But if one of the playful apparitions got close to us, I pinched it. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The classic manuals, written by starchy Englishmen and rock- ribbed Yankees, try to take all the fun out of writing, grimly adjuring the writer to avoid offbeat words, figures of speech, and playful alliteration. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But Frolic was only a puppy, new to life, and had been such a spirited creature, so curious and playful. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He came over to me and gave me these two playful as hell slaps on both cheeks--which is something that can be very annoying. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

For answer, Bigwig sat up and gave Chervil a playful cuff, hard enough to roll him over. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silhouettes kiss behind curtains; playful fingers examine and caress. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

What he did was wrong, as like a joke, playful. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They were very playful and inclined to talk— to do anything but he quiet and go to sleep. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

The playful romance we had sustained in the cave has disappeared out in the open, under the hot sun, with the threat of Cato looming over us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The average age in our platoon, I’d guess, was nineteen or twenty, and as a consequence things often took on a curiously playful atmosphere, like a sporting event at some exotic reform school. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spring lambs were tall now, playful, and thick with wool. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got a bad stomach for liquor. Besides it makes me playful, intellectual but playful.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She nibbled all up his leg in playful apology. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“If you train them right, they’re protective, obedient, and playful,” Dad told me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Peeping around the door, I saw him slap her behind, playful, and she laughed again. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It was meant to be playful, but there was too much shock and hurt and silence in the room and she wasn’t blindly happy like Pa. “You see,” she scolded him. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I laughed at this playful outburst, seeing in Hamlet the lively boy he once was. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She was as hyper as I was and super flexible as a gymnast, and her playful antics during practice made me laugh. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She gives me a playful shove, and I topple over. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Mary later remembered, “I never saw him so supremely cheerful—his manner was even playful.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shiver at the memory of his expression, of those vicious, dark eyes, absent of any hint of the playful, polite, charismatic version of himself that I thought I knew. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His lips scrunched up in a playful pucker. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The neck scarf and the rope belt around his flannel trousers may have been playful Romany touches. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

His baby teeth, which usually gave him an impish, playful appearance, now made him seem unpredictable, volatile. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But despite the cramp, its great charm, magnified by Odile’s decorative sense, gave it a cheerful, if not playful, spirit. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

She took hold of her dress with one hand and bobbed a curtsey, somehow managing to make it look graceful and mocking and playful all at once. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She felt free to be herself—opinionated, witty, and playful—and, of course, the two hit it off right away. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Grey Wind nipped at her fingers, playful, and trotted back to his place by the fire. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Big Ma swatted Vonetta on the bottom, then Fern, which was as playful as Big Ma got. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

My cousins go back and forth with their jokes and playful insults. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A playful expression came on their mother's face. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Horses were like dogs, sometimes calm, sometimes playful, sometimes mean as snakes. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was hard to explain—sometimes he just found himself in a playful mood. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I invented excuses to stroll down the aisle—which Baba acknowledged with a playful smirk—and pass the Taheris’ stand. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes burned with sincerity for a protracted moment — playing havoc with the rhythm of my heart — and then turned playful. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The snow had mostly stopped, and Turner smelled the salty sea breeze taking up its place behind him—not playful but solemn and steady. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He kicked Minho in the leg—too hard to be playful. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In my head I hear Darius’s voice, playful and bright, ringing across the Hob to tease me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But then my mom stopped by the very last cage, where a playful little black-and-brown puppy caught her eye. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

One of my favorite memories is of my pet monkey, Kiki, a playful little fellow who was about as tall as my knees and followed me everywhere. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Glancing through the window at me, they gave Zach a few playful shoves. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was also not above a little playful heckling; a few choice words from the Iceman could spook his rivals into blowing their game plans. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hand-painted portrait was small, but she could tell the woman had been very beautiful, with long dark hair, dark eyes, and a playful smile that probably drove guys crazy. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Unlike our playful plot to deceive the king and my father, this device that Hamlet rehearsed had a dark and serious purpose I could not fathom. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Kind of sassy, and playful, you know? You can always tell it’s her.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

No playful straying from the words this time; this was about me! The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Shin had become chatty and playful in the office. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Now there was nothing playful beneath the sad eyes. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

After all, who would see her, a playful woman who lived in a rock? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And yet you fired the Polish woman I hired before her first day was over,” he said, his chiding tone playful and indulgent. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Her voice rang, playful yet deeper than he would have expected. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Fugees were in a playful mood, laughing and joking with one another, trying, it seemed, not to think too much about soccer. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

And so she did, complimenting Esther and joking with Esther, but always in that manner that was both playful and patronizing, and sometimes giving Esther things, an old handbag, an old watch. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I watched them whirl past my window— don’t take this seriously, the playful way they fell seemed to imply, this little show, this harmless trick. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the Bomb only starts laughing, and the Roach gives her a playful shove. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He identifies them for me with a pointed finger: Lakshmi; Shakti, the mother goddess, in the form of Parvati; and Krishna, this time as a playful baby crawling on all fours. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their different treads, as if even as spirits they retained their personalities, Patria’s sure and measured step, Minerva’s quicksilver impatience, Mate’s playful little skip. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then slyly, the fife music slid into a playful tune, poking, plucking at their brittle senses. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed entranced by the music, a little frenzied piano piece with this mesmerizing quality, sort of quick passages and then teasing lilting ones before it returned to the quick playful parts. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dejection that lined Javier’s face disappeared, and it was replaced with a playful grin. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Soon the pointed shoots of the playful daffadowndillies will break the frozen ground. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

His face had lately adopted an expression of playful contentiousness. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

That was easier said than done; we were often reprimanded for trying to sneak in a whisper or a playful nudge when we were supposed to be standing like statues. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The first few times the race car went around the circle the questions were playful. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

If mathematics education communicated this playful aspect of the subject, formally at the elementary, secondary, or college level or informally via popular books, I don’t think innumeracy would be as widespread as it is. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was very intelligent, he was very playful. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cool evening air was filled with playful screams and laughter. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Her smile was playful, like a young girl’s. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

His playful look and gangly manner reminded me of Miguelito, my friend in elementary school. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I present to you this magnificent bracelet of thread,” he said in a playful tone as he bowed. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She had dark playful eyes and a brilliant smile. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It’s Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“So do you think we’re a bunch of superstitious natives or what?” he asked in a playful tone, but with a hint of worry. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I see you want to,” Laila said, irritated by this circuitous, playful accusation. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her white hair is pulled back behind her head, her dark eyes are looking to the side a little, and she has this playful smile. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Ishtar's expression changed, going from her usual playful, slightly not-too-serious to deep and thoughtful. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“You with an old father, and you with pleasant and playful ways?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Richard’s temperament made it easier—he was a happy kid, always dancing and singing, playful and silly. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

His girls were playful, wistful, always dancing across the house, jumping from bed to bed, singing with feigned vibrato, swooning. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

An awkwardness had sprung up after those few months, where before there would have been playful laughter and in-depth conversation and harmless bickering between us. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He turns to face me, his smile turning playful. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe her parents picked that one to send because they wanted to convey her playful personality. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Comedian, she declared and gave me a playful swat on my shoulder. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the game she had planned seemed crude, not sweet and playful as she’d imagined it. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s all playful teasing, especially since we are under Rod’s and Mike’s protection, but it gets kind of annoying nonetheless. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too often the engagement with violence seemed playful. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a playful manner, the way grandmothers do with babies, he was sucking the fingers of one of the women, whose laughter filled a tiny place over, his head. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s awesome,” I tell her, and give her a playful shove. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

It is a serious ghost, not at all playful. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I point out that Tiny Cooper had about 11,542 girlfriends freshman year, and then Tiny punches me in the arm in a way that he thinks is playful but actually causes permanent nerve damage. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

And when he gives my ear a playful nip. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

