Sentence examples for touch of playful from inspiring English sources

Last fall, Rizzoli reprinted a lavish monograph devoted to the staggeringly prolific Italian designer, critic and bon vivant who, before his death at 87 in 1979, founded Domus magazine, created sets for La Scala, brought a touch of playful luxury to the interiors of the Andrea Doria and planted works in every medium in just about every corner of the world.

(I also added a humorous touch and sense of playful mischievousness to Macbeth, which many actors don't bother with).

Though it generally moves with painful deliberateness, "Kikujiro" musters occasional touches of shambling, playful charm.

In time, though, a soft spot develops and the two set off on a search for Masao's mother in a film that moves with painful deliberateness but "musters occasional touches of shambling, playful charm" (A.O. Scott).

One of the best ways to stimulate laughter--and it's probably the most ancient way--is by tickling, forms of mutual play that include this kind of playful touch.

That suspicion of Modernism's dogmatic streak is underscored by a number of playful touches.

Designed by Philippe Starck, the décor is full of playful touches, such as graffiti, table football, and rubber rings above the bar.

But Watt, drawing on and expanding skills she developed as an acclaimed short film-maker, brought a feel all of her own, deploying a range of playful touches to offset a potentially grim story where the prospect of death is never far away.

Ms. Dennings, pretty with a playful touch of Goth style, points out that she has never followed the early advice casting agents gave her: tighten up your teeth, dye your hair, lose weight, get a tan.

Kaluk, a troupe of branding consultants-cum-street performers, mostly from Red Hook and all under the age of twenty-five, offers, according to the group's Web site, "a playful touch of theatricality to get your brand noticed in a crowd".

Aaron Becker's Caldecott-winner Journey is another silent beauty, in which a bored, lonely little girl draws a doorway on her bedroom wall and emerges into a lantern-lit forest; then she draws a boat and sails down a river into a soaring city, full of playful steampunk touches and intricately imagined architecture.