful short phrases and curving long ones, quietly spooked intimations and clarion shouts.

Unobtrusively placed in the current of a discussion on a particular issue, the anecdotal allusions serve to clarify an idea, to provide a concrete example, or to insert a playful turn of phrase into otherwise ponderous prose.

The Sonata in G (K. 547) was warm, playful and gracefully phrased.

Just once in a while his smile fades, the fingers drum on the table, questions are answered before fully phrased, the playful irony becomes razor-sharp.In this section The fire is being rekindled Daffodilly?

You don't need witchcraft to conjure up the reasons the more monstrous images are disappearing from most Halloween marketing, replaced by smiling ghosts and pumpkins and phrases like "Playful fun" and "All treats!