They are the most playful animals in the sea. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her light brown skin is smooth, her eyes still young and playful, oblivious to the tumor growing inside her—a tumor that would leave her five children motherless and change the future of medicine. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She smiled, and I swear it wasn’t cute, it wasn’t pretty, it wasn’t playful, it wasn’t anything other than brave, and that smile bobbed like a buoy in the pit of me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was no adult among them, except, some distance away, in front of a cage filled with playful spider monkeys, a tall wiry white man with silver-rimmed glasses stood bemused. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way I was feeling toward her, I couldn’t even smile at her playful mood. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine Papa as a child, carefree and playful. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then the smile-eyes, the turn of the head—all so welcoming, light and playful. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Are we talking a playful wrestle and gummy nips? A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel elbowed him, but her smile was playful. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It’s especially cruel to pen up young pigs, for they are very playful and love to run and chase each other. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you ever ever let me catch you getting tattooed,” she said with playful severity. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A playful fall, or a nick in his skin—even a bumpy horse ride—could precipitate disaster. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The way he talked to them, with his head ducked low and the words coming out in a sweet, playful cadence, suggested a certain self-recognition of his aura. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The dolphin, one of its deep-down meanings is playing, sort of like being playful,” she explained. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He gave my braid a little playful tug. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“A kitten, a nice little, sleek playful kitten, that I can play with, and teach, and feed—and feed—and feed!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Some say there was a faint grin on his face, kind of playful, as though the Knot wasn’t his enemy at all, but an old pal just playing a little trick on him. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indian parents, by contrast, regarded the years before puberty as a time of playful development, and kept their offspring close by until marriage. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Really? Is that all?” he said, his eyes playful, lingering on mine. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Hendrix snickered and gave Pa a playful tap. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Gone was the affable smile, the playful look in his eyes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

So did his teachers at the seminary, who deemed him too playful and impatient with pomp and procedure; they delayed his ordination. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The husband, whom I’ll call Bill, had an endearingly playful manner. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I thought it would mean “spirited,” but in Italian it means “humorous or playful.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

In her playful voice she added, “You complained that your foot hurt, Papa. You never said a stranger was coming.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He was looking at me in a simultaneously serious and playful way. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Brinker, Chet and I managed to be in the same group, but the playful atmosphere of the apple orchard was gone. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked up at me suddenly, only moving her eyes, and repeated in a grimly playful manner,— Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sinjin wagged a playful finger as he took a solid step back. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

In university, when they finally stopped simulating, she began to call him Ceiling, in a playful way, in a suggestive way—but when they fought or when she retreated into moodiness, she called him Obinze. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Meredith, who’d been raised in St. Louis, was sharp and knowledgeable about different designers and had a playful sense of color and texture. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Mummy, she came to greet you, not to translate her name,” Obinze said, with a playful exasperation. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Simmon nodded wisely then looked up with a playful glint in his eye. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A playful gust of wind danced it over the Hudson River, and up Forty-second Street, and whisked it down the subway entrance. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mike tried to joke with him as he always had, but Billy Winchell didn’t have time for playful banter. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Simple melodies are passed back and forth between the violins in playful repetition, rather like the push and pull of a pendulum. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The atmosphere was so playful and lively that it was hard for us kids to understand why everyone was actually there. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Everybody else learned it later, when Clara died and the house lost its flowers, its nomadic friends, and its playful spirits and entered into an era of decline. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I'm not joking. That's what he said,” she said, sounding bored, not playful. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And yet he was not stiff at all but playful, even comedic. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The menu was inventive and playful and definitely not cheap. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Accordingly, with a mixture of the serious and the playful, which she hoped would best suit his half and half state, she replied, Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

I had a feeling it wouldn’t be all smiles and playful arm punches later on when she got me alone and let loose. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He came over to my bed and started leaning over me and taking these playful as hell socks at my shoulder. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Her tone had gone from playful to serious. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Mariam was not looking at him, but she could hear something slyly playful in these questions, like a needling. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I can’t tell through the mask, but you remind me of a lady I admired. She had the most playful spirit I ever knew.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, nonsense,” his grandma said, giving him two playful slaps on each cheek that actually hurt quite a lot. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Which is his playful way of asking me to pour my heart out. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He has thick brown hair so light that it’s almost blond, and his eyes are a playful blue, the same color as the virtual lagoon below him. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Its inspiration was not traditional libraries or staid scholarly sites but the International Spy Museum in Washington and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, playful places dedicated to entertainment and whimsy. A museum honoring American writers opens in Chicago. But where are the books? 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

Such songs as “How Dare You Want More,” with its playful guitar-saxophone duel, actually seem meant more for live performance than digital streaming. Indie-pop impresario Jack Antonoff and his band Bleachers wow the crowd at a sold-out Anthem 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z

Picture after picture plots Boyd's ascendance, wide-eyed and playful, as she transformed from working as a shampoo girl at Elizabeth Arden's salon to assuming her place as the UK's latest star. The playful beauty — and overarching sadness — in Pattie Boyd's life in pictures 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z

But that’s O.K. too: it adds to the film’s playful sense that everything, including star quality, is a con. In 'Focus,' Will Smith Does His Best Cary Grant Impression 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

When you talk about modern American magic, it’s not supernatural, it’s the playful study of epistemology. Cal Ripken’s favorite baseball movie, and 24 others on the best film about their profession 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

Each poem is differently playful, designed, inventive, compelling. Pluto by Glyn Maxwell – review 2013-04-20T11:01:01Z

He also began making what he calls “lifestyle videos” — sometimes playful, sometimes earnest — with Evaluna Montaner. Camilo’s Hemisphere-Spanning Pop 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

This is capable, playful portraiture, at ease with the comedy of desire even as its tragic outcome looms. Sex in the Mirror 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

Andy Christian, Sr., a lean, playful superstar in the mines, dominates the screen as he communes with the continuous miner machine, a 50-ton behemoth that churns out 10 tons of coal per minute. Virginia Heffernan: Mining Reality 2011-04-04T02:01:13Z

On the first anniversary of publication, her agents sent her a playful but worried letter, pretending to be the book itself: To shill a ‘Mockingbird’ 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

She described Ms. Salamon’s interpretation as “whimsical, playful, in the way I remember Cage delivering his lectures.” Dance Review: Eszter Salamon Dances at MoMA 2014-01-22T18:56:55Z

Mr. Dargel’s earliest New York songs, like “Accutane” and “Little Blue Pill,” sound like quirky, kinetic indie pop, with rubbery keyboards, chittering drum machines and darkly playful lyrics about physical infirmities. A Voice Where Romance and Dysfunction Meet 2011-04-29T18:00:32Z

Yet its bombastic tone once again fitted the film's playful anti-Disney sensibility. "Shrek" at 20: celebrating the film’s unique brand of animated anarchy and sardonic irreverence 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z

Much of the appeal of the beauty boy lies in his embrace of makeup’s playful artifice. Those Lips! Those Eyes! That Stubble! The Transformative Power of Men in Makeup 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

Including such artists, however, does help capture the general spirit of playful novelty that inspired all kinds of artists in the early ’60s. Art Review: Before the Rebellion, Playful Pop Art Novelty 2010-10-14T21:54:00Z

For the youngest operagoers, there are brilliant and mythical creatures, playful and humorous action, “magical” entrances and exits, and spectacularly colorful costumes along with the constantly changing music. A priest, a prince and a bird-catcher walk into an opera: ‘Magic Flute’ returns to Seattle 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

On stage, they are entirely present, playful with and supportive of each other, demonstrably admiring and affectionate, delighted for a bandmate when he plays an especially incendiary riff. Communing with the Dead: I followed the Grateful Dead to escape and ended up finding home 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

A darkly playful historical novel about a ragtag acting troupe that sets out to assassinate Stalin. Notable fiction in 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

The central pas de deux, with its low, sustained lifts, is a particular marvel, as are the bounding, playful dances for the trio who open the work, and the geometric kaleidoscopic motion of the ensemble. Ratmansky’s ‘Concerto’ Shines in Mariinsky Triple Bill in London 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

The form known as the “bulería,” for example, is fast and playful. Dance Review: ‘La Curva,’ Israel Galván’s Absurdist Yet Serious Act 2014-03-14T21:30:09Z

