| 单词 | toy with |
| 例句 | Doreen wasn't saying a word, she only toyed with her cork placemat and eventually lit a cigarette, but the man didn't seem to mind. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z She toyed with the pearls, sliding them between her fingers one by one as if she were counting them. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “Do you think this drill is made to toy with like a lotus flower? If Pai sees me idle here...” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z His fingers toyed with the hilt of his borrowed blade, though Dany knew he had never used a sword in earnest. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z If I was going to toy with him and challenge his loyalty, then he’d toy with me, test my integrity. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She kept her face neutral as he toyed with a ring on his finger. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Littlefinger toyed with the dagger on the table, turning it slowly with a finger. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She toyed with a pen on his desk. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z His voice was flat, resigned, and I thought, Had my sister toyed with him? It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z He toyed with the little red strip that opens the pack before slipping it back into his pocket. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When he saw how high the log floated in the water, his mind again toyed with the idea that had scared him earlier. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z For the first time since ReelTok outed me, I begin to toy with the possibility that I’m not the worst person in the history of the planet. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z He also toyed with the idea of having the words move up and down with the shape of the tune. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “That ostrich you have in your display window,” Rick said; he toyed with a ceramic ashtray before him on the desk. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Sure, it wasn’t nice the way that Reggie had toyed with him, but this was just delaying the inevitable. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Let’s not toy with this poor boy more than you already have. We don’t want anything to happen to him.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Tanin toyed with a silver penknife, twirling it impatiently between her fingers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The princess toyed with one of the gold bangles around her wrist. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The cars toy with them, appearing now in front, now to the side, now behind, coming and going so quickly he can’t be sure if he saw them at all. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Her fingers toyed with the clouds and she imagined Sean striding up to her, releasing her from this horrible prison. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The aunts toyed with their food, silent and formal with one another beneath the littles’ shouts. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Holly toyed with the idea of visiting Disneyland Paris. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I toy with shouting some tidbit more—some terrifying, unthinkable threat, some blackly fuliginous riddling hex—but my heart’s not in it. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “And now, patron, tell me what I can do for you,” Transito Soto finally said, settling into the reclining seat of an airplane pilot while she toyed with the pearls around her neck. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But Capricorn only toyed with the belt of his dressing gown, looking bored. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She looked like a carved whirligig toy with six flying arms and a hopping head. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps he slowed in hopes of finding an opponent to toy with. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z His hand landed right by her thigh and, building up his courage, he flicked his fingers so they toyed with Anastasia’s hair. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Once again she toyed with the idea of running away. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “She told you. She told you a month ago that you were just going to toy with me.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I even toyed with the idea that perhaps we had been close to each other in some former life—a mother and child, even. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Brent toys with him—most times retreating, but then adding a bounce to quicken his speed for a lunge, then hit. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Suddenly I decided to toy with him a little. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z However, in 1869, at the age of thirty-five, he began to toy with a way to arrange the elements. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Hector frowns, watching as she absently toys with the ring on her right hand. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Dill looked down and toyed with the peg game, suddenly less cheery. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z During the day, she toyed with the idea of running away. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Across from me, Angie toyed with her food, dispersing it over her plate so that it would look as if she’d eaten it. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Middle-class supporters of public bilingualism toy with the confusion of those Americans who cannot speak standard English as well as they can. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Chandresh takes credit only for the white blooms, keeping one pinned to his lapel that he toys with distractedly throughout the service. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Helmuth toys with the idea of telling his friends the truth. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z I toyed with a pencil lying on the counter, spinning it idly this way and that. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z She toyed with her knife making circular depressions in a pat of butter and the movement hypnotized me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z She toyed with the dial of her combination lock, twisting it this way and that, and decided to be bold again. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The toys with the edge of an empty glass. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Farid shifted on his seat and toyed with the keys still hanging from the ignition switch. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z George toyed with telling Mom about the plan, but she remembered Mom’s words: one step at a time. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z My heart contracted with fear as I considered that Claudius had discovered my hiding place and now would toy with me, as a cat does a mouse. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “You’re trying to toy with him. Make him like you and then sashay on your merry way.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z His fingers toyed with the wood as he looked up at the sunrise that had begun to glow warmly over the trees. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Some scientists toyed with the idea that the spiral nebulae were not distant island universes but rather nearby condensing clouds of interstellar gas, perhaps on their way to make solar systems. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Lourdes’s sister Mirian toys with the idea of bringing her children to the United States but quickly dismisses it as too dangerous. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She toyed with the flap and it came easily undone. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She speared a bite on the point of the knife and ate it with relish, while her hostess toyed with her own portion, then blew on it fastidiously, steam coming from the crisp brown meat. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z If Penny falls, Lidia scoops her up and hands her a toy with blinking lights or one that jingles; some toys do both, unfortunately. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Asta perched on the table as a squirrel and toyed with a nut. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z His left arm shot out, sort of like a toy with a spring-loaded karate chop. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z She was no one to be toyed with, for she could shape icebergs into towers so high they scratched the sky. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He lifted the glass and drained the liquor and set it down and leaned forward and toyed with the cigarette in his fingers. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “What’s the point of this place, other than for you to get off on how great you are and toy with people and their feelings? I know what you did to Ruby.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z This was why your grandparents banned Tarzan and the Lone Ranger and toys with white faces from the house. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Holly toyed with a strand of her hair, coiling it around her little finger. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z For a while he toyed with his hat, not to any purpose that I could see, but as if lost in thought. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z As she drank, I slipped my arm around her and toyed with the skin of her bare back. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z One hand carried a gigantic bag, the kind that holds passports, engagement diaries, and bridge scores, while the other hand toyed with that inevitable lorgnette, the enemy to other people’s privacy. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z After his grandparents went to bed, he rigged up an antenna and toyed with the radio dials, tuning in a German-language newscast on the BBC. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The woman in pedal pushers patiently toyed with her line. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She toyed with a slice of cantaloupe on a blue plate. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Up until then, I’d toyed with the idea of dating him, even though I knew I wasn’t allowed. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z She reached out, toyed with a button of his shirt; in slow, facile twists she began unbuttoning it. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z He toyed with the idea of coming right out and telling them they could never come to his room again. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z She toyed with the knot, using both front paws. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I must say I toyed with the idea of making ice skates. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He just sat there and toyed with his mask. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z "You know how much I love to toy with things." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z He toyed with a pencil and looked up at me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Kaede toys with her like a cat playing with her food before lashing out again with her fist. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Styx toyed with the cigarette between his fingers. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z He toyed with my hand for a moment silently. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z And the master would smile at Miss Susan, and toy with his watch chain. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I was only allowed to bring one toy with me. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Unhitching the Basecamp at the dealership, I felt a wave of gloom, like I was returning a toy with which I hadn’t finished playing. For convenience-minded road-trippers, the Airstream mystique in a smaller package 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z For a while, Mr. Cumming toyed with the idea of writing an account of his life in show business. For Alan Cumming, Life Isn’t Always a Cabaret 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Especially a listener like Polonius, who is a little slow on the uptake and could easily be toyed with by an impatient prince of quicksilver intellect. Critic?s Notebook: On the Stage, Old Words Are Reborn 2010-12-31T22:25:35Z Here, he plays a Vintage Tom Cruise Role: He gets to be charming but also toy with the idea that he might be a little nuts. Capsule reviews: `Knight and Day' and others 2010-06-24T20:48:00Z In her dreamy paintings of girls in verdant landscapes, Vera Iliatova toys with conventional associations of nature, femininity, childhood and innocence. Vera Iliatova: ‘For Now, at Once’ 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Instead he toyed with kitsch and calendar art, and based paintings on found photographs. Francis Picabia, the Playboy Prankster of Moderism 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z But I picked “Bob & Nancy” because it’s about a marionette theater, and thus it toys with ideas of animating the inanimate — rich ground for a show in touch with the spirit realm. The Best TV Episodes of 2021 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Nadon, also reprising Dewdrop, was remarkable in her musicality; letting her glamorous face linger here while her feet sped up over there, she toyed with phrasing, gracing the stage with her dazzling flow and sweep. What Does an Angel See in Her Future? Maybe a Sugarplum Fairy. 