The language, though, seemed playfully self-conscious.
Carmen won Queen of the Universe in 2010 after competing three of four times, though she playfully made sure I knew that each of those times she hadn't walked away with the crown she had "always been in the top five".
Torre playfully insisted, though, that it be an Italian restaurant.
Once he did, though, the sun sparkled playfully off of the Bob Marley chain hanging over his Patrick Ewing Knicks jersey, and he took a couple tokes from an almost finished blunt and came to sit next to me on the stoop of his Harlem brownstown.
"I might play," he said playfully, though a lingering groin-muscle injury made that highly unlikely.
Somehow they avoid running into Benedict Cumberbatch, despite his having featured in 78% of all films made in the last year: a great big-screen showcase still eludes him, though he's a playfully frosty, film-saving presence as Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate (Entertainment One, 15), Bill Condon's otherwise drab, box-ticking trudge of a WikiLeaks thriller.
Though the images feel playfully sexy rather than provocative, however, photographer Angus Malcolm believes the project is still not taken as seriously as he'd like it to be. .
During the cross-examination, which is to continue Thursday in State Supreme Court in Queens, Mr. Leventhal did not immediately challenge Dr. Borukhova's central assertion: that she heard and saw nothing when her husband was shot in a playground in Forest Hills on Oct. 28, 2007, even though she said they were playfully swinging their daughter between them at the time.
Though he presents the material playfully, Staples has more on his mind than hot fun.
Everest, In The Heart of the Sea and The Night Before all featured the pregnant wife back home (even though the character in the last playfully bucked stereotypes by gifting her husband recreational drugs).