That's not to say this performance lecture about capitalism and its constraints isn't playful – it culminates in a tongue-in-cheek suggestion that eBay could help solve the arts funding crisis. The great comedy ambush 2013-01-09T19:00:02Z

For such an esteemed intellectual, Angelou was also unafraid to show her more playful side, appearing several times on "Sesame Street" over the years, singing with Elmo and introducing the letter "N" with Baby Natasha. Maya Angelou dies: Writer's TV legacy, from 'Roots' to 'Super Soul' 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Murakami is far too playful and allusive an artist to be restricted by a banal criterion like that one. Books of The Times: ?1Q84? by Haruki Murakami - Review 2011-11-09T19:28:08Z

The firm’s work is cerebral and playful at the same time, its clean lines combined with a palette of bright, often primary colors. Joining eastward march, Berggruen Institute plans second location near MacArthur Park 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

It begins as something of a battle and becomes more playful over time — but also more vulnerable as the dancers continue their conversation through falling and catching, support and control — tenets of modern dance. Twyla Tharp: ‘Each One of the Dances Is My Hope for a Perfect World’ 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

Instead of taking place in lush European gardens, his playful gatherings are in a diner on Main Street. Rockwell Paintings at the Smithsonian American Art Museum 2010-07-01T16:28:00Z

In every case, Balth strikes a fine balance between the playful and sublime. 'Videowatercolors' play with time and space 2011-11-02T21:05:05Z

The rational-creative child, the playful, unruly child — these were eclipsed by the healthy child, who would be more amenable to a new era of conformity in the 1950s. ‘Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000’ at MoMA 2012-07-26T16:28:17Z

On a stay here, my family’s moods are dictated by the lake, by turns serene, moody, playful, stormy. Refuge and Renewal on Lake George 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Dorman's piece is a playful, acrobatic concert showpiece, not a place to find grit. Claudio Abbado at the Lucerne festival; BBC Prom 44 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z

Trailed by flowing tresses and conspiratorial ladies in attendance, Best’s Cleopatra is a woman of playful, witty spirit: it is her brain that stamps this queen of the Nile as irresistible. In London, stages are set for pleasure

Even an ostensibly playful piece like Mahler’s “Frühlingsmorgen” was infected with darkness: why won’t the song’s lazybones get up, as the singer keeps instructing him? Music Review: Bernarda Fink at Alice Tully Hall 2012-11-18T22:23:06Z

In duets and trios, rough partnering suddenly turned playful or tender. Dance Review: Kendra Portier and Elke Luyten at Dance New Amsterdam 2012-12-04T20:20:07Z

We see her sweet and playful nature, as when she convinces Slim to ride a horse for the first time. What ‘Queen & Slim’ Gets Right About Black Women 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

This playful account conjures up the era before air travel was within reach for many American families, and explores how the Interstate transformed people’s relationship to the country. New in Paperback: ‘Bruce Lee,’ ‘Fruit of the Drunken Tree’ 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

The project is playful, but its themes are dire. Bloom and doom: Pokemon Go-like art project explores climate change 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

The museum takes a thoughtful, yet playful approach. Museum of the American Revolution set to open in Philadelphia 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

The stylistically diverse sketches range from realistic to playful and indicate a familiarity with both Old Masters and the New Yorker. In the galleries: Unfinished works at Target Gallery 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Ms. Gray and Mr. Efron’s scenes together — sometimes playful, sometimes awkward, sometimes painful — provide a few moments when “The Paperboy” feels anchored in, and curious about, an actual social reality. Movie Review: ‘The Paperboy,’ by Lee Daniels, Stars Nicole Kidman 2012-10-04T12:00:00Z

One rarely sees posed the question of whether her writings have meaning beyond the suggestive allure of their incomprehensibility or their playful associative quality. A witch hunt or a quest for justice: An insider’s perspective on disgraced academic Avital Ronell 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

Some of the songs, such as "It's Not Your Fault," are playful and catchy; others, such as "Heart Love Still," are slower and thoughtful. Land of Pines ? new, danceable indie rock group 2011-05-27T23:05:02Z

Suddenly, Mr. Bittar’s playful work was embraced by the fashion elite. Up Close: Alexis Bittar?s New Designs Leave Lucite Behind 2012-02-21T18:02:41Z

Moving forward, they sought a similar design strategy, “starting with a form that’s quite graphic and playful.” New Ways to Take a Seat at Milan Design Week 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z

"The melody itself is almost like a chitter-chatter, playful laughter kind of thing," he said. Why "Yakety Sax" makes anything funny and has morphed into the soundtrack of political failure 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

A snap of Sarah and Michael shows them smiling alongside a tall snowman they had created: an image of playful togetherness. Sarah Polley: 'Stories are our way of coping, of creating shape out of mess' 2013-06-22T23:05:32Z

SV: 28, that there's something both pristine and playful in the way these gifted musicians deliver the goods. Icicle Creek Piano Trio gives free CD-release concert at Town Hall 2011-03-03T20:37:03Z

She is also playful, musing "it feels good to be bad," to a backing track of rock guitar. Who was Catherine de’ Medici? "The Serpent Queen" gives us a clever, powerful and dangerous woman 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rushdie, for all his full-throatedness, “never wanted to be a symbol,” Mr. Kunzru said, citing “the horrible irony of this inventive, playful writer” being defined for many by “this dreadful, somber threat.” The Stabbing of Salman Rushdie Renews Free Speech Debates 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

By employing a playful attitude and an occasional rock ’n’ roll beat “The Wonder” is a lively two and a half hours. Theater Review | 'The Wonder': Random Acts of Comedy, Women Only 2010-03-04T23:03:00Z

It becomes more urgent — strident even — less playful and more serious. The Art of Summer: Summer?s Over; the Game Begins 2011-09-07T22:27:57Z

The finale, “Terror,” is a playful, lo-fi lark centered on an extremist militia in possession of a dangerous supernatural weapon. ‘V/H/S/94’ Review: The Right Snuff 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

An inevitable consequence of this chummy idolatry is that the playful tone begins to feel rather cloying. ‘The Pez Outlaw’ Review: Sweet and Lowdown 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Friedman took a playful approach to cryptography. ‘Decoding the Renaissance,’ at the Folger Shakespeare 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

In the middle andantino, Barnatan engaged in a playful dialogue with the instruments, and that colorful back-and-forth carried into the finale, where a jaunty and jubilant orchestra brought it all to a brilliant conclusion. Review | For NSO, a subtle Tchaikovsky goes a long way 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

And she also has a son, Bear, 7, with her current husband, who has gone back to his original name, Edward Abel Smith, from his playful pseudonym, Ned Rocknroll. Kate Winslet Has No Filter 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z

But that only describes the plot of this formally playful, extremely Godardian film, which opens with footage that shows its own making. It Started With a Kiss. Then Film Scholars Found More. 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

Yes, it is a Siegfried reference, Mr. Tarantino said, never mind the playful spelling. ArtsBeat: Spaghetti Surrealism Makes a Comic-Con Appearance 2012-07-15T22:39:39Z

When the indie-pop artist Kimbra joined him for “Holding It Back,” as on the album, they struck a sultry give-and-take, pliable and playful. Review: Bilal Brings Far-Out Viewpoint to This Life and His Show 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

Here’s what I can say about Mexican salads: They are often unique, with an exotic element in them, with playful textures and multiple layers of flavor in the vinaigrettes or dressings. Mexican salads, hold the tortilla shell 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

The song’s newly released video is a playful tale featuring animated traffic-sign silhouettes having a night out on the town. Cultural Clicks: Tweets from God, the Songs of Summer, and Soccer Art 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

In fact, all the dogs seemed to be equally playful. Ruff Club Brings Exclusivity to the Pet World 2013-01-02T21:02:22Z

And the painter brings out Ms. Smith’s playful side. 'How to Be Both,' a Novel by Ali Smith 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

But their clever little melodies, knowing asides and playful, evocative synthscapes survive them. Hidden treasures: Telex – Looking for Saint Tropez 2013-01-22T15:04:00Z

The sculptures move you from comfort to unease, following the cunningly playful double-entendre of the show’s title. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