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Neither detracted from the show, which was as sparkling as ever, and full of big issues toyed with articulately. Radio review: Start the Week 2010-10-12T07:00:00Z Much of this material is winningly geeky and enthusiastic: “As front matter goes, I get especially giddy about translator’s notes, and for years I’ve toyed with the idea of editing an anthology of them.” A Serious Reader Offers Appealingly Casual Thoughts on Reading, and Life 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Still an undergraduate at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he’s been continuing lessons with his teacher over video chat this spring, and working on the improvisations and arrangements he likes to toy with. The Sheku Effect: A Classical Music Star Rises 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Although she has never said so, few in the party would be surprised if she had, like her fellow MP Louise Mensch, toyed with a Labour vote. Claire Perry: a new breed of iron lady 2012-05-27T20:53:51Z Laid off two years later, she set to work that very day mocking up a Web page for the nonprofit news site she had long toyed with starting — and just kept on reporting. Robin Kemp lost her news job in Clayton County, Ga. — but she kept reporting the news. It paid off on election week. 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z She plays with its creeds the way that a cat might toy with a mouse — teasing, batting, swiping, mauling. Review: In ‘Kate,’ Tracing the Tears of a Clown 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z He toys with Douglas Coupland’s idea that the subconscious is “very much like Antarctica,” or that there is an association, especially for writers, “between white snow and white paper.” An Essayist Searching for Alternate Worlds 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z The film's opening hour is an evenly-paced gangster thriller that toys with the character as cultural export. The Wolverine – first look review of Marvel's blockbuster 2013-07-18T10:46:00Z But it toys with every genre under the sun. An Epic From Iceland, Complete With Unicorns, Angels and a Stamp-Collecting Werewolf 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z They toyed with the idea of selling site-selection information to businesses before realizing they were already giving it away for free. The Web for the neighborhood 2012-07-04T14:05:00Z “Revenge of the Pink Panther” toyed with the idea of Clouseau’s demise. ‘Pink Panther’ and ‘Decoy’ Return on Disc 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z I've never met anyone that has done that, but I think people have implicit bias that they don't even realize they have, and I like to toy with that. "The View" host Sunny Hostin elevates the beach read with Black stories at the forefront 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z In his use of the body, Kylian mostly toyed with extremes and unease. Boston Ballet performs ‘Bella Figura’ at the Kennedy Center I toyed with staying, but decided that would probably not be wise. Pursuits: Moving to the Rhythms of Rio 2013-07-12T17:36:49Z Koechner says he thinks the idea of splitting the movie into two was actually toyed with by producers, but that there was no good place to stop in the middle. Jellyfish and Kanye: 5 Hilarious Behind-the-Scene Moments from Anchorman 2 2013-12-10T10:45:35Z “We like to toy with it. We like to take the irony on, and also not be dictated about what kind of republicanism we’re going to believe in.” A Celtic Revival, in Hip-Hop and More 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z She only had to toy with going too far. Olivia Newton-John: That Headband Was a Crown 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z I toyed with the rhubarb, and the spuds looked good, but it's all a pain to carry when you're cruising the commercial stands and the artists' projects, diving into talks and watching the film programme. Frieze London 2012: the speed-dating approach to art fairs 2012-10-10T17:21:45Z In Baldwin’s book the character toys with a shawl, to see if it lends her authority, but the hairpiece felt right to King. Beale Street's Regina King: 'Awards season is like a new full-time job!' 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z So much for furthering the ambitions of Anderson and the other six artists in Pyramid Atlantic Art Center’s “Mazes and Maps,” which toys with everything from the Bermuda Triangle to the game Monopoly. Review | In the galleries: Celebrating the art of the game with unexpected delights 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z The movie toys with stereotypes that it seems to mock but also silently depends on. “Ocean’s 8” Isn’t Up to the Talents of Its Female Stars 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Krauss’s illuminating novel toys with questions of identity that resist easy answers. New in Paperback: ‘Ranger Games,’ ‘Conversations With Friends’ 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z I ask whether she ever toys with visitors to the exhibition by sending in a decoy postcard. RCA Secret postcards sale 2013: three big names to look out for 2013-03-13T16:06:01Z The freshest takes these days find new ways to subvert, escape or toy with the familiar cliches. 'The American epic': Hollywood's enduring love for the western 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Although history records Mary Ovington and W. E. B. Du Bois’s connection as a close friendship, the script toys with the question of whether there was more. Theater Review: ‘Dr. Du Bois and Miss Ovington,’ From the New Federal Theater 2014-01-31T22:37:49Z At Kenny's, the waiter couldn't tempt Cook, between six or seven margaritas, to do more than toy with a quesadilla. Margaritas with Peter Cook 2012-11-18T00:08:02Z Mr. Touitou even toyed with the idea of relocating to Los Angeles himself, but decided that moving his studios would be impossible. Los Angeles Is Becoming Paris Amid the Palms 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z She wasn’t going to toy with me at that level. 2014 Emmy Nominations: Natasha Lyonne 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Most are light-colored fedoras embellished with designs that exemplify the artists’ styles, yet a few toy with the very idea of a hat. Review | In the galleries: Artists talk through their hats 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Rolling down Atlantic swells, I often toyed with the idea that the world would be a different place when I next reached civilisation. ‘My sailing trip changed me, and the world I left behind’ 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z He had initially toyed with featuring a sister in his vast novel’s title — a double for his sometimes lonely hero. ‘The Man Without Qualities’ Acquires a New Volume 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z He then toys with the affections of a naive young woman as sentimental and innocent as he once was. ‘The Same Old Story’ is anything but 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z And yet, Tatum also has to let himself get a little goofy and toy with his hunky image as the film itself gets goofy, which he does with great enthusiasm. A look at Channing Tatum's 5 films this year 2012-09-14T00:46:04Z Greek gods toyed with mortals, sending Odysseus toward conniving sirens, a Cyclops and other dangers on his journey home from war. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' an apocalyptic tale as old as man's existence 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z But they are in fact paintings, made by someone unafraid to embrace the medium or its history, or to toy with the ratios of hedonism and skepticism therein. Art in Review: JOHN MCALLISTER: ?Damned Sparkling Pomp? 2011-10-20T18:54:20Z He giggled to himself as he toyed with some of the fake technology, occasionally exclaiming “Engage!,” and flashed a thumbs-up across the room to the “Picard” star Patrick Stewart as he rehearsed a scene. Can ‘Star Trek’ Chart a Way Forward? 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z This showcase, presented by Newtown Radio, the Bushwick Internet radio station, was one of the festival’s most promising, with a host of acts that toy with a mix of strong melody and purposeful obfuscation. Music Review: Keyboard Speaks Louder Than a Microphone 2011-06-20T21:56:23Z Set in post-Brexit England, Smith’s novel toys with our notion of time. What books to read in 2017: 26 titles to start the year 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Advertisement Their wry vérité style, which occasionally borrows images from Western media, “plays in a very, very sophisticated way with the history of filmmaking, subverts it, toys with it and advances it,” Ms. Kuoni said. Syrian Film Collective Offers View of Life Behind a Conflict 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z From War Casualty to Zombie, and Happy to Be Undead A middling zombie movie elevated by clever writing and gooeylicious special effects, Kerry Prior’s “Revenant” toys with big themes but settles for uneasy laughs. Movie Review: ‘The Revenant,’ Horror-Comedy Directed by Kerry Prior 2012-08-23T23:44:35Z The Skin I Live In is freely adapted from the novel Tarantula by Thierry Jonquet, and the movie toys with literary reference. The Skin I Live In ? review 2011-08-25T13:00:01Z "The character represented an opportunity to take an audience and really toy with them." McAvoy: 'I toy with the audience' 2013-10-05T00:32:04Z Initially Mr. Tweedy also toyed with the idea of having Wilco play on the record as Ms. Staples’s backing group. Music: A Little Nudge, and a Soul Singer Is Back to Her Roots 2010-09-19T04:35:00Z Other pieces toy with form and found objects. In the galleries: Hand Print Workshop celebrates two colorful decades 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z He toyed with buzzing textures and insistent dissonances in a brisk version of “Aquarela do Brasil,” and in his “P’ro Flavio,” a whirlwind of dissonance and pointillistic picking coalesced into yet another upbeat melody. Music Review: Badi Assad Is a Headliner at New York Guitar Festival 2014-01-21T22:43:03Z Over the winter, Zumthor toyed with the idea of constructing the whole museum of white concrete. Peter Zumthor's plan for LACMA undergoes makeover 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z She even toyed with the idea of moving to Montana, to which Ms. Kidder had already decamped. Jennifer Salt: The Story Behind the Writer 2010-07-21T22:30:00Z Robert’s double life has obvious parallels with Walter White’s dual existence in “Breaking Bad,” and the screenplay toys with the possibility of Robert’s crossing over to the dark side. Review: In ‘The Infiltrator,’ Bryan Cranston Tunnels Into a Menacing Drug Network 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Some scientists have toyed with the idea of fighting parasite extinctions by bringing them back from the dead. Parasites may not be cute and cuddly, but they need saving too, scientists say 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z “You do NOT get to toy with our lives and emotions like this Shonda, NO! That is NOT RIGHT! How do you sleep at night?!?!!” 'Grey's Anatomy' Fans Launch Petition to Bring Mcdreamy Back 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z Drake, the group’s citymate, toys with a similar aesthetic, but the Weekend takes his ambivalent emotional tenor and stretches it out, building a whole worldview from it. Playlist: Screams That Charmed, and Other Overlooked Highlights 2010-12-31T19:54:24Z As if its length weren’t enough, this last title also toys with marks, punctuation and capitalization. So, You’re Going to Call Your Play _____? 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z They heard the song the same way and toyed with it, slowing a sequence of steps, for instance, to underscore its poignancy. Perspective | Peloton’s Cody Rigsby is powerfully predictable on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z On numerous occasions Eisenhower toyed with the idea of dropping nuclear bombs to sway foreign conflicts. Under the surface of Eisenhower’s era 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z That phrase, which gives a dramatist the license to toy with facts in search of a larger meaning, must go back to Euripides. Phil Spector’s Greatest Hit 2013-03-21T09:45:43Z The excellent cast stays alert to the turns of everyday speech Norris toys with, and their timing is spot-on. 'Clybourne Park': A racially divided neighborhood, close to home 2012-04-27T23:34:03Z Cat Tail anal plug. This one arms a fairly standard sex toy with an extra feature. For the love of artificial hymens: 10 of the weirdest sex toys for women 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z Ms. Lange had always toyed with the idea of sharing her family story. Liz Lange Lets the Sun Into Grey Gardens 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z He toyed with the neckline, gathering it in his fingers. Reed Krakoff Will Show His First Collection Since Leaving Coach 2014-02-05T23:49:10Z Separate beds, however, are not to be toyed with. Is it normal for couples to swap sides? How to share a bed and be happy 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z An erotic toy with built-in flash memory is the latest addition to a growing, evolving industry. Noted: Noted — A Vibrator That Will Make Her Thankful for the Memory 2012-12-20T19:46:14Z The questions Lost toys with are the ones mankind has toyed with since the beginning of time, couched in a character-driven drama. 