You want me to treat you for worry?" This is another dazzling chess play of words.
My job is to pitch a play so that the resonances intended by the play of words in one tongue seem still to be sparking in an entirely different time and culture.
There are silences, bursts of music, a terrific play of words and images, and switches in tempo that take us from an analysis of church architecture to a reconstruction of the fire itself by the Manchester authorities.
The same is true in Jessica Rankin's "Constant Return," with its chartlike play of words -- read, overheard, spoken, obsessively thought about -- hand-embroidered in overlapping layers on sheets of opaque fabric.
In his 1973 book on Joyce, "Joysprick," Burgess made a provocative distinction between what he calls the "A" novelist and the "B" novelist: the A novelist is interested in plot, character and psychological insight, whereas the B novelist is interested, above all, in the play of words.
Then, unable to easily translate the play of words among the women and the men gathered below, who stood in separate groups, trading lines back and forth, in a resonant call and response, she said: "What they are trying to say is everything that they could not say for forty-two years.
Here's a message for Trump: Latinos can see through your cynical ploys – no play of words can hide the fact that you've built your entire campaign on a dangerous agenda that seeks to demonize immigrants, deport 16 million people, build a giant concrete wall and send a deportation force into our communities".
John's father, my grandfather, would make a play of words from our last name, Diederich.
And the second one is a play of words on a phrase used to describe children who are hooked up to tracheostomy tubes and portable oxygen.
A mother is something absolutely new With a play of words, a woman's role as a mother is both elevated and venerated to the exclusion of other roles that she performs in society.