She wants to interact in a playful way.” Bison return to National Zoo

She had recently cut her hair military short, and while playful makeup softened the style, she still looked like a woman to be reckoned with. Jennifer Hudson, Without a Safety Net, Prepares for ‘The Color Purple’ 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

Bezar, whose name is a playful riff on both "bazaar" and "bizarre," will be a members-only curated shopping experience aimed at promoting emerging brands alongside established favorites. Founder of Fab.com launches a new design marketplace 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

The Winslow effect is to fuse the grave and the playful, the body blow and the joke, the nightmare and the pipe dream. Books of The Times: New-Wave Drug Dealers in Don Winslow?s ?Savages? 2010-07-07T22:18:00Z

Starting with his eldest daughter, Susan, Polgár was careful to treat it as a playful activity, turning it into a fantasy of dramatic wins and losses. How to raise a brilliant child without screwing them up 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z

It is a playful production, though, with a spirit of inquiry. A Welcome Gust of Weird, and Adventures in Shadow Puppetry 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

“I’m Australian, do you know Australia?” he asked her students in Vietnamese, with a playful smile. Blogging Is All About the Experiences 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

In “Elizabeth,” a dense and playful work for six, Ms. Carlson is looking more internally at her life in dance. A ‘Dancey-Dance’ From a Choreographer of the Everyday 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

The panels are poignant, playful and sparking with humor. Oaxacalifornia dreaming: L.A. library mural project looks at a visual language that transcends borders 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

In a playful video posted to her TikTok last week, the director — just days before the release of his latest epic, “Killers of the Flower Moon” — conducted a very important, very serious audition with Oscar. Martin and Francesca Scorsese, TikTok’s Dynamic Duo 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z

The sound design of “The French Dispatch,” enlivened by Alexandre Desplat’s playful and knowing score, is punctuated by the scratching of pencils and the clacking of typewriter keys. ‘The French Dispatch’ Review: Remember Magazines? 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

We are in Balazsland, a place that is playful and provocative, with an almost sensuous attention paid to comfort and well-being. | What Makes André Balazs Cry 2013-12-02T22:33:01Z

But there is something a bit anarchic and playful that is working through. "Polite Society" filmmaker on combining Bollywood, martial arts and "angry women being rageful" 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

The outer movements are quite playful and quirky. A Sister and Brother Choose Repertoire by Feeling and Listening 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

When I see her like this, so buoyant and playful and caring, I cannot comprehend the contradictions, how they translate to where we are now. All We Can Do: a short story by T.M. Shine

Dyer couches her great grief in the language of almost playful domestic annoyance: "Couldn't you have just waited up a little longer for me?" Love poems: writers choose their favourites for Valentine's Day 2012-02-10T22:52:01Z

There is a glimmer of hope, a suspicion of redemption, and enough playful wit to suggest that what’s building in “Little Constructions” may well be a comic novel after all. Review | Anna Burns’s ‘Little Constructions’ is just as twisting and tragicomic as her Booker Prize winner ‘Milkman’ 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

She was tough and had a cool exterior, but she was also playful and expressive. Warpaint: 'Ari Up never lost her ability to captivate an audience' 2010-10-22T09:13:00Z

"Just Feels Good" maintains their peppy, playful style, with the high-speed wordplay of "Here We Go Again" and the sweet sentiment of "That's So Me And You" capturing their charisma and flirty, fun connection. Review: Thompson Square's new album continues run 2013-03-25T17:55:14Z

The cocktail hour was packed — the predominant feeling was playful, with a dash of gallows humor: “This is so great. I just hope it’s not a superspreader event,” joked one guest. ‘I can’t get used to heels’: Inside D.C.’s gala season as it tries to bounce back from the pandemic 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

His remarks were spiritual, in keeping with the theme of his movie about his journey through China; but he also relished exchanging playful remarks with his audience. E Street nation remembers beloved Big Man Clemons 2011-06-19T18:46:04Z

These constructions, mostly created in 1961, are playful structural romps, pushing at the boundaries of dance and sculpture. Vibrant Scene?s 20th-Century Base 2010-12-17T14:43:11Z

A video of the playful “hunt” was posted on Facebook by Continental Manor on Monday. Ohio nursing home residents ‘deer hunt’ with nerf guns in adorable video 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

Goose, a methodical jam band from Connecticut, did a live jam, on video, with clear landmarks of Minimalistic stasis, playful crosscurrents and dramatic, attentive buildups. Cardi B’s Gleefully Relentless ‘Up,’ and 12 More New Songs 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

It is just a playful gesture, I am thinking. Read an excerpt from Joyce Carol Oates’ new story collection “Dis Mem Ber” 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z

In New York, this playful confusion of architecture and landscape works; it is odd, and it delights. Is architect Bjarke Ingels’s bold remake of the Smithsonian Castle grounds mere folly?

Mr. Alorwoyie’s lead patterns directed the dancers, but when another drummer took over the atsimevu, Mr. Alorwoyie stepped into a dance with his wife; their playful steps around each other were like marital shadowboxing. A Servant of Rhythm From Ghana, in Texas 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Her precise, harmonious, playful paintings hung alongside works by Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky in a 1937 exhibition here in Basel. Puppets, Purses and Paintings, Too: An Overlooked Artist With Range 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

It was sane, playful and stylish at the same time. Do good buildings make for better educated children? 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

For summer scenes, use something playful in a major key; in winter, try the deep end of a glockenspiel but use very sparingly. The top 10 gay movie cliches 2013-03-25T19:40:00Z

With vividly detailed sets by Donald Eastman and colorful costumes by Gabriel Berry, the updated production concept is both playful and poignant. Opera Review: ‘Cendrillon,’ From Massenet, Is Playing at Juilliard 2014-04-24T22:40:30Z

The tone here is playful, and the finished portfolio occupies a realm somewhere between dreamy improvisation and the casual goofing of two friends passing notes in study hall. Mario Schifano’s Excellent New York Adventure 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

A certain playful rivalry has always been the heart of the partnership between Steve Martin and Martin Short. Steve Martin and Martin Short Trade Barbs, and Eulogies, on ‘S.N.L.’ 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z

Reconciliation is the theme of this movie about a work of art whose every riff and playful verse embodies the idea of music’s healing powers. Movie Review: ?Under African Skies,? About the Paul Simon Album ?Graceland? 2012-05-10T23:19:38Z

Since that animated Disney film opened in theaters in November and arrived on Disney+ on Christmas Eve, its playful song “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” has steadily grown into an international hit. We’re Going to Talk About ‘Bruno,’ Yes, Yes, Yes 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

If his playful gloss of Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” is any indication, it was at least tangential. Music Review: Gregory Charles at Caf? Carlyle - Review 2011-09-13T20:12:21Z

From taking reality apart, they were starting to put it back together, incorporating pages from newspapers in complex, playful masterpieces such as Picasso's Guitar. Celebrating 1913, a glory year for modern art 2012-11-19T17:00:03Z

Though the mood shifted from ostentatiously playful to vaguely aggressive to ballroom romantic, the freeze and melt rhythms of Mr. Levy’s choreography grew monotonous, and the slinky transitions between stunts made little sense. Dance Review: Levydance Performs ?Romp? at Joyce SoHo 2012-02-21T22:41:24Z

The ugly selfie, then, is a kind of playful slice of authenticity in an age where everything seems airbrushed to perfection. With Some Selfies, the Uglier the Better 2014-02-21T21:58:08Z

“And I thought it would be a playful way to take people’s suffering seriously without feeling so serious.” A Song and Dance Collaboration, Straight Outta Swamplandia 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

Opposite this painting, in playful juxtaposition, is a microscopically precise 19th-century study of a leaf. Howard Hodgkin - the last English romantic painter 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z

Yet for all the darkness, there’s a welcome and important dose of levity too, from a hilarious video of a beauty products fair by María Luisa Bemberg to Regina Vater’s playful, costumed self-portrait photographs. The Art of Staying Cool: 10 Can’t-Miss Summer Shows in New York 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