'Lost'-How Will It End? 2010-05-20T19:41:00Z None of the teachers made much headway in the classroom, as the kids toyed with their phones and chatted amongst themselves. Rewind TV: Jamie's Dream School; Attenborough and the Giant Egg; The Promise 2011-03-06T00:09:51Z The Japanese artist is known for her psychedelic, repetition-based work that toy with color, form and perception. Essential Arts & Culture: Kusama-palooza, Getty Center's birthday, censored Hollywood public art 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z After Andy drops off his old toys with a new family, Woody and the gang sit up to watch him drive away. 10 Times Pixar Movies Broke Your Heart 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z The predators plan to toy with them, then pick them off one by one. | 'Predators': Adrien Brody as a Hunted Earthling 2010-07-08T23:31:00Z She also made it sound as if she planned to retire from acting once and for all, something she'd toyed with previously. Foster reveals she's gay, suggests she's retiring 2013-01-14T04:27:10Z He toyed with the idea of multiple casting, but Sondheim nixed that idea, telling Arden that he wanted to stay true to the wishes of Furth. Michael Arden, man of the moment in L.A. theater, merrily rolls along 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z But Holbein’s subjects don’t toy with you and they rarely project the joie de vivre seen in the Italian portraits. Review | The first major Hans Holbein exhibition in the U.S. shows us the sobering reality of raw power 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z She often introduces a melody by landing firmly on each note, then returns to toy with it in sliding, fluttering phrases, not for vocal display but to convey a sense of freedom. Review: Lianne La Havas Sings of Love and Identity 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z The ensemble’s first major commission, Mr. Lang’s “the so-called laws of nature,” balanced humor and poise in a series of movements that toyed with the notion of unison and discord. Review: With Flower Pots and Toys, an Ensemble’s Fresh Take on Percussion 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z What bothers me about season two though is the extent to which the details of the many alternate realities don't mesh, leaving the viewer feeling toyed with rather than intrigued. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2 Finale: Fade to Black 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z It hooks by allowing the player to toy with the innermost thoughts of its main character. 'Sunset': An engaging game about war's toll on a housekeeper 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Anadol is not the first post-painting artist to toy with perspective, updating a technique originally meant to enhance realism so that it instead produces psychedelic visions. Review | In the galleries: Artechouse’s ‘Infinite Space’ has waves of natural influences 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Her paintings have toyed with unlikely intersections of architectural space, abstract patterns and textile prints. The Artist Testing the Limits of Ceramics 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z He holds entertainments in America’s stadiums, where he toys with his political enemies, delighting his band of followers while terrorizing other citizens. Donald Trump, the Great Embarrassment 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z He has never tried to force me into the role of housekeeper, primary carer, on-demand sex toy with a pulse, or support staff. Kasey Edwards: I love being married, but am I the exception? 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z In Memento, he toys with the complexities of a thriller shot backwards. In praise of ? Christopher Nolan 2010-07-21T23:05:00Z The Canadian creator puts two decades of thoughtfully plotted work on dazzling display in this “picture novel” — a career achievement that masterfully toys with time. The best graphic novels, memoirs and story collections of 2019 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Wagner uses musical tricks to toy with his audience, says Mr Dreyfus. A spine-tingling and blissful infinity 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z This was a distinctively modern philosophical conundrum, and Soto more explicitly toyed with it in three-dimensional constructions, also from the early ’50s. Art Review: ?Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950-1970? at N.Y.U. - Review 2012-01-13T16:11:35Z Instead, she toys with the clichés of mourning art and ritual in a stylish postmodern manner. In ‘Rachel, Monique,’ Sophie Calle Eulogizes Her Mother 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Ferver’s script toys with the Henry James themes of the story line: innocent America corrupted by Europe. Review: An Innocent Abroad (Beware the Boss’s Bite) 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z I toyed with the idea of doing some stage but over the years, there wasn't the right projects for me ... A Minute With: Katharine McPhee star of "Smash" 2012-02-01T10:10:42Z Messiaen, who died in 1992, regularly toyed with ideas about time, doing away with traditional meters and the development of themes. Olivier Messiaen wrote music in a Nazi prison camp. Artist Susan Silton has asked women to perform it 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z In the latter case, she produces optical art-inspired works that toy with human perception. Olivier Messiaen wrote music in a Nazi prison camp. Artist Susan Silton has asked women to perform it 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z She inflicts damage on her broke ex-husband’s car and toys with his career aspirations. A New Movie About Female Power Might Explain the Election 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Artists at the animation studio toyed with changing Peabody’s appearance, but largely preserved his upright, graphically spare design, bow-tie and glasses. A career comeback for Mr. Peabody 2014-03-06T19:34:07Z It felt really fun to toy with this idea of fate and spirituality when it comes to their relationship. "Killing Eve" boss on that shocking finale: "It just felt like the most truthful end" 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z In Strauss’s “Morgen,” with the violinist David Chan, she toyed with the tempo to arresting effect. Review: Anna Netrebko Sang a Recital. Of Course She Brought Props. 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z It toys with that music, along with ballet conventions, but it indulges in them nevertheless. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Spring Season Begins 2014-04-30T17:50:19Z Interactive Entertainment, TT Games and the Lego Group introduced "Lego Dimensions," which combines the world of brick toys with digital gaming. Warner Bros., Lego team up on interactive game 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z I toyed with the idea for years, because I felt it could be very embarrassing — potentially disrespectful to my dad and to the movie “Jaws,” which I love. The ‘Jaws’ Shoot Was a Drama. Now It’s a Play. 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z They toyed with that issue by framing the story with Davis as a storyteller, recounting parts of his life in his own unique fashion. Miles Ahead: Don Cheadle on doing Miles Davis justice on screen 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z He toyed with this idea for weeks, expressing hope that a lightning bolt of clarity would at some point galvanize him into making a choice. My Boyfriend Has Two Girlfriends. Should I Be His Third? 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z And far from subverting the trope of the “tragic mulatto,” Senna toys with it. ‘New People’ Riffs on Race and Love, With a Twist 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Ever since he departed briefly from his own lucrative brand to star in Paul Thomas Anderson's skew-whiff rom-com Punch-Drunk Love in 2002, he has shown an occasional willingness to tamper and toy with his persona. Adam Sandler: goofy chipmunk known for fart jokes has a serious side too 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z As a child, he toyed with the family piano, which otherwise lay idle. Schubert’s Sonatas, and a Pianist, Come Into Their Own 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z She toys with mythological characters and thoughts of the National Security Agency. Critic’s Notebook: Albums by Natalie Merchant, Tori Amos and Sarah McLachlan 2014-05-07T21:46:14Z I was quite keen on Jesus and toyed with Christianity in my teens. Emma Thompson: ‘Dieting screwed up my metabolism. I regret ever going on one' 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z He wanted to toy with those aspects of the theater itself as tools for telling the story. The Movie Is Opening Wide. The Screen Is Changing Shape. 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Once in a while such a story connects becomes a film sensation, as when Marlon Brando toyed with Maria Schneider in an unfurnished Paris hotel room in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris. Review: 'Fifty Shades of Grey': Where's the Wicked Whiplash? 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z He’s become more ambitious in how he toys with audience expectations. The W. Kamau Bell Legacy: A Talk Show Five Years Ahead of Its Time 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Susan Choi has a thrillingly interesting new novel out, “Trust Exercise,” that toys with themes of appropriation, and with the reader. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Kingsbridge council toyed with planting the box with flowers or using it as a place to distribute leaflets. British red phone box reborn as tiny nightclub 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z A suite of wall-mounted sculptural voids that toy with perceptions of surface and depth—think carnival fun house meets high Minimalism—completes the show. Recent works by British artist Anish Kapoor are on view at a compelling new show 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z The D.J.’s do know one rock song: Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” toyed with by Junior Sanchez and later, shamelessly, exploited as a full-length singalong by the German D.J. Music Review: Electric Daisy Carnival New York at MetLife Stadium 2012-05-21T03:57:17Z “I’d toyed with the idea of doing a West End show for years,’” he says. David Mitchell: ‘I see myself as a coward’ 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z I've tried to discourage him, put him in front of the telly, bought him toys with batteries to lower his attention span, I'm saving up for iPads and Wiis and everything. Child Genius; Agnetha: Abba and After – TV review 2013-06-12T06:00:04Z In the weeks that followed I toyed with my own desire. Modern Love: A Measure of Desire Modern Love 2012-06-28T21:46:34Z New Zealand model Geeling Ng plays the China girl in scenes that toy with Oriental stereotypes, juxtaposed with bits where she and a blond Bowie flirt weirdly. Adam Buxton: a music video for every mood 2012-07-06T23:05:00Z Thinkers have toyed with theories of error since Plato’s time, many of them generally agreeing with Albert Einstein, who said, “If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research, would it?” Books of The Times: ?Being Wrong,? by Kathryn Schulz; ?Wrong,? by David H. Freedman 2010-06-10T21:43:00Z Slinkachu, meanwhile, toys with scale to play on ideas of loneliness and anonymity, especially in urban environments. Masters of miniature 2011-02-27T00:04:03Z How could he bear being toyed with like this? Stabbed tongues and swallowed eyeballs: was the Amazing Johnathan's terminal diagnosis his greatest trick? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Eventually, like a destination appearing out of fog, a lopsided groove emerges: a composed passage the band toys with until suddenly lurching to a stop for more free play, pairing off in duets or trios. Myra Melford Builds Anew With an All-Star, All-Woman Quintet 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z In the suite, which includes the famous "Air on a G String," Dudamel toyed with a period practice approach, which included ornamentations and quirky accents and worked very well. Bach and Brahms, still revolutionary 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Miller and Lord previously toyed with Star Wars lore in their biggest hit, The Lego Movie. Lego Movie team to direct Star Wars spin-off about young Han Solo 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z On all of these major releases, the music often eluded genre, tried odd structures and toyed with austerity or overload; there was a sense, illusory or not, of private statements being unveiled. With Streaming, Musicians and Fans Find Room to Experiment and Explore 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Robert Downey Jr.’s 10-year reign as Iron Man was given an extensive wake in “Avengers: Endgame,” a film that toyed with the deaths of half of Marvel’s heroes in the lead-in “snap” cliffhanger. About that ‘No Time to Die’ ending… 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z “We definitely toyed with the idea of going with an underground name, like the Trappezoids or something,” Amanda says with a laugh. For the younger von Trapps, the sound of music is indie rock 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z He toys with sparseness, then a new pitched percussion chord leads to a subtle electric guitar declaration; it’s lightly distorted, yet not driven in an overly obvious way. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z The Lopezes have a story about how they were once in a Disney store before Christmas, queueing to buy Frozen toys with everybody else. ‘I must have watched it 50 times’: a Frozen dad prepares for the sequel 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Backed by a guitarist in a balaclava, he briefly toyed with a keyboard on “Perfect Time.” Review | Fresh off a Grammy win and still No. 1 on the charts, Roddy Ricch rides high at 9:30 Club 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z With sounds ranging from full-blooded to spectral, Ms. Cuckson toyed with degrees of presence. Review: Miranda Cuckson and Ekmeles Draw Links Across Time 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z He toys with bewildered stabs at virtue, to understandably little effect. Is Archipelago a class act or an empty gesture? 