"You want to be respectful," Mr. Tucker says, so the campaign heads in the direction of being "somewhat playful" or, as he puts it, "intelligently provocative".
'But that could be a tactic.' He is somewhat playful, somewhat serious, very compelling: a feline, considered creation in a razor-sharp suit, with a broach of plastic butterflies attached to his left lapel.
Echoing the Renaissance outlook, the mood of the period was one of exuberance in gardening, seen in the somewhat playful arrangements of Tudor times, with mazes, painted statuary, and knot gardens (consisting of beds in which various types of plants were separated by dwarf hedges).
As the technique of jade carving had changed little in the interval, these are hard to distinguish from genuine archaic jades except by a somewhat playful elegance and a tendency to combine shapes and decoration not found together on ancient pieces.
In "Exit," which had its premiere on Tuesday night, Mr. Keigwin's tone is somewhat playful but mostly dark as he explores degrees of addiction in a dance driven by a percussive, melodic score, a collaboration between Christopher Lancaster and Jerome Begin.
"Why don't we do like, a really high art festival and not play up the decrepitude of place, but rather, try elevating it in the most amazing, somewhat playful way?" Ruspoli told me over the phone several days before the festival.
Cildo Meireles' Red Shift is playful, somewhat sinister and was once briefly loaned to the Tate Modern in London.
Willie's conduct as a writer, while always playful, somewhat belied his image of a chaotic and irregular life.
Overall, Hawke's Jesse comes across as a very average, hip but gauche American litterateur – charming, playful, somewhat self-indulgent, but not half as sharp as Céline.
One of his visitors, his xenophobic, ageing sister-in-law, Jen, looks down on foreigners; she's accompanied by Tong, a sweet-natured nephew who turns out to be a monk of a somewhat wayward or playful kind.
She described the boutique's selection — Velvet Baby Doll Dress, Mountain Dew Pants, Snake Skin Boy Band Jacket and other somewhat seductive and playful sundries — as being comprised of pieces that "you can relax and be casual in, but there's still an element that makes it stand out and talks to people, without being high heels and a glittery top".