Wiig’s comedy is sharp, goofy, playful and dexterous, which would fit the bill for a ceremony that asks a lot of its hosts, from opening monologues to live stunts to elaborate dance numbers. Oscars 2019: who should be the host? 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

The album only becomes more playful as it progresses, even as the tight focus on contemporary ills hangs around. For Three Avant-Garde Musicians, It’s Time for Pop 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

She’s playful, impulsive and passionate; the light is back in her eyes. Review: In ‘Blue Jay,’ Returning to Romantic Roads Not Taken 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Hekselman, 36, owes a lot to the more nebulous tone of Kurt Rosenwinkel, though he has a knack for playful misdirection and blues inflection that gives him an identity of his own. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

The artists often employ found objects, frequently scavenged from nature and reimagined with a playful eye. Review | In the galleries: A painful, political take on the art of cruel shoes 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

She is also funny and weird and playful, tinkering with language, pressing further into an image or scene. Joni Mitchell Discusses Her New Book of Early Songs and Drawings 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

The pair's playful banter makes it even better. Steve Doocy of 'Fox & Friends' reveals a happy Christmas tradition in his family's household 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

He took several mostly playful jabs at former employer NBC, nothing vicious or spiteful. Conan O'Brien legally prohibited from being funny 2010-04-13T19:33:00Z

The aquatic theme then continued with the collection, a playful 89-look procession of vinyl rain gear. The Top 10 Moments of Paris Fashion Week 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Bartelme’s materials move with ease, as do the dancers, swirling hither and yon in eddies both playful and yearning. Dance Review: Lar Lubovitch Dance at Gould Hall 2012-11-16T23:12:29Z

Fun, lovable and playful, this animated film is also culturally relevant, as it follows a kooky family that is humanity’s last hope after robots take over the world. 10 Ways I Fed My Fandom(s) 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

The production at 59E59 Theaters has the playful mood and aesthetic of an insightful and ambitious school project, traversing thorny terrain with deceptive simplicity. ‘Hooded; or Being Black for Dummies’ Review: A Tragic Pageantry 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

It's told in short, separately titled sections that skip in constantly unpredictable directions; a playful, essayistic piece that only gradually reveals the seriousness of its subject. A brief survey of the short story part 33: Deborah Eisenberg 2011-04-13T10:09:30Z

If her work wasn’t overtly political, she sneaked some messaging in there, often diffusing any overt cultural critique with a playful and humanizing sense of humor. Doris Lee, Unjustly Forgotten, Gets a Belated but Full Blown Tribute 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

For every person wishing "America's Grandmother" were actually their own, there are others who aspire to be like her in their mature years: bright, playful, mischievous, devoid of apology or, at least outwardly, regret. Remembering Betty White, America's grandmother and the first lady of television, dead at 99 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

Ms. O’Sullivan also has a playful side, skillfully wolf whistling and at one point leading the audience in a chorus of “meows.” Review: Camille O’Sullivan, Proclaiming Ferocious Truths at Irish Arts 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

This year’s selection also features many playful experiments in form. In the galleries: Finding, and creating, nature in the city 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

In the video, campers repeat after Chasten as he recites a playful “pledge” to the rainbow flag, ending with, “affirmation and equal rights for all.” Perspective | Fans of Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill have a new favorite word: ‘grooming’ 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z

While the academy’s voters have become more adventurous in the past decade or so, “May December” seems too perverse and, frankly, too intellectually sophisticated and playful to secure a best picture nod. At a Particularly Strong Cannes Film Festival, Women’s Desires Pull Focus 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

The multitalented entertainer opened the evening with a playful performance of “Come Get it Bae,” backed by a flurry of cheerleaders. The 6 most memorable moments from the BET Awards 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

The mood is playful; but the dances seldom accumulate much substance. Dance Review: Ridding a Moody Cunningham Work of Ambiguity, One Gesture at a Time 2011-02-14T23:29:10Z

It’s been 30 years since this cult series, known for its playful evisceration of B-movies, began on a Minnesota TV station. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ and ‘Mirzapur’ 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

The “Trek” shows have had their playful elements from the start. ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Review: Life as Phaser Fodder 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

It’s largely Robbins exploring the possibilities of two men and a woman, à la Balanchine’s Stravinsky ballet “Agon,” but in his own playful way, wittily visualizing the character of the music. City Ballet Review: History, Rarity and an Odd, Fascinating Solo 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

“Memories” is a very much a new wave film in its freewheeling mix of cinéma vérité-style hand-held street scenes and playful freeze frames. Outside Cuba’s Revolution, Looking In 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

The film’s playful map of this subterranean world, with a vast frog library and swanky ant bistro, is a delicious work of world-building. ‘The 2021 Oscar Nominated Short Films’ Review: Major Issues in Brief 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

That sense of playful acknowledgment, a casual but considered gesture, also gets to the heart of what the duo was up to by turning attention to the witty fun of "Focus." 'Focus' filmmakers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa go for the unexpected 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

There was a playful elusiveness and a comfort that Benoit Blanc had about him, almost in deliberate contrast to Bond’s rigidity. Ladies and Gentlemen, Daniel Craig 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

“I was interested in giving people a playful experience of interface frustration, turning the tables on ‘user-friendly tech,’” he writes. In 'Uproot,' Jace Clayton takes a worldwide tour of the digital underground 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

These magical moments are grounded by the cinematographer Gherardo Gossi’s tactile photography, which accentuates the youthful vitality of the sisters’ bodies and the playful chaos of their movements. ‘The Macaluso Sisters’ Review: Tragedy Across Time 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

But a year later he created the playful “Interplay,” which integrated classical steps with a jazzy, American style of moving. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center 2013-05-05T18:59:07Z

But while their relationship is playful and affectionate, his stature as a writer complicates Alice’s own literary aspirations. Lisa Halliday’s Debut Novel Is Drawing Comparisons to Philip Roth. Though Not for the Reasons You Might Think. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Yet the show is more playful than macabre. Art Review: ?Dead or Alive? at Museum of Arts and Design 2010-04-29T21:13:00Z

Her engagement with the source material, hundreds of titles’ worth, is rigorous yet playful. What Decades of Reading Scandinavian Crime Fiction Can Teach You 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gyorgy offered a playful rendition, elegantly highlighting the melody that emerges from the filigree and runs. Music Review: Adam Gyorgy at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-14T22:02:25Z

Many companies, like the Berserker Residents, take a more playful approach to the genre and celebrate a deliberately low-budget aesthetic. Cyborgs Onstage, Robots in the Wings 2010-12-30T23:58:33Z

“Everything in the Overlook signals trouble, trouble that unfolds at a leisurely pace almost as playful as it is hair-raising,” Janet Maslin wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Sherlock’ and Carrie Fisher’s ‘Wishful Drinking’ 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z

There’s a playful, volleying spirit to the whole endeavor — intriguing, endearing and odd. Review: ‘Distant Observer’ Shifts Shape as Authors Take Turns 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

It’s both self-consciously mannered and merrily playful — a mixture that Austen herself might find just right. The week ahead: mead-brewing classes, Chuck Close’s giant faces and, of course, SIFF! 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

We fell in love with them – they were so playful and exciting. The hot bands of the summer – according to the labels 2013-05-16T18:00:00Z

What saved the performance from ever becoming tedious — as was the case at the best of the Happenings, for that matter — was its humor, its genially aggressive physicality and its playful intellectual charge. Music Review: The Knights Echo John Cage’s Happenings at the Stone 2012-06-05T21:28:02Z

Piano lines dart about the keyboard and intertwine; the jagged rhythmic writing can be feisty or playful, jazzy or pensive. Classical Playlist: Carl Nielsen, Lou Harrison, Bach and More 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

He had that trick of being exquisitely formal and playful at the same time. Perspective | The night I danced with Arthur Mitchell at the White House 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

And it’s clear that the playful spirit that made the Orange Alternative a highly successful element of the wider Solidarity movement is still alive in Wroclaw. Next Stop: Wroclaw, Poland Has Its Sights on Tourism 2010-04-24T02:57:00Z