2011-03-14T12:05:29Z He toyed with his married neighbours for years, never quite understanding that Ann and Martin, for all her frustration, had a love that couldn’t be chipped by the semi-serious advances of an over-sexed hairdresser. From Friends to the Office: TV’s 10 best love triangles 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z By that measurement, “Memories…Do Not Open” — the first full-length Chainsmokers album — is a savvy success that cannily toys with expectations. Review: The Chainsmokers Find That Pop Is an Awkward Fit 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z After perusing the historic sex toys with growing horror, we wandered into a lecture where a woman was sharing the pros and cons of various online dating sites. Putting Love to the Stress Test 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z What Ms. Gadsby glosses over is that it’s a nimble art form, one whose conventions can be toyed with or subverted or stuck to rigidly. If Comedy Is Making You Feel Bad, You’re Not Paying Attention 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z In fact, should a wife later forget her legal status as a sex toy with a pulse, the law permitted her husband to use physical force to remind her. “The rape-your-wife privilege”: The horrifying modern legal history of marital rape 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z It juxtaposes items such as busts of Hitler and Nazi-era toys with artifacts from concentration camps and footage of events such as the book-burning that followed Hitler's rise to power. German Jewish leader welcomes Hitler exhibition 2010-10-15T13:18:00Z But it has a loony, breathless intensity that sucks you in and a willingness to toy with its regular characters’ emotions, and question their motives, that is dramatically suspect but melodramatically potent. ‘Trigger Point’ Review: Pure Pressure à la ‘Line of Duty’ 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z But among the interesting ideas he toys with is the notion that lying, as one interviewee puts it, “is the great theme of South American literature.” Books of The Times: ‘All Men Are Liars,’ a Novel by Alberto Manguel 2012-06-21T21:51:49Z As we toyed with our chicken, another guest and I discovered we’d attended the same West Coast high school and East Coast college, then earned English Ph.D.s while working as journalists. Fool Me Twice? Yes, Please 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Closer to home, he has begun to toy with the possibility of a refuge in upstate New York. 'America's top satirist' 2010-09-04T23:02:00Z The scene ends ugly, as Mr. C toys with Renzo, then soundly defeats him and subsequently murders him with a single face-crushing punch. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 13: Starting Position 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z Another measure of Keegan’s gentle Eddie, though, is that he doesn’t so much toy with Martin as he tries to get him to understand. ‘Fool for Love’ at Round House, taking the edge off Shepard Stravinsky, in his elegant Serenade in A, which opened the program, also toyed with Baroque forms, reflecting the 18th century through a 20th century prism. Music Review: Finding Poetry in Schoenberg?s Hurdles 2010-08-29T23:13:00Z “I did toy with being a barrister for a long while,” he said. Benedict Cumberbatch Acts Clever Again in ‘The Imitation Game’ 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z There is, he admits, a streak of perversity in his character that likes to toy with notions of highbrow and lowbrow. Matilda: Thank heaven for little girls 2010-12-27T22:00:00Z “Plano” toys with language, form and expectations, and the excellent cast savors its elisions and tonal fluxes. Review: The Women of ‘Plano’ Are All About Men 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z In the 1960s, the Pop artist Wynn Chamberlain often toyed with making a movie and spent time visiting various avant-garde filmmakers on their sets. Unearthing a Celluloid Artifact of the ?60s 2011-04-08T23:38:27Z His build, which at least pre-Batman buffing up, was big but a bit soft around the edges, suggests a kind of weakness than can be toyed with, tempted. Ben Affleck gets the manipulated man's every twist and turn right 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Given the sweeping popularity of Italian opera in Vienna, however, he toyed with the idea of presenting the work elsewhere. The Dancer Who Made Beethoven’s Ninth Happen 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z “Flight” toys with an interesting idea or two: the slipperiness of truth, the unreliability of memory. Theater Review: ?Flight,? by Michel Wallerstein, at the DR2 Theater 2012-03-09T23:30:54Z A subtle, savvy performer, Mr. Funches toys with the assumptions of the audience, using them to create tension and set up his jokes. Ron Funches Works a Crowd, and Its Assumptions 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z The film toys with those perceptions, tagging along as Landis perpetrates one of his con jobs. At AFI Docs, bold characters and controversial stories take the spotlight Better Call Saul had a weird start – before it began, it was envisioned as a half-hour sitcom – and early episodes toyed with slightly uncomfortable comedic japes, such as the billboard scheme from series one. 'S’all good, man': How Better Call Saul became superior to Breaking Bad 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Judith Capen and Andrew Wohl also toy with heft and airiness: She attaches an eggshell to a hanging metal spring, while he bends steel lengths in a sort of industrial origami. Review | In the galleries: A revelatory exhibition by D.C. artist Jonathan Monaghan 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z On the way he must traverse a panoply of three-dimensional worlds that toy with almost every assumption of space and gravity and then reaffirm them. Video Game Review: Still Saving Princess Peach in Super Mario Galaxy 2 2010-05-24T22:53:00Z The best trance sets on Saturday toyed with the cycle. Music Review: Electric Zoo 2011, Dance Festival on Randalls Island 2011-09-04T22:47:17Z I laughed, but I wondered: Did the woman know, even dimly, that she was being toyed with? “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Before killing his victims, whom he refers to as his playmates, he often toys with them, engaging them in conversation. Get Your Kill Room Ready. Dexter Is Back. 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z The director said he’s toyed with that idea but is leaning towards 10 as a flat number. Quentin Tarantino says if he commits to directing "Star Trek," that’s his last movie 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z So at his suggestion, carpenters in his studio toyed with making simple thronelike structures from reclaimed factory timbers. Possessed: Salvaged Industrial Wood Becomes Art 2011-10-07T18:25:24Z Vaizey, shadow arts minister, toyed with the idea of appointing, were the Tories to win, a chief architect to encourage more thoughtful development. What have Labour done for architecture? 2010-04-21T20:30:00Z It announced that Amalia, then age 8, was available to repair toys with open seams, ripped-off arms and legs, and other injuries. 9-year-old gives tattered stuffed toys a new life 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z It looks as if the rumors might have just been one big misdirect to toy with fans leading up to the Christmas special. 'Doctor Who' star Jenna Coleman will remain for another season 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Stoppard toys with levels of reality, delusion and deception. Music Review: Something Borrowed and Something New 2011-05-08T22:19:30Z Is offering a toy with your junk food predatory marketing? Motherlode Blog: Happy Meal Lawsuit Dismissed 2012-04-05T22:54:23Z Recently I went back to the city where once we all lived, and I toyed with the idea of getting in touch with your family. A letter to… the child for whom I was once an au pair 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z Or pictures of a drawer of sex toys with a caption like “My spouse and I make sex normal by talking about sex — and making it fun!” Making sex “normal” 2013-03-20T00:01:00Z But just as often ideas gestate for years, sketches are made, concepts toyed with, works partly created then set aside and so on piecemeal. Art imitates art? Damien Hirst’s Venice Biennale installation looks a lot like another’s 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z So as the movie toyed with alternate endings, I could not help imagining my own. Love ‘La La Land’? Hate It? So Do We. 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Brown, owner of The Yard Entertainment, and Atwell, owner of Geronimo Films, had each toyed with the idea of using holograms in concerts for a decade, but the technology wasn't there. Holograms present celebs with new afterlife issues 2012-08-21T13:03:08Z It's based on the toy with tall, neon hair. Trolls take over Comic-Con, but not the internet kind 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z “Who I Am” is reminiscent of Justin Timberlake’s first post-’N Sync solo album, “Justified”: eager to toy with new influences, far from perfect. 2010-01-11T07:09:00Z While those authors toyed with facts, both books retained the veneer of truth. Alex Haley Taught America About Race — and a Young Man How to Write 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z The artist also toys with commercial iconography, offering an “11-Weed Blend” logo that mocks upscale coffee merchandising. In the galleries: Four artists’ views of nature, at McLean Project for the Arts On his trio’s new record, “The Other Side,” out Friday on ECM, Tord Gustavsen toys with atmosphere and partial abstraction: He’s engaged with the tenets of Norwegian jazz, basically. The Playlist: Eminem’s Surprise ‘Venom,’ and 10 More New Songs 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z A central scene of “Hagoromo” occurs in sustained silence, as Jock Soto, playing a fisherman, toys with a mysterious veil that he has found on a remote island. Review: ‘Hagoromo’ Offers More Than Dance at BAM Harvey Theater 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Idle toyed with updating the same-sex marriage joke that caps the Lancelot and Herbert scene — "Just think, Herbert, in a thousand years' time this will still be controversial" — but decided to leave well enough alone. 'Spamalot' a summer treat at Hollywood Bowl 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z If language shapes consciousness and consciousness determines what we experience as reality, then to toy with words in nonstandard ways might open heretofore closed doors of perception. Art In Review: KAY ROSEN: ?Wide and Deep? 2012-03-01T22:52:10Z As he and other proto-performers like Scotty the Blue Bunny took the stage between female acts, they toyed with audience expectations in a way that initially made some crowds uncomfortable. Boylesque, a Male Spin on the Classic Striptease 2012-11-14T22:44:21Z “The magic, the passion, the fashion, you toy with / The culture was never yours to make better.” Iggy Azalea Responds to Mackelmore's 'White Privilege' Criticism 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Having escaped the small automatons he had come to the museum to see, Mr. Rogers toyed with a puzzle wall and glanced at an exhibit on fractals before settling upstairs to discuss his work. The Playwright Mac Rogers Explores Robots, Aliens and Allegory 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z The movie would have been darker, nastier — and stronger — if they'd taken the opportunity to toy with each other's lives a bit more. The Change-Up: Body-Swapping, Plus Fake Boobs and F-Bombs 2011-08-04T16:15:00Z And though he has toyed with the idea of building a museum for his acquisitions, for now he is committed to taking them on tour. N.F.L. Owner by Day, Rock ’n’ Roller by Night 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Before that, he toyed with the ideas of poetry and pop stardom. How cookbook writer Eric Kim found home through Korean-American food 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z “Siren” likewise toys with the drama of attraction and repulsion: When the siren wails, do you dive toward it, or run away? In ‘Siren,’ Artists and Poets Singing From the Rocks 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z In one post you actually toyed with a whip. Michelle Pfeiffer Talks Scents 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Age: 5+ Mini Grey's irresistible Traction Man, a small toy with a large personality, is back for a new adventure of dramatic rescues and daring deeds. Book Doctor's top summer reads for under-5s 2011-07-18T15:31:05Z In opera of all periods, night scenes are an occasion for the composer to toy with orchestration and timbre, to create a numinous alternative world. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z I toyed with enclosing a note, decided against it. My Absent Father 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z In Berry’s virtuoso historical fantasy, the Greek gods toy with the hearts of four young mortals caught up in a chaotic First World War romance. Fascinating Alternate Histories in Four New Novels 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z In fact, he said, they toyed with the idea of naming the show “The Pit.” ?Parks and Recreation? Finds Its Legs on NBC 2011-10-05T22:00:14Z Later, I toyed with a theory that my eyesight had been permanently enhanced as a child by constantly scanning the horizon for dorsal fins. Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Shark? 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Some practiced dance moves, giggling as they swayed their hips; others toyed with musical instruments. Deaf West Theatre makes Tony winner 'Spring Awakening' all its known 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z As its title suggests, “Recollections of My Nonexistence” toys with the confessional form, letting us in only so far. Review | Rebecca Solnit, who inspired the term ‘mansplaining,’ explains herself (sort of) 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z He toyed with a pearl choker around his neck and then wandered off. Playing Cupid for a Gay Friend on a (Mostly) Straight Cruise 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z DeGeneres toyed with the Globes audience the same way she tortures her game-show contestants, letting them think she was going to give a dreadfully long speech and thanking her nonexistent husband, Mark, and their kids. Review | At the Golden Globes, Gervais’s sharpest barb poked Hollywood’s piety. Nobody cared. 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z In the 20th century, when communist revolutions swept away the established governments in places like Russia, China and Cuba, American leftists toyed with thoughts of effecting the same transformation in the United States. A New Thriller Imagines a Revolt Against the Corporate Order 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z This “M. Butterfly” is the same play, but with significant changes to let it toy with our perceptions afresh. New Flight for a New ‘Butterfly’ 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z You know that feeling when you were 5 years old, playing toys with your brother or buddy, and you have this private world you created together? Dispatches From the Nomad Musician Alex Zhang Hungtai 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z “Ocean,” the lead single from her album “She,” toys with folksy guitar before gliding into a peppy, delightful soul-pop refrain. Pop & Rock Listings for June 27-July 3 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z A musical that toys with Western views of Asia. Essential Arts: A violinist's royal wedding call, L.A.'s disappeared public art, 'Soft Power' debuts 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z The militant group banned toys with faces or eyes during the three years they controlled Iraq's second largest city, including any anthropomorphic animals, which they deemed a form of idolatry. Dolls, teddy bears return to eastern Mosul after Islamic State 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Bozzi toyed with opening a restaurant of his own, maybe a boîte with the speakeasy vibe of the original Palm. The Charmed Life of Bruce Bozzi 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z Later playwrights and filmmakers who toyed with the trope include Harold Pinter in Betrayal, Christopher Nolan in Memento and Gaspar Noê in Irreversible. A Sondheim Musical Rolls Back to Life 2012-02-15T16:40:10Z I toyed with making the world's greatest, easiest peanut butter cookies, but I couldn't be sure where everyone stood on peanuts. These two-ingredient brownies are one baking hack that doesn't sacrifice on flavor 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z Seeing the men's jaded experience through the nine-year-olds' eyes is both funny and poignant, and a superb example of Parajuly's urge to toy with modes of presentation. The Gurkha's Daughter by Prajwal Parajuly – review 2013-01-25T22:55:01Z "Directing was something that I toyed with in my mind, but, of course, it felt daunting," Bassett said when she dropped by The Times studio for a chat. Emmy Contenders: Angela Bassett goes behind the camera for 'Whitney' 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z As early as 1918, he toyed with gender roles in “I Don’t Want to be a Man.” Review | A forgotten filmmaker who influenced Alfred Hitchcock and Billy Wilder gets his due 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z Back in New York, they toyed with the idea of starting a little magazine. The Drift Wants You to ‘Examine Your Ideas’ 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z Or at least, to toy with that idea — to invite us all to imagine what would happen if we did away with triumphal arches, with “la gloire” and with military parades. Perspective | Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s wrap of L’Arc de Triomphe reads like a salient point on hollow glory 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z At one point, the directors toyed with doing one part in Spanish, with subtitles. ‘2666,’ a Most Difficult Novel, Takes the Stage 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Bond films have increasingly toyed with topicality, with Spectre hanging on an initiative to axe field agents in favour of virtual espionage. Danny Boyle's exit from James Bond throws franchise into chaos 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z In fact, he toyed with retiring after “Homeland” ended in 2020 but discovered during the pandemic that he missed the structure, the learning and even the anxiety of acting. Mandy Patinkin Finds Healing in Refugee Work and Praying With His Dog 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z A just-assembled quartet toyed with the jazz standard “Cherokee,” volleying solos until the melody was barely discernable. The best jazz clubs in Paris 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Just because the music sounds like the product of toys doesn’t mean it’s to be toyed with. The New Indie Pop: Off-Kilter, Handmade, Whimsical and Emotional 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z “I toyed with the idea off and on for a long time,” he says. Red Truck is rolling out another bakery — and thousands of holiday baked goods 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z He acted through high school, “toyed with the idea of being a lawyer,” and studied drama at the University of Manchester, then acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Benedict Cumberbatch and the Monsters Among Us 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z There’s a couple of ways we toy with his desire to go on the wagon, so to speak, to renounce power and seek healing. ‘The Rings of Power’: The Showrunners Unpack That Twisty Finale 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Briefly, Lenin toyed with the idea of renting an airplane and simply flying over Europe to land in Russia. Lenin and the Russian Spark 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z This is not a simple question, and it is one that Mr. Burton toys with to intriguing effect. ‘Big Eyes’ Casts Another Side of Keane Art 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Anything snappy and catchy — pop, hip-hop, reggae, rock, funk, electronic dance music — is hers to toy with. On a Surprise Album, Santigold Returns with Blithe Pop and Big Ideas 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The series, for San Antonio's Artpace, toyed with minimalist precepts as much as questions of race and power. Daniel Joseph Martinez offers a front-row seat to a famous artistic murder -- starring himself 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Chick-fil-A first toyed with the modified menu test at select restaurants in Arizona and Charlotte, N.C. in a trial that began Jan. 13, according to a news release. Chick-fil-A reportedly removing decaf coffee, bagels from menu 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z In his novel “Submission,” Houellebecq mischievously toys with the idea that such a return could be accomplished by a mass conversion to Islam. A French Novelist Imagined Sexual Dystopia. Now It’s Arrived. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Fado now toys with fusions and hybrids, mingling with New Age music, African rhythms, rock and electronics. Music Review: Caman? Sings Fado at BAM in Next Wave Festival - Review 2011-12-04T23:16:02Z They toyed with dance beats, keyboard chords and bass lines — thickening the song and then thinning it again. The Inside History of ‘Where Are Ü Now’ 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z "Those who toy with these values should be taught a lesson within the premises of law," he said, according to The Hurriyet Daily News. ArtsBeat: Steamy Turkish TV Drama Draws Fire From Prime Minister 2012-11-30T16:48:42Z His ballets all felt like mock ballets: conceptual games in which he toyed with the academic vocabulary. Dance Review: William Forsythe?s ?I don?t believe in outer space? - Review 2011-10-27T22:16:44Z The record is a stark turn from its predecessor, “¿Which Side Are You On?,” which toyed with Brazilian tropicalia and experimental jazz. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Nov. 14-20 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z It toys with arcane ideas across seven movements, and with a summarizing “Epilogue” it’s more unified than any of Bach’s suites. Jennifer Koh’s Bach and Beyond Part III for Violin 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z If you heard that an R-rated comedy was called “Bad Moms,” you might be tempted to assume it’s one of those films that toy with established pillars of goodness like “Bad Santa” and “Bad Teacher.” What Would Mrs. Brady Do? ‘Bad Moms’ Takes on Modern Motherhood 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Ask the survivors of “Lost’s” Oceanic Airlines Flight 815, whose fates were toyed with for six seasons by creators who prized tangent over conclusion and left them in the afterworld. Perspective | ‘Twin Peaks’ made us weird. Was that a good thing or a bad thing? 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z The piece toys with the custom of an orchestra tuning up, and, true to the Varèse style, is full of heady chaos and bursts of din, including the regular howling of a siren. In Paris, a Music Hall Built for Unity Offers a Stirring First Act 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Or they stop to toy with the rough industrial edges of the theater, turning away from a more direct engagement with each other. Dance Review: Marking Time in Spirals, Pretzeling Through Space 2010-12-16T23:01:20Z As in his previous work “Tambo & Bones,” Harris toys with stereotypes about Blackness in order to turn them inside out, pointing to the history, circumstances and motivations behind ways of thinking and behavior. Review: In ‘Exception to the Rule,’ Detention Is Sinister 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z He doesn’t stop at getting inside the heads of his viewers; he wants to affect their bodies and toy with their nervous systems. Film: Turn on, Tune in to a Trippy Afterlife 2010-09-19T04:36:00Z While many of Mr. Cunningham’s photos seem to transcend time, others toy with it. Art Review: Bill Cunningham’s ‘Facades’: The Book as Exhibition 2014-03-13T20:25:16Z But it also toyed with established ideas about the natural progression of a career in the art world. Bert Rodriguez is turning his apartment into a museum — with him in it 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z It's like trying to find the truth by surveying YouTube, and it toys with a player's own assumptions and biases. Head games in 'Her Story' will make you feel almost like a true detective 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z Maybe just to toy with Libby a little bit longer? 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Jumping Into an Ice Cold Lake 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z This production, which toys with pace, occasionally speeding up line readings in the spirit of the Marx Brothers, stars longtime members of the company, including Scott Shepherd and Susie Sokol. Elevator Repair Service Tackles Shakespeare’s Problem Play 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z It was only five years ago, but five years ago was a lifetime, a feeling that Rae and Penny toy with throughout the conclusion. "Insecure" no more: The HBO comedy departs with satisfying confidence 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z Most students, however, were forced to toy with malevolent spirits on their own time. 11 infamous '90s school bans 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z During his endless hours in the editing room, he toyed with the music track as he did with the visual component, seeking his characteristic blend of atmosphere and distancing. Orson Welles, Musician 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Lee also toys with an essential quality of pillows — their softness — by filling them with hard objects or casting them in bronze as glossy as the shiniest fabric she uses. Review | In the galleries: This art will really speak to you 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z The videos also toy with the iconic “LV” logo. Up Next : Quentin Jones, Mixed-Media Artist and Filmmaker for the Fashion World, Discusses Her Trade 2014-02-07T23:02:21Z He toys with guitar tones and production strategies; he takes more liberties with his vocals; he leaves things less glossy. The Year in Yesteryear: Standout Music Books and Boxed Sets 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z In replacing it, I toyed with planting a little hedge of rue, which is an undervalued decorative herb, but I settled instead on rosemary. After the harsh winter, a spring undertaking Lucier is a composer who toys with slight impurities in acoustic space. Charles Curtis plays Alvin Lucier and Eliane Radique 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z They also featured the slight play on masculine styles that Lemaire likes to toy with periodically: A cotton wool cravate appeared on most of the looks as a man's tie, tucked into a hoop. Givenchy, Hermes and Celine get elegant 2012-10-01T02:46:03Z Named for a childhood game, this three-year-old restaurant toys with food for sophisticated grown-ups. 5 Places to Go in Bogotá 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Impolitic truth telling is more broadly amusing, and plenty of movies have toyed with the comedy of characters who can’t stop telling the truth, notably “Liar, Liar” and “The Invention of Lying.” Television Review: Laura Linney in Showtime?s Cancer Comedy 2010-08-15T22:05:00Z Breckenridge Ski Resort toyed with the idea of reopening, but owner Vail Resorts announced Thursday it would instead focus on getting its summer operations going in late June or early July. Colorado ski resort Arapahoe Basin reopens this week after coronavirus hiatus 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z From time to time Charles and Mark also toy with the idea of leaving. Next Stop: Near Salvador, Brazil, a Paradisiacal Place to Disconnect 2011-03-11T19:59:19Z The relationship between the adult and the child is part of the reading experience; in many cases, it is echoed and toyed with inside the books themselves. Exhibition Review: Public Library’s ‘ABC of It’ Looks at Children’s Books 2013-06-20T22:19:09Z It toyed with that storyline in season one—recall the suicide of the captive terror suspect—but it didn’t end up figuring as significantly in the season’s story as you might think. Homeland Watch: One of Us 2012-11-26T13:00:52Z Casting back to when I had toyed with the idea of joining a dating agency, I had been warned that I would need to be willing to meet men up to 10 years my senior. My glass was barely clinked before my online date asked: ‘Guess my age?’ 