Sentence examples for wise playful from inspiring English sources

Rohmer's rich, wise, playful study of a modern single woman and her search for companionship, a decent summer holiday, or simply something to alleviate her boredom.

I saw how he, with help from a wise, playful baboon, came to his senses, and realigned with his faith and courage.

Marina Warner's Stranger Magic is as absorbing, wise and playful as the Arabian Nights tales themselves.

This is especially frustrating given Kiersey Clemens's wise and playful screen presence.

Léa is both wise and playful, jaded and vulnerable, a ravishing beauty who looks every minute of her 49 years.

The generosity of spirit is on its way as she meets a sweet bee, a hard working spider, and a wise but playful snake, who happens to be a vegan chef.

Occasionally, the playful wise guy still surfaces.

His pronouncements are both serious and self-parodying, often lascivious ("A dinner which ends without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye") and, in this volume, amplified by the playful, wise commentary of MFK Fisher, who translated the text in 1949.

"Courageous, playful, wise, brilliant, and a feast for the eyes and ears, Prince epitomized the word music.

It is a gorgeous display of narrative wizardry, at once opulent, erotic, playful and wise.

For the most part, however, the book is wise, witty and winningly playful – rather like the philosopher himself.