With his easy, relaxed vocal style, West is a playful, drawling jester hosting his own ostentatious champagne sodden hip hop party. Poll: Who's best? Jay-Z or Kanye West 2012-05-18T11:35:20Z

The piece is, not surprisingly, suffused with Ravel’s spirit, but the lyrical themes are Mr. Dubugnon’s own and are driven by a playful, modern sensibility. Music Review: Violinist Adds Intimate Stage to a Concert Hall Week 2011-03-02T23:02:56Z

It is sardonic and playful, bleak but parodic, disturbing and deeply moving. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Grief and Its Hucksters 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

Not that she lingers in her distress; this show gets playful fast. ‘Twelfth Night’ Review: A Shot of Joy Under a Darkening Sky 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

And those who prefer not to follow fads at all need only wait a while: much of today’s playful punctuation will soon become unfashionable, dead as the diastole and the diple. Don’t p@nic 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

“He’s always had this playful, nimble ability to look at history, art history, and politics,” she said. Art Basel Hong Kong Has Its Grand Reopening 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

Though playful, there was a certain earnestness to the project. A Sequel to ?The Official Pretty Handbook? to Be Published 2010-04-03T16:32:00Z

Happily, the new series — which stars a woman of color, "One Day at a Time" reboot alum Isabella Gomez, in the teacher role — seems to have captured Elias' revolutionary but playful spirit. "Head of the Class" and the man behind the '80s comedy's progressive, even radical agenda 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z

It is earthy and refined, ancient and modern, both playful and deeply serious. New Nordic Cuisine Draws Disciples 2011-08-24T04:40:04Z

This is a heartening project, a philosophical excavation of a school that abounds with playful optimism. ‘Un Film Dramatique’ Review: Students Record the Paris Suburbs 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

Gill brings to this potentially grim picture an ear for the playful undercurrent — a sense of the world’s splendid possibility — that also ran through Woolf’s life, countering much of the darkness. Beholding Virginia Woolf Through the Women in Her Life 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

‘The Human Symphony’ In this playful, patchy and compassionate show, six willing spectators act out recorded interviews about online dating. Theater Listings for Feb. 6-12 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

With this guy — kind, smart, funny, progressive, with that youthful, playful spirit I’m always a sucker for — I could picture it. Coming out of the bisexual closet 2014-04-07T23:00:00Z

The difference is, of course, that he’s black—and that he talks about it with fascinating, playful rigor. Larry Wilmore’s big night: Late night’s elder statesman steps up in tonight’s career-defining role 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z

In equal measures intelligent, playful, ambitious and moving, the program, performed by three gifted sopranos, illuminated the shape-shifting power of the human voice. Music Review: Resonant Bodies Festival at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn 2013-09-06T22:26:20Z

Hardware assignments gave the staff a chance to produce playful iron dragons and foliage motifs on a small scale, and homeowners could always remove the pieces if their tastes changed. How Franklin Thwarted Counterfeiters 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

The playful piece is a riposte to the square's military monuments. Rocking horse boy unveiled in Trafalgar Square 2012-02-23T16:02:09Z

Thus the grim milieu is graced with something gentler, more playful. Review | Decades after the raucous ‘Harbart’ became a cult classic in India, a translation finally arrives 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

In a first novel full of deceptive simplicity, lyrical language and playful Igbo mythology and humour, he uses the madman’s apocalyptic vision for the family as a way of conjuring up Nigeria’s senseless body politic. Fathers and sons 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

The film openly acknowledges its potential bias and includes a playful, fictional rebuttal from Assange, cobbled together from his tweets and interviews. Absent Assange Looms Over Debut of WikiLeaks Drama 2013-09-05T20:59:49Z

The songs — you’ve heard them and will want to hear them again — are catchy, playful, clever and foot-tapping, filled with an understanding of, and warm affection for, people and our foibles. Good times roll at Ebony Repertory's 'Five Guys Named Moe' 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

On the album “Belafonte Sings the Blues,” the backup group features top jazz musicians and the singing gets loose, frisky and playful. Work, Love, Dignity and Play: 10 Key Harry Belafonte Songs 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

But what makes him pop onscreen is that when things go bigger and grimmer here, as they invariably do in blowouts of this type, he retains a playful weightlessness. ‘The Flash’ Review: Electric Company 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

Some critics complained then that DeGeneres was too playful for the traditional decorum of the Academy Awards. Ellen DeGeneres brings deadpan affability back to Oscars 2014-03-03T03:02:19Z

Although I fully enjoyed this playful world, I couldn’t help wishing for a tad more darkness. Cat Girl? A Kinder, Gentler Superhero Comic 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z

After all, there are composers whose music, and indeed whose lives, seem less privately contemplative, more obviously playful, dramatic or public. Bach in business 2010-07-29T20:45:00Z

He did a playful, full-skirted chiffon dress striped with fur and fringed in between with coq feathers, and one or two satin corseted looks that made overt reference to dance. On the Runway: Gaultier: Let's Dance 2011-07-06T16:46:21Z

He is intellectual, playful, a little mischievous — as likely to challenge a question as to answer it. Christoph Waltz Has Some Thoughts 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

Vignettes focused on bullying or the playful tension between rivals. Review: The Brooklyn Academy Dips a Toe Back in With Live Skating 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the playful Korbut probably did more to end the Cold War than Mikhail Gorbachev. Michael Phelps, Jordyn Wieber: Redemption! 2012-08-01T11:45:00Z

But on Thursday she presented herself above all as a singing actress who combines a lively curiosity and playful disposition with serious attention to text. Music Review: Jennifer Zetlan, Soprano, at Alice Tully Hall 2012-11-30T23:03:42Z

The book was published by the small and savvy Coffee House Press, and deserves a much wider audience—it is funny and honest and packed with playful modernist tricks. The Books We Loved in 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

It offers a playful and moving exploration of life as an ongoing performance. My Perfect Mind – review 2013-04-07T13:17:11Z

Her “Sonata Andina” for piano is muscular, playful and cheerfully combative. Part Teacher, Part Den Mother, a Composer Fosters Diversity 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

There’s a playful quality to Ng’s storytelling that encourages lighthearted engagement and the suspension of rationality. ‘Happy Life’ Review: Ghosts in the Studio 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

Choose from sunny yellow chicks lightly scented with lemon or playful sheep flecked with coconut. 6 Sweet Easter Basket Upgrades 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Hrabal once called his playful style his “defence against politics,” but it was precisely his apolitical effusions that made him so politically suspect. The Violent Insights of Bohumil Hrabal 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

“It wasn’t supposed to be provocative and shocking, but fun and playful.” Noticed: Celebrity Kissing: What Does It Mean? 2010-06-18T18:41:00Z

Mr. Groves switches between patiently teaching and playful teasing, asking distracting questions about working with dinosaurs. Ice Fishing Is Fun! 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

For the Godiva flagship in the Harajuku district, he created a playful ceiling that looked like melting chocolate. The Eye Behind Fashion?s Innovative Showcases 2010-11-19T02:40:00Z

In almost all the space between jokes, there remains a witty atmosphere, a playful effect sentence by sentence. Review: ‘Man at the Helm,’ Nina Stibbe’s Comic First Novel 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Graves pushed and reacted to the music with playful precision, creating momentum and counterpoint while dismantling patterns before they began. A Year of Concerts With Staying Power 2013-12-29T22:45:02Z

And it was a delight to hear the playful back-and forth between the two brothers in the arrangements of three of Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances that followed. Myriad Trio, in its Kennedy Center debut, is nearly impossible to not like 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

Consider the visually playful, raucous, collegiate-in-spirit “Peepshow,” by the interactive company Dog & Pony DC, an element of that reckoning. Review | ‘Peepshow’ declares women aren’t tolerating the Harvey Weinsteins anymore 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

Mr. Knowles, who has autism, brings to his projects an idiosyncratic, impressively versatile and infectiously playful sensibility and an evidently unstoppable creative drive. Four Rewarding Shows in Philadelphia 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Over his subsequent solo releases, Macntaj has proved a playful smack-talker, toeing the line with a wink, a street savvy emcee capable of motoring through raceway bars and kicking smooth melodies with an everyman swagger. Washington’s newest buzz band Enumclaw earns national praise before playing first show 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