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z No other show this year had such a nimble mastery of tone or such a surprising and enchanting ability to toy with form. The Memorable TV Episodes of 2016 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z In addition to traditional clothing design, the exhibition includes displays of work by contemporary Pakistani designers, who toy with and reimagine the country’s traditions in their works. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Both pieces toy with time, telling us what will happen later, then showing us the here and now. Theater Review: ‘Lovers’ by Brian Friel at Beckett Theater 2012-09-30T21:01:17Z His 2006 solo debut album, “Shine Through,” toyed with hip-hop hybrids, Latin rhythms and bilingual lyrics — his parents are Panamanian — but he set those experiments aside. New Music: Albums From Aloe Blacc, Sara Evans and Ambrose Akinmusire 2014-03-10T20:57:47Z A plush toy with a digital brain, she’ll visit the Children’s Museum of the Arts along with her creator, Lance Weiler, and his son, Dylan. Spare Times for Children for May 29-June 4 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z His use of the slur echoed the callous and unthinking way in which many white Americans toy with the signifiers of Black culture with no sense of their history. The Morgan Wallen Conundrum 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z According to the complaint, some EvanTubeHD videos consist of an "off-camera adult voice engaging the charming youngster as he reviews toys with an infectious mix of enthusiasm and wonder." YouTube Kids app exposes children to too many ads, some groups say 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z But you can, of course, toy with tradition. 6 tips for the perfect French onion soup 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z Then there are productions that toy with what we think we know about the past. Stefan Herheim’s Glittering Collisions Have Changed Opera 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Still, Ms. Marling toys with aspects of seduction in the song’s arrangement, which leans heavy on a sinuous electric bass, and in the video, which she directed herself. The Playlist: Burial and Laura Marling Slip Deeper Into the Void 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Women need not apply — Maya wants to play with power and toy with the young male poets who offer themselves as her potential successors. Review: Lena Olin Is Fierce as a Suicidal Poet in ‘Maya Dardel’ 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z But Morris’s movie is a cat-and-mouse game, and Rumsfeld is the cat, virtually licking his chops as he toys with, and then devours, another rival. Postcards from Venice, Previews of Toronto 2013-09-06T15:46:17Z Like a Pop artist he toys with clichés of popular psychedelia, implying that its transcendence fantasy is as much an artifact of contemporary society as, say, fantasy football. Art Review: Picturing a Mind-Blowing World Made of Drugs 2010-10-07T21:19:00Z To make her face more like Callas’s, she toyed with the idea of a prosthetic nose. A Tough Mama Tries to Find Her Inner Diva 2011-06-23T23:07:53Z They toyed with audio, and plugged in 9-volt batteries to make the creations come alive. Gallery Hopes to Sell Kanye West’s ‘Famous’ Sculpture for $4 Million 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z There is also the Italian designer Silvia Picari, who makes sculptural wooden sex toys with various stimulating rings, bumps and balls carved into them – they look a bit like tasteful wooden toys. ‘Environmentalists are horny right now’: how to make your sex life more eco-friendly 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Serialization is novel in musical presentations these days, and Trinity’s program synopsis toys with the cliffhanger aspect, as in, say, a radio drama from the 1940s or ’50s: After Five Years of Bach, Trinity Church Takes On Handel 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z Tiramisu I condemned as the black forest gateau of the 90s, yet at the same time toyed with it; now that the age has passed, I make it without apology. Nigella Lawson: my life in food 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z The winner told Michigan Lottery that he toyed with the idea of "trying a new set of numbers" several times throughout his life but ultimately decided to keep playing the same set. Michigan man wins $18M lotto jackpot on numbers he's played for 30 years 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z I toyed with it a lot as I was writing the script. James Gunn Always Knew How ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ Would End 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z The author has done bad in changing things to his liking, and he must never be allowed to toy with fate again. 'Once Upon a Time': Meet Maleficent's child, Lily -- all grown up 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z You're Paul McCartney; you can perform the songs as you think best and toy with the arrangements when so inspired. Review: Paul McCartney rebounds at United Center 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z You remember Trolls — not the rude lurkers online writing nasty remarks, but those little toys with round tummies, beatific expressions and abundant hair shooting upward. Review: The ‘Trolls’ Embark on a High-Haired Rescue Mission 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Hannah Gadsby had also toyed with the surprise of setting up tension without relieving it in the surprise hit “Nanette,” to make a point about how always going for the joke can stunt your growth. That’s the Funny Thing About Grief 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Kandinsky, whose paintings Ms. Gurnee’s bring to mind, toyed with such magical thinking. Art in Review: Sue Gurnee: ?The Fulgent Cadences? 2010-03-19T08:09:00Z It's always a pleasure seeing him toy with his pop-star image. 'Bad Teacher': Cameron Diaz comedy gets an average grade 2011-06-23T03:01:55Z In 2000, Trump toyed with the idea of a presidential bid. What happened to ‘America’s Mayor’? How Rudy Giuliani became Trump’s attack dog. 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z There is human complexity to this transdimensional being that likes to toy with its prey, a sense that there is a personality with issues beneath the one-liners and horror villain tropes. "It Chapter Two": Flawed but effective follow-up to 2017's horror hit 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Both toy with barely audible noises, such as rubbing or scraping instruments with foreign objects, that may or may not blossom into full-fledged lush tonal sonorities. International music fest compares Latin, Asian sounds with Tambuco and Toshio Hosokawa 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Apple has toyed with percussion-centered arrangements before, in songs like “Daredevil” from “The Idler Wheel…,” but on “Fetch the Bolt Cutters,” she commits. Fiona Apple Is Back and Unbound: Let’s Discuss 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Even out of character, he tugs on his sleeves and toys with a jacket zipper. Ben Platt, From ‘Pitch Perfect’ to an Anxious Teen on Stage 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z British soul singer Eska relentlessly toyed with Odyssey's Inside Out, while VV Brown drained the life out of the Flaming Lips' Do You Realise?? Baaba Maal: In Praise of the Female Voice ? review 2011-03-14T18:10:57Z A woman in a red dress idly toys with the keys on a piano while her male companion reads. Review | This Edward Hopper exhibition on hotels is worth an extended stay 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z He toyed with the symbolic concept in “Memento,” but always wanted to make it more concrete. What’s bigger than an event film? ‘Tenet’ might just be 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Seattle Art Museum brings together three black painters whose works have toyed with, subverted and commented on art history. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for March 2018 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Debussy toyed with the piece for seven more years, but it remained unperformed at his death, just over 100 years ago. Review: Odd, Delightful Juxtapositions at the Philharmonic 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z The promotion offers children the option of choosing one of 10 paperback nonfiction books, or one of 16 e-books in lieu of a toy with their meal. Happy Meals with books? Australian parents group isn't loving it 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Even so, Mr. Banyai never let his imagination be constrained by the exigencies of deadline journalism, as evidenced by his four children’s books, which often employed visual twists that toyed with readers’ perceptions. Istvan Banyai, Illustrator Who Mined the Surreal, Dies at 73 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z When planning my coop, I actually toyed with the idea of mounting it on wheels like this one. 10 chicken coop ideas for your feathered friends 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Since then, they have toyed with five decades of guitar rock, as Alex Turner’s lyrics detail a very British mix of self-doubt and pugnacity, sulking articulately about romance gone awry. New Music: 2 Chainz, Arctic Monkeys and Keith Urban Release New Albums 2013-09-09T22:11:48Z Wolff says Trump toyed with the idea of postponing the election, using the Floyd protests as a pretext. The media scramble at the heart of Trump Book Summer 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z “I would buy this toy with my own money because I really think it’s a great toy, and it is worth it,” wrote one tester. Kids test new toys for the holiday season On this week’s Popcast, a conversation about Drake’s evolution and production choices, the ways in which he toys with the expectations of his listeners and the dance music subcultures he’s experimenting with. Drake Hits the Nightclub 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Anything that has major importance — feeding, health and safety, money, education — is not to be toyed with. A new parent’s guide to social media 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z Will Smith The "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" actor first toyed with the idea in 2015. Alec Baldwin says he'd beat Donald Trump in 2020 "hands down" 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z He tweaked and toyed with the guitar sounds, processing multiple signals from each instrument. Making Beautiful ?Le Noise? Together 2010-09-26T22:08:00Z Some weirdos like myself may toy with engagement tradition — be it through female-led proposals or non-proposal proposals — but most of us still expect to see a man on bended knee. Why are men still proposing? 2013-05-12T01:00:00Z Zach'ry believes in reincarnation, and the novel itself toys with the idea. Guardian book club: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z In my senior year, I briefly toyed with the idea of going to law school … but I quit that, too. I Quit Yale 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to tour Singapore’s two lavish casino resorts on Friday as his home country toys with the idea of liberalizing casino gambling to boost tourism and attract investment. Japan’s Abe eyes Singapore style casino resorts to boost tourism 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z When Miss Janus toys with Mr. Brewer, the screwball sparring has tiny daggers and bits of broken glass in it. Theater Review: ‘London Wall,’ an Old Romantic Comedy Resurrected 2014-02-25T21:37:33Z Getting into the spirit of his imprisonment, Maziar toys with his captor’s ignorance of the U.S. by inventing insidious tales of New Jersey massage parlors. Review: Jon Stewart's Rosewater: Laughing Through the Torture 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z As bel canto parodies go you can hardly do better than “Pinafore,” which toys with several classic operatic plot turns. Music Review: Sailing a Saucy Ship Into Bel Canto Seas 2011-06-26T22:09:05Z “Footnote” toys with a sense of narrative distance, as Gelb’s monologues alternate between Hladik speaking in the first person and narrating the story about himself in the third person. Review: Bringing Borges to Life in ‘Footnote for the End of Time’ 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z While this refers to a scene where Miranda toys with that kink before abandoning it to her relationship insecurities, there is no better instance of an image capturing everything that's wrong with this character. "And Just Like That," Miranda ruined Che for viewers 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z Watching them in tandem illustrates how Rohmer — superficially so consistent and serene — subtly toys with structure and variation, recombining types of characters in friendships and romances that rarely develop as expected. