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Here, though, Cook was far more sprightly, cracking the odd joke, playfully chiding one reporter and generally giving the impression of a cricketer in a far more settled state.
In this sharp triple bill, BRB dance the playfully subversive Stravinsky Violin Concerto, the fierce, combative Agon (pictured) and the jazzy profusion of Symphony In Three Movements.
In 2010 the gallery completed the series Space Is A Word, a three-part examination of art as a mental space – rather than physical – that featured large canvases from Gino Saccone, Jean Bernard Koeman's architectural models and Frederik van Simaey's playfully existential installations, including a striking sculpture of folding beds, bikes and ladders.
Of course she has! "That's so duh," said the superstar playfully.
In 1999, another user, Peter Merholz, playfully broke the word into "we blog", and somehow the new term blog stuck as both a verb and a noun.
Despite describing the experience as a "complete contrast in every way to working for Tate", Ms Barlow has produced a set of ebullient sculptures for rural Somerset that are similar to "Dock", but gentler, playfully creeping around beams, squeezing through doorways and stretching up to the rafters.
Although you are certainly right when you playfully suggest that more research is needed, the missing variable is obvious enough: the political environment in which the research subjects find themselves at the time the research is conducted.
It feels natural to those of us who grew up with it, but British banter the playfully barbed conversational style adopted by groups of friends in bars, offices and even classrooms up and down the country can baffle and perturb foreigners.
The catalyst was his encounter with PLATO, a cluster of a thousand dumb terminals that were connected to a mainframe and that Mr Ozzie and his friends playfully used to communicate, by exchanging what would today be called e-mails and instant messages.
It was slick and fast-paced, serious and playfully critical.
It has a distinctly continental feel about it in that it is not a conventional novel at all but a learned essay, which playfully mixes fact and fiction to explore some of the reasons why so many writers fail to write.Mr Vila-Matas takes his title from Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby the Scrivener".
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The adverb "playfully " modifies verbs, adverbs or adjectives to describe an action performed in a light-hearted, sportive, or teasing manner. Ludwig AI suggests its usage to add a nuance of amusement to the action being described.
Expression frequency: Very common
