Sentence examples for playful term from inspiring English sources

Obama campaign spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter, appearing with Madden on "Face the Nation," said, "Romnesia is a playful term to describe what Mitt Romney's actually doing" by moving toward the center as the election gets closer.

It is also a playful term since beau is in it (French for beautiful).

"Mad Men" and Bruce Norris's time-traveling play "Clybourne Park" spring to mind, but Mr. Harrison's comic drama entertains on its own darkly playful terms.

Beneath seemingly silly lyrics about "trollfolk," you can hear an expression of ethnic pride; plenty of other European metal bands (some of them great) express something similar in much less playful terms.

And, although there is plenty written about trolling and online bullying, 4Chan is often described in playful terms in (a perhaps fearful) popular media as "anarchic and influential" or "iconoclastic".

In "Oprichnik," the playful antique terms and gestures have sometimes confounded the not-to-be-envied translator.

The travelling Australian used to work in pubs and service industries where many customers heard, fell in love with and adopted playful Aussie slang terms.

And with playful, techie-familiar terms on its Web site from "borked" to "whacked"–the company's marketing approach seems oddly appropriate.

(The name is a colloquial Japanese term for playful sex).

If that setup is a playful reference to the term "jukebox musical," no show has a greater right to use it.

Howe's unique synthesis of skill and strength, of finesse and ferocity, led to the playful conception of the term "Gordie Howe hat trick" -- something accomplished only when a skater tallies a goal, an assist and a fight in a single game, per the New York Daily News.  .