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z If you enjoy being toyed with and misled, here’s an author eager to fool you. Review: ‘The Verdict’ Speaks in a Grisham-esque Tongue With a British Accent 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z When she sees a handsome young man, she toys with him for a while. Theater Review: ‘Fabulous Miss Marie’ Drinks and Dances at Castillo Theater 2014-05-07T21:36:15Z Shine presented him three lighting options, the president picked his favorite, and Shine then dutifully toyed with the podium position, microphone height and backdrop until he achieved what Trump felt was the perfect camera angle. ‘Working for one guy’: Bill Shine’s journey from Ailes enforcer to Trump producer 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Early on, Mr. Campbell toyed with the idea of a middle-class life. Up Close: Up Close: Scott Campbell, Tattoo Artist, Expands to Fine Art 2010-04-15T01:16:00Z Gilligan toyed with this idea before even filming the first season: Basically, Jesse is killed by a drug dealer and to get revenge, Walter shackles the drug dealer in a basement and tortures him. Vince Gilligan Reveals 5 Alternate ‘Breaking Bad’ Endings 2013-10-01T15:04:19Z He improvised with musicians in his studio, then culled snippets that might engender songs; he toyed with loops and effects; he let samples lead him to ideas. The Blessed, Cursed Life of Bon Iver 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z By the time that Andy Warhol toyed with the subject, the mountain was another commercial commodity, a jazzed-up version of the image on the plate, fan or paperweight that every tourist took home. Volcanic art 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z But there's another purpose in showing how fame toys with Emily's emotions, which Smith discussed in a recent conversation about the new season. "Dickinson" creator on Emily and fame: "The spotlight was a dangerous place for her to be" 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z "Anywhen", on display until April, uses speakers and video screens to toy with time and space as the fish float into different formations. French artist brings floating fish to London's Tate Modern 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Styles like these appeal to New Yorkers, young and not so young, who wear thick-soled shoes with truncated pants and toy with wrapping, layering and shredding — the hallmarks of fashion deconstruction. Paying Homage to Japan?s Raw Edges 2010-10-07T00:18:00Z “Ocean,” the biggest single from her album “She,” toys with folksy guitar before gliding into a peppy, delightful soul-pop refrain. Pop & Rock Listings for April 10-16 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z He would just toy with people and really not open up at all. Elijah Wood on playing the "best friend" of Ted Bundy: "He continues to endure as a fascination" 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z So much so, she toyed with the idea of making people who give parties pay. Hey, ‘Budtender’: Los Angeles’s Power Brokers of Pot Crank Up the Kook 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z For Public School, the designers Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne took street motifs often associated with men — parkas, puffers, hoodies, anoraks — and toyed with how to dress women in them. Gender Fluidity on the Runways 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Like most songs on the record, “No Idea” toys with the gap between perception and projection, the clarity and confinement that come with claiming a label. Muna’s Fresh Start 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z "We always toy with her playing different parts in every movie," Holofcener says. The Private Life of Catherine Keener 2010-04-15T15:33:00Z I don't like to toy with the affections of our fans. Development, arrested 2011-07-28T20:29:00Z In every way Storyboard P is the opposite of another soloist, Frank Ejara from Brazil, whose “Som do Movimento” toyed with changing ideas of whether movement causes music, or vice versa. Dance Review: ‘Breakin’ Convention’ Shows a New York Style’s Diversity 2013-06-17T21:38:11Z In this view, he’s also a serious artist who has preserved classic Hollywood traditions even as he has slyly toyed with them. Don’t Get What Makes Brian De Palma an Auteur? Try These Two Films 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z "Those toys with faces were banned under the premise of apostasy and idolatry. These are myths. They are not Muslims, they are distorting Islam," Taha said of Islamic State. Dolls, teddy bears return to eastern Mosul after Islamic State 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z The dedicated dancers look at their best here, and happiest, and the spatial organization of the stage toys with, and subverts, proscenium expectations in intriguing ways. Dance Review: Philadanco at the Joyce Theater 2012-10-05T23:25:20Z The band toys with its sound on new album “So It Is With Us,” experimenting with faster tempos and livelier arrangements. Your week in Seattle music: The Black Keys, B.o.B. and more 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z The ballerina also goes in drag, to toy with the old man’s wife: women are vain fools here too, just not as much. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Bright Stream’ at the Met 2012-05-30T21:28:34Z The final “Hornpipe” was impetuous and fun, as Mr. Dicterow toyed with the tempo just enough to show who was in charge. Music Review: Farewells Begin for New York Philharmonic’s Glenn Dicterow 2014-01-20T22:26:57Z Though it’s vague enough to allow the listener to see themselves in it, “Rare” often toys with tabloid perceptions of Gomez’s relationships. Review | Selena Gomez gives as much of herself as she can on ‘Rare’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z On Thursday the festival — presented by the New Victory, the French Institute Alliance Française, Institut Français and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy — opened another production that toys with gravity: “Fragile.” Spare Times for Children for April 26-May 2 2013-04-25T22:27:06Z I first toyed with the basic notion while I was working on my story collection “A Night at the Movies,” exploring B-movies and comic books for ideas. This Week in Fiction: Robert Coover on How Real Events Can Color Fiction 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z "That was something Jane toyed with when we shot the movie, to end it there," said the US actor. Jane Campion wanted a bleaker ending for The Piano 2013-07-08T14:09:08Z Another new book toys with the very new and very, very old. Is Life Fair? Four Picture Books Say No 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Dolce & Gabbana’s more tailored version toys with the notion of forbidden or rejected desire. Review | ‘Heavenly Bodies’ at the Met shows just how much fashion and Catholicism have in common 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z It’s a novel fizzing with ideas, one that toys with timelines and intertextuality. A Novel That Riffs on Sex Dolls, Mary Shelley and Brexit 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Ms. Spears’s albums in the 2000s, like “Blackout” and “Femme Fatale,” showed that she and her advisers know something about the dynamics of celebrity and media, as she toyed with provocation and selective revelation. In ‘Glory,’ Britney Spears Promises Pleasure, but Offers Nothing Personal 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Half-a-dozen artists also toy with a bed theme in "The Beds," which invites attendees to "lounge, interact ... and explore some erotic tension." Seattle Erotic Art Festival: tough, tender, witty, kitschy, for adults only 2010-04-29T20:19:00Z This is one more show in which the troupe toys with its audience, though here it displays better than usual sportsmanship. Review: ‘Are We Not Drawn Onward to New Era’ Stages a Disaster in Reverse 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z But after playing a disappointingly shallow role in the 2004 film The Girl Next Door, Dano had toyed with the idea of giving up on acting altogether and pursuing a career in music instead. Paul Dano: a resolutely hexagonal peg in the square hole of showbusiness 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z Again, Mr. Blatty toys with the audience’s perception of what is real, when the gruff, growling voice of the Devil comes out of the little girl’s mouth. The Comedic Side of William Peter Blatty, the Author of ‘The Exorcist’ 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z They helped Williams decisively break free of punk-pop, as she toyed with electronics, disco beats, glossy pop, jazzy intricacies and indie-rock introspection. Hayley Williams, All Alone With Her Memories 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z They toyed with the idea of finding a female friend to have their baby, but most of them were past prime childbearing age, they said, and anyway, it seemed emotionally fraught. In New York, a Push for Compensated Surrogacy 2014-02-19T21:59:45Z Epps has toyed with the script, excising, for example, the judge’s instructions to the jury that traditionally begin the play, and at heated moments, putting some epithets on actors’ lips. Review | Government shutdown aside, Ford’s Theatre stays open and percolates with a multiethnic ‘Twelve Angry Men’ 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z The center of this production, which toys with moral and theatrical conventions, is Piper, writes Charles McNulty, as an “invigorating incarnation of an eager-to-please phone.” Essential Arts & Culture: Rage and grief at the Taper, art of color and movement, Obama's library 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z My brain toys with me, tells me it’s insoluble. You Have to Let Go to Move On 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z She toyed with a gold karaoke microphone and then slipped inside a door beneath the stairs. Tracey Ullman Stocks Up on Lingerie Before a Date With Meryl Streep 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Half a can of baked beans equals one portion of vegetables, and for one beautiful moment I toy with the idea of getting back on track by gorging myself on a multipack. The 10-a-day diet tested: 'I feel like a sentient composter' 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z In one of the book’s darker stories, a teenage girl coldly toys with a widow, cheerily insisting the woman’s dead husband is alive. New Short Fiction, Including a National Book Foundation Honoree 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z The music toys with nostalgia, with the reassuring dependability of structure and instrumental arrangements. Review: Angel Olsen’s ‘My Woman’ Goes Fearlessly Retro 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z But Breaking Bad is not the only series that toyed with a different ending. From Lost to Breaking Bad: how your favourite TV shows almost ended 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z Judge continues to toy with the prospects of resurrecting some of his most beloved properties. HBO wants more seasons of "Silicon Valley," but Mike Judge might be ready to end it 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z What about a future involving “smart” toys with the machine-learning capability to actually converse with, or teach, children according to their individual quirks? Instagram, Facebook, and the Perils of “Sharenting” 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Finn writes pop songs that expertly stretch the possibilities of verse-chorus-bridge; they use convoluted chord progressions, toy with meter and are full of twists and turns, even as the choruses stay catchy. Music Review: Neil Finn Plays a Career-Spanning Set at Town Hall 2014-04-09T21:28:16Z The Mexican artist Gabriel Kuri toys with notions of value, labor and consumer culture in his loom-woven image of a supermarket receipt. Latin American Artists Reinvent Their Histories 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z The title itself toys with such a transformation, the word feeld being a marriage, perhaps, of feel, felt and field. Political Poetry Is Hot Again. The Poet Laureate Explores Why, and How. 