Sentence examples for playful sort of from inspiring English sources

"For me, the last year and a half has seen doors flying open," said Ms. Brown, who is forthright in a playful sort of way when supplying her age -- "the same as the president's" (he is 53).

He's a writer of a terribly playful sort of provocation, who, like all the greatest artists, is willing to let you go if you will: "But perhaps it is now you, reader, who, buffeted by all these possibilities, tired of these manoeuvres that have you stamping with impatience at the threshold of this work, have one and for all lost your desire to know more about it.

Rather it is deft and mischievous, a novel of ideas that folds back on itself like the most playful sort of arabesque.

But for all the seamless blending between their component parts, there's always a sense that there's multiple voices fighting to the forefront of each piece, a playful sort of one-upmanship that drives their ascendant pieces toward the heavens.

Go for a light Southern or Australian accent if you're looking for a fun, playful sort of voice.

The piece can be seen as a playful — and sort of creepy — mating of two artists' careers, their divergent aesthetics overlapping in themes of infantilization and transgressive aspirations that never quite manage to produce transgressive results.

Jokes are a playful form of reasoning.

Nevertheless, the mixed bag of Michele's Gucci - sort of playful, this time sort of sexy, sort of always all over the place - will find a place in many women's wardrobes.

But with a sort of playful resignation: it's the St Patrick's Day parade again, is it?

Later in the day I do see Paul, off camera, getting Sue into a sort of playful headlock.

Many of Mr. Azrouël's pieces are collages, their torn parts apparent in a way that is sort of playful and vaguely sinister at the same time.