This week another, perhaps more playful, faction emerged: Occupy Halloween – “because the top 1% shouldn’t get all the candy,” as its slogan goes. ArtsBeat Blog: A Playful Occupy Halloween Trots Out the Puppets 2011-10-28T19:57:08Z

Some of the pieces are more playful, serene ... and oil-slick free. What a pretty picture ... OMG, what's happening in it, you'll ask, at 2 Seattle shows 2010-09-16T22:24:00Z

One North Carolina city is cracking down on a Halloween candy that is reportedly so universally loathed officials compelled to issue a playful “ban” on its distribution via Facebook, ahead of the holiday. North Carolina city 'bans' Peanut Butter Kisses for Halloween 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

I'll take "playful," frankly — especially when it's delivered with this much discipline and verve. Review: A night at Northwest New Works ? playful men with verve, serious women on the verge 2010-06-06T16:59:00Z

It’s inviting but uncompromising, sophisticated yet playful, the sound of a neighborhood jazz club with an international reputation. Smoke Rises: A Jazz Room Returns on the Upper West Side 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

Jing Tan presented playful men’s wear millinery that included a giant apple unpacked to form a oversize red beret. Youth, Beauty and Politics at a Student Fashion Show in London 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

Sure, there were trends — for linear graphics, playful floral patterns, transparent or shiny materials and the ostentatious banality of “normcore.” Lacoste, Hood By Air, Public School and More Show at New York Fashion Week 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Wiggling his way into the hearts of a new generation, for one, through picture books accompanied by mini-albums offering playful takes on some of his hits. Neil Sedaka turns his calendar girl into dino pet 2012-05-15T21:41:12Z

They’re playful yet spartan, with an austerity not evident in the other pictures, even quiet recent ones such as the lovely “Violin Mantra: Dark Room Puddles Develop Blue Skies.” Not all right angles in ‘Geometrix: Line, Form, Subversion’ 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Simmons maintained a playful vibe with the filmmaker, even though he was nearly three decades his senior. 'Whiplash' director, stars march to a friendly beat — off-screen 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

The result, the playful but pointed “Bernhardt/Hamlet,” opens Sept. 25 at the American Airlines Theater, starring Janet McTeer in both title roles. ‘She Should Be Revered, and She Is Not’ 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

It reflects its era’s preoccupation, at once playful and earnest, with finding authenticity in an alienated, media-saturated world. ‘Tell It Like It Is,’ a Chapter of New York From 1968 to ’86 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

A one-man sculpture park in the wild, built with an intelligence and aesthetic that feels otherworldly, Purifoy’s museum is a sometimes playful, sometimes poignant dreamscape. Palm Springs beyond the poolside: lonesome hikes, alien-inspired architecture and a poignant art museum 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

This is obvious yet serious stuff, and director Helen Pafumi’s playful, low-budget show is ferociously acted and reliably smart. ‘Leto Legend,’ saving the day for a woman trying to have it all 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

Also, the thing that's really beautiful about Cocteau is that he is so playful. | 'Writers at Work: Paris Review Interviews' 2012-09-30T13:00:46Z

Mr. Tetzlaff’s wiry tone is not the most luxurious sounding, but it’s ferociously articulate and agile, as in his fluent transition in the Schumann’s second movement from elegiac to playful and back again. Review: Tetzlaff Trio: Music That’s Off Kilter, Even Boozy 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Still, “Pacific Rim,” with its carefree blend of silliness and solemnity, is clearly the product of an ingenious and playful pop sensibility. Movie Review: In ‘Pacific Rim,’ Pilots Inside Robots Face Alien Invaders 2013-07-11T12:00:01Z

Reporters who knew the ruse thought it was anywhere from playful to creepy. Did a 9-year-old called ‘Pickle’ really write that letter to Trump? Yep, he’s real. 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

“Just Because,” published earlier this month and illustrated with playful subtlety by Renée Kurilla, is composed of inspirational lessons in the form of couplets. Matthew McConaughey Distills His ‘From the Hip’ Philosophy for Kids 2023-09-16T04:00:00Z

Each change of tone – cutesy to spooky, playful to histrionic, joyous to dazed – is calibrated to serve the song rather than the singer. Albums of 2010, No 1: Janelle Mon?e - The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III) 2010-12-17T00:05:02Z

That line appears more than once in “Jaco,” an illuminating, compassionate new documentary, and its hubris comes across as both playful and deeply serious. ‘Jaco,’ a Documentary About the Jazz Musician Jaco Pastorius 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

Her performance of “It’s Always You,” with Mr. Cole, was relaxed and playful, dominated by his easygoing personality. Music Review: Hilary Kole?s CD Release Concert at Birdland 2010-08-10T22:34:00Z

We found South American writers to be a little more playful and absurdist. Diversity is making science fiction better: “We’re in a full flowering of potential” for the genre 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z

I wasn’t around for that heady heyday of La MaMa, the willful, playful brainchild of Ellen Stewart, who died on Thursday. Critic?s Notebook: Rocking the Cradle of Experimental Theater 2011-01-13T23:30:04Z

It is Campion's wonderful art to be seriously playful. Poem of the week: My Sweetest Lesbia by Thomas Campion 2010-03-22T10:50:00Z

One playful segment allows a guest to record a video tribute, which immediately is inserted into a documentary showing on the wall. EMP | SFM Nirvana exhibit recalls once-in-a-lifetime moment 2011-04-08T23:55:22Z

For a good stretch “Armory Show” is playful in a serious way, but the spell is broken when the Bonnie Tyler song “Total Eclipse of the Heart” is introduced. Dance Review | 'Armory Show': A Grand Showplace Seen From All Angles 2010-02-22T23:39:00Z

Yet this is the playful exploration the book inspires . . . along with research that reveals that Spam musubi was created in the mainland World War II internment camps, not in Hawaii as is broadly accepted. The best and boldest new must-read books for May 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

I could hear Zoloft’s anxious barking as she was brought down to socialize with others, including a Boston terrier so mild mannered and playful that I felt jealous that my own wasn’t nearly as social. Ruff Club Brings Exclusivity to the Pet World 2013-01-02T21:02:22Z

That the phrase “phone home” is “a playful allusion to the Spielberg movie about an extraterrestrial named ‘ET’ who was trying to find his way home.” Review | Attention, Tom Hanks: Dan Brown’s new novel, ‘Origin,’ is ready for you 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

An acidic undercurrent darkens the work’s playful exterior; cheery Neo-Classical and Baroque allusions soon become dissonant and even nightmarish. Music Review: A Philharmonic Evening of Schnittke, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky 2012-03-30T21:34:43Z

The program strikes a playful tone as it educates viewers about the minutiae of weasel life, and the lives of some related mammals. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Chef Show’ and ‘Year of the Rabbit’ 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

Read more from Rolling Stone: Paul McCartney delivers a playful gem with "McCartney III" Taylor Swift moved her album release date for Paul McCartney 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

The president was in full Uncle Joe mode — playful, relaxed, delivering bad jokes with good humor. Biden pardons his first turkeys — but who will pardon his bad jokes? 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

The colors change from week to week; Nourmand calls this “a playful touch,” but it also creates a palette that builds in sophistication with the series. Graphic design’s role in “Girls” 2012-07-05T00:00:00Z

Pink, as Ms. Steele writes, was perceived in those days as a pretty color expressive of delicacy and playful high spirits. A Big Bold Show Wants You to Rethink Pink 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

Gomez-Rejon infuses the film with both a playful energy and a heartfelt, emotional heft. 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl' a fresh start for director 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Dense and immersive, “Crab Tracks” is also playful, irreverent — a novel of pogroms and resettlement camps but also fancy balls and scandalous affairs. Searching for the Past in Cameroon, Only to Find It Is Still Very Present 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

But if “Coco” doesn’t quite reach the highest level of Pixar masterpieces, it plays a time-tested tune with captivating originality and flair, and with roving, playful pop-culture erudition. Review: ‘Coco’ Brings the Pixar Touch to Death 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