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z In recent years, a few mainstream game makers have toyed with stress-killing gadgets. Chopra hopes to connect minds, bodies with 'Leela' 2011-07-19T08:01:04Z Like many struggling actors, in her early 20s Constance Wu waited tables and toyed with the idea of getting a proper job. ‘I don’t regret being messy and imperfect’ – Constance Wu on Crazy Rich Asians, Twitter storms and acting with J-Lo 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z On “Ants From Up There,” he usually turns to melody instead, while the band toys with chamber-pop and more pastoral sounds. Black Country, New Road’s Perilous Triumph 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z The old BookExpo team “toyed with the public component in a very controlled way,” said Lance Fensterman, global vice president for ReedPOP, explaining how this year’s event will differ from past ones. BookExpo Keeps It Breezy 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Even if Alex didn’t know that, she would surely absorb the lesson from that incident that this is a man who toys with people. It's tough to explain what makes the aggravating "Morning Show" mess appealing 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z In many ways, the musical toys with several possible expectations theatergoers might have coming into the show. For Two Broadway Stars, a Love Story Blossoms in a Honky-Tonk Bar 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Time’s Arrow Watch manufacturers are not the only companies that have toyed with the interaction of time and illusion in commercial advertising. The illusions of advertising 2013-05-16T21:35:00Z She even toyed with the idea of destroying her journals before she died, thankfully deciding against doing so. The Many Faces of Patricia Highsmith 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z The playwright toys with a number of dramatic possibilities but never finds conviction. In David Mamet's perplexing 'China Doll,' Al Pacino can only roar weakly 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Each has volunteered to be toyed with, which the audience at home is welcome to do, sure, go ahead! Are you watching "Love Island"? It's the feel-superior hit of the summer 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z “If I wanted to be a mega-something, I would not choose art,” she said, noting that she toyed with opening a Paris branch around 1980, but decided against it because of the challenging logistics. Art of the Dealer: Paula Cooper Shores Up Her Legacy 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z The story for “Diaries” comes from Oren Peli, of the “Paranormal Activity” brain trust, and like that franchise, it toys with viewers’ expectations, but without the sense of play. Movie Review: ‘Chernobyl Diaries,’ Co-Produced by Oren Peli 2012-05-25T21:37:16Z Sometimes, a single sax will toy with a staccato free-jazz motif, sometimes hooting electronic sounds shadow brusque melody. Led Bib: Bring Your Own ? review 2011-02-03T21:31:01Z But she also toyed with a broad spectrum of sounds and textures, from brittle, pointillistic funk to ultra-plush orchestrations infused with her own endlessly layered vocals. Janet Jackson’s ‘Unbreakable’ Is Right on Time 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Plus it’s an exploration of the nature and purpose of storytelling itself; our heroine, Jane, is an aspiring writer, and different episodes toy with different genres or motifs. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Jane the Virgin’ and ‘30 for 30’ 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z When Freddie Mercury wrote Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” he originally seemed to have toyed with another title, which he then scratched out. Was Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Originally ‘Mongolian Rhapsody’? 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Flowing, full-length trousers toy with expectations because mules resemble a regular shoe from the front, “but there’s the surprise in the back,” said Loris Messina, a founder of Sunnei, speaking from Milan. Can a Man Wear Mules to Work? 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Queer nightlife has long been a place where gender binary stereotypes have been challenged, subverted, ignored or otherwise toyed with, and where fashion-forward lingerie made with stretch lace, mesh and cutouts found a home. Sexy Lingerie for Men Is Here 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z If Bowie revealed his true self, it was obliquely; he toyed with our perception of him, reflecting back at us our hunger to stand out, to be something special. See TIME's Cover Commemorating the life of David Bowie 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z He conceded that making a movie that toys with did-he-or-didn’t-he questions could strike some as a little flagrant. Asking Questions Louis C.K. Doesn’t Want to Answer 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z But then, turning heads is the point, said Jamie Apostolou, who runs the men’s style blog The Standard Edition and has toyed with the look. Men In Red Pants: Stuck in Old Cultural Baggage 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z This explain why, for about a year, NBCUniversal has reportedly toyed with handing the 10 p.m. time slot back to local stations and starting "The Tonight Show" at 10:30 p.m. on both coasts. Why women really don’t get to host late-night TV 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z But it’s her songwriting talent and the soulful scrape in her voice — not to mention the clever way she toys with the presentation of gender — that distinguish her now that she’s arrived. In a year of viral country hits sung by angry men, Megan Moroney stakes out a woman's POV 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z Sometimes orcas toy with their victims, allowing them to escape before recapturing them. Orcas are killing porpoises—but not eating them. Why? 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z Posner toys with plot points and character names, but the basic storyline is the same and the essential Chekhovian angst over squandered potential and irretrievable loss is preserved. Review: Chekhov knew ‘Life Sucks.’ Aaron Posner’s Vanya redo turns it into an invigorating question 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z They also include toys with electronic parts, like dolls that speak or games with electronic timers. Electronic Waste Day Highlights “Invisible” E-Waste 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z The Fisher-Price Corn Popper, a push toy with colorful balls, has been a repeat finalist for encouraging babies who are learning to walk. These five toys are regular finalists for Hall of Fame honors. Now fans can vote one in 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z They toyed with outdoor decorations, using a cigarette lighter to set a dreamcatcher hanging on someone’s window ablaze. Israeli video compilation shows the savagery and ease of Hamas’ attack 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Countries in the European Union have toyed with the idea of legalisation, but "they are moving very slowly", Prof Armstrong said, partly due to stringent EU laws. Canadian cannabis market struggles five years after legalisation 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z Both lawmakers had previously toyed with a run for the speaker’s gavel, but opted not to. Kevin Hern running for House majority leader 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z This isn’t the first time Garvey toyed with a Senate run. Former Dodgers star and Republican Steve Garvey enters U.S. Senate race 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z Bergeron had toyed with retirement before, but he decided to return for one last run a year ago. Boston Bruins hope to finish the job this season after record-setting run ended in a playoff flop 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z As a DJ, he started to toy with the idea of not just remixing music, but remixing light. A psychedelic mixtape by Chris Holmes will christen immersive tech company Cosm's new L.A. outpost 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z Mr. McCarthy toyed with removing the Ukraine money in the bill, but decided against it. Biden: ‘We should stop electing’ House Republicans if they can’t fund the government 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z As a result, some chains have toyed with enhancing drive-thrus or strengthening connections with food delivery apps — from Chipotle growing its Carside pickup locations to Domino’s penning a new partnership with Uber Eats. Looking for a refill? McDonald’s is saying goodbye to self-serve soda in the coming years 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z The government's pointed refusal to commit to match the overall earnings figure and instead toy with a figure that discounts some one-off payments would save hundreds of millions of pounds. Triple lock: State pension could go up less than expected next year 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z Then he bought three surrounding houses and toyed with tearing down some to build his own dream house. What drove Elon Musk — onetime Democratic 'fanboy' — to troll progressive politics 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z Things get steamy, weird and dark as Fennell toys with class as she did with gender in “Promising Young Woman.” Emerald Fennell on ‘Saltburn,’ class and Barry Keoghan: Fall Movie Preview 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z Before then, even the Adobe board had toyed with killing Acrobat. Column: Farewell to John Warnock, an internet pioneer whose invention actually made the world better 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z “They toyed with the lives of millions of people, without the minimal civic sense to speak up.” Italy marks 5th anniversary of Morandi bridge collapse with demands for justice for the 43 killed 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z The government had toyed with the idea of taxing banks' record profits from higher rates but appeared to have set it aside, and Rome's muddled communication over the issue has caused alarm among international investors. Italy PM Meloni takes 'full responsibility' for bank tax 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z It’s a vault she toyed with in 2021 hoping to pull off in Tokyo. Simone Biles dazzles in her return following a two-year layoff to easily claim the U.S. Classic. 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z A month later, a married couple placed a child's toy with a "don't shoot" sign in a St Petersburg shop. Ukraine war: Russians stage plasticine protests to oppose war 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z England toy with the emotions more than most. 'We're all gutted... England's entertainment does not absolve all sins' 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Chalmers has recently toyed with a model that fuses integrated information theory and quantum mechanics. A 25-Year-Old Bet about Consciousness Has Finally Been Settled 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z In a company announcement, Zuru noted that that the recall only impacts the versions of the baby shark toys with a hard plastic fin. 7.5 million ‘Baby Shark’ bath toys recalled after multiple laceration and impalement injuries 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z The relationship has shifted more recently as the two democracies toy with deeper alignment to counter China. India’s Modi praises U.S. democracy in address to Congress 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Miss Pickle asked her audience questions after every sentence and urged them to follow good manners, such as sharing toys with friends and asking parents for permission to eat macaroni in the bathtub. Column: Would hate disrupt a drag story hour in gay-friendly Laguna Beach? 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z So it is that imaginary characters — particularly beloved ones with established stories — are toyed with in books, TV shows and movies that airlift them out of one life and into another. What if things could turn out differently? How the multiverse got into our heads and didn’t let go 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z “It’s really dehumanizing to have someone play with you that way because no one took into account these are human beings and they were toyed with,” Maynard said. DeSantis recruiters eyed Catholic church for migrant flights that bishop calls ‘reprehensible’ 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z In late 2021 when the last government toyed with the idea, it proposed a monthly cash advance of 5,000 naira to poor Nigerians to cover transport fares. Nigeria's fuel subsidy: How the new president has shocked the nation 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Bismarck had toyed with Napoleon III, ignoring French demands for territory if it came to war between Austria and Prussia. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Trump’s administration toyed with various ways to deter undocumented immigrants that year, including with a plan that was ultimately abandoned for deportation raids targeting families in 10 major cities. 5 Moments That Defined Trump’s Record on Immigration 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z In the months since Mr. Musk took over the platform, he has toyed with several new features for Twitter. Elon Musk hires a new Twitter CEO: ‘She will be starting in ~6 weeks!’ 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z The high court has been increasingly accommodating toward those with religious beliefs, but it has only toyed with the clash between same-sex couples and conservative Christians who oppose such unions. Supreme Court rulings on race, elections expected in coming weeks 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z In Stone’s case, he used their massage to explore how she toyed with men on screen and off. Bill Zehme, who elevated celebrity profiles to an art form, dies at 64 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z |
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