It was a compelling theory, one that seemed in keeping with an author known for his playful high jinks. Pynchon Intrigue Abounds Over ‘Cow Country’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

Jim and I shared many qualities: an unending appetite, inhaling life to the full chorizo, finding hilarious and playful nuance in every breath and every moment, but I always was and remain the student. Inhaling Life with Jim Harrison 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

It begins with a playful moment of empathy – "In all my years as a pedestrian/ serving juice to guests, it never occurred to me/ thoughtfully to imagine how a radish feels." Quick Question by John Ashbery – review 2013-03-15T17:30:01Z

The mutual enhancement especially clarifies both Nadelman’s debt to folk art and his original use of it: his playful but unerring perfection of line, shape, facial expression and applied color. A Rich Feast of Folk Art at the New-York Historical Society 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Charles Isherwood in The New York Times called the show a “playful and thoroughly winning tour through American pop history.” Esperanza Spalding and Taylor Mac in Lineup for Celebrate Brooklyn 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

Picasso is not just modern in these playful creations, he is our contemporary, as he shows how art can be made from nothing. Picasso shows a softer face in London 2010-08-13T11:03:00Z

Director Kornel Mundruczo, from Hungary which has taken a particularly hard line on immigration, called it a "provokingly political movie" but also "happily playful". European migration crisis gets super-power treatment in Cannes 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

Play-based preschools are working from this theory and purposely set up scenarios in which the children are learning about letters, numbers, science and language in playful situations. Perspective | When a 5-year-old has trouble transitioning from playing to learning 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

But it is also curiously playful and unsettling at the same time. National Gallery of Art offers rare chance to see ancient Greek bronzes 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

They look astounding, hovering above the big halls that museums increasingly design to house such spectacles, and suggest a playful generosity of spirit, but they also resemble big, pillowy, transparent trampolines. Art Review: Tomás Saraceno’s ‘Cloud City,’ on the Met’s Roof 2012-05-25T23:00:40Z

He came across in small groups as attractively modest, playful and smart. True Hollywood story: The producer and the Black Panther 2012-06-09T19:00:00Z

As the references to this unseen character pepper the conversation, her invisibility becomes the object of playful asides. | 'Go Back to Where You Are': From Amphitheater Bit Player to God?s Errand Boy 2011-04-13T02:01:25Z

What they are creating is variously playful, conceptual, and—while often defying conventional beauty—completely captivating. The Season's Most Captivating Outdoor Sculpture From Carol Bove, Olaf Breuning, And More 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

At the height of her powers here, Summer is both playful and commanding. Remember Donna Summer: listen now to five classic songs 2012-05-17T20:33:10Z

The other problem with the cock-block issue is that even though the term sounds like a playful piece of slang, it’s at least passively sexist. Trevor Noah’s “c**k-block” question: Sexist language isn’t clever or funny — especially not in this campaign 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

They want entertainment, diversion, the playful spin of a born storyteller. Tabloid: The Honey Blonde and the 'Manacled Mormon' 2011-07-14T21:10:00Z

As Cam Stuart, a bipolar man with an unconventional approach to parenting and life in general, Ruffalo creates a portrait that's alive with firing and misfiring synapses, at once playful, tender, abrasive and magnetic. 'Infinitely Polar Bear' emphasizes resilience with bipolar dad 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

The script, in which self-consciously playful banter gives way to sudden floods of loud feeling, might have worked better as a string of emoji. Movie Review: Zoe Kazan Plays Disparate Twins in ‘The Pretty One’ 2014-02-07T00:05:05Z

Shadows on a street are playful, as are reflections of bodies. Experimental film "Erēmīta" is an inventive & vivid celebration of our pandemic hermitage life 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

In the 1970s, Oliveros published a series of “Sonic Meditations,” playful koans meant to heighten our experience of listening. Learning to Listen to, and Beyond, the Siren’s Call 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z

Odetta recognized, as most Dylan fans hadn’t yet, that Dylan’s true brilliance lay beyond the political, in the realm of the playful and the poetic. Listen to Odetta Cover Dylan 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

The restaurant is set to reopen its dining room on Friday night after a six-month hiatus, serving sweet plantains, pork tamales and lamb skewers in a bright, playful space that Mx. Still Here and Still Queer: The Gay Restaurant Endures 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

We witness violent territoriality during fights between packs, but we also discover the playful and gentle side of even the most aggressive wolves. Perspective | I never considered myself an animal person. Books changed that. 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

They’d be considered just as much a playful diversion as Blur, not the geniuses they were. A skeptic reconsiders Blur: “The Magic Whip” could be their “White Album” 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

Her aim was to show the playful waltz between the two artists, both of whom made pieces that touch on the traditions of antiquity, artisanal handwork and the decorative arts. An Art Menagerie Touched With Magic 2010-03-29T15:27:00Z

In “The Death of Dreams,” Mirza recounts her dream of moving lightly, with playful asides, while still having sobering moments of introspection. ‘A Dozen Dreams’ Review: Eerie Memories Bring Magic to the Mall 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

From a distance, its playful elegance evokes children’s blocks wrapped in gray corduroy. Sugar Hill Museum Brings Art to New York’s Youngest (and Poorest) 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

They remember her as a woman of contradictory impulses: she was uncompromising yet playful, endlessly curious yet intensely private, and, despite being a caretaker, could be aloof to the point of callousness, even cruelty. Vivian Maier and the Problem of Difficult Women 2014-05-10T04:00:00Z

Best of all, perhaps, is the playful Aria variata, a youthful work foreshadowing Bach’s mastery of the variations form. Classical Playlist: Puccini, Mendelssohn, Wagner and More 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

Known for a wry naïf style, he enjoyed using snappy colors and playful cut-and-paste imagery. Simms Taback, Writer and Illustrator of Children?s Books Dies at 79 2012-01-01T06:47:20Z

Depicting an idyllic mountain scene, it refers to the surroundings, and to Mr. Pesce’s happy visits to the area, in a playful way that also suggests a more complicated take on how museums present themselves. At Museums, a Mix of Old and New 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

Being a patient, playful, protective mother is largely common sense, adds Goodall, who is scornful of child-rearing books that suggest otherwise. Jane Goodall: 50 years working with chimps 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z

It’s a mysterious yet playful look in tune with a tale whose 11th-hour surreal twist could give Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” a run for its money. Review | Sarah Ruhl’s quirky take on depression at Constellation 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

Her designs, playful yet elegant, often incorporate whimsical objects like eyeballs, spiders and shirt collars rendered in precious metals, candy-colored jewels and oversized pearls. Young Designers Reimagine Jewelry 2014-03-26T21:04:55Z

Hence the attraction of happy snaps such as this one, which presents a honeymoon as the prolongation of playful childhood, not the start of adult life. George Harrison and Pattie Boyd's honeymoon, Barbados, 1966 2011-01-09T00:05:47Z

Oldman’s blustering, booze-sodden performance, together with Wright’s visually playful direction, means that even without a single shot of troops on the beaches the film packs in just as much breathless drama as Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk. Toronto film festival 2017: a surge of woman power 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

Carl Walters does more inherently robust and playful things with clay in a vase glazed with sailboats; a plate featuring a hippo and dragonflies; and a small sculpture of a lion tamer. Art In Review: ?The Woodstock Story Told in Paintings, Photography, Sculpture and Ceramic? 2012-01-19T23:47:18Z

Mostly there’s Mr. McDonagh’s playful, sometimes overly cute language, which serves the actors and also threatens to upstage them. | 'The Guard': Mismatched Partners in a Crime Comedy 2011-07-29T00:26:25Z

“The mood is often playful, with teases and fake-outs that are sometimes humorous and usually right before shocks,” Andy Webster wrote in The Times in October. DVD: New DVDs: ‘Our Man Flint,’ ‘White Zombie’ 2013-01-25T23:58:36Z

“It’s an opportunity to try to redefine what a museum can be and see it as a playful experience,” said Charlie Garling, the museum’s director of learning and creativity. Buffalo Remakes its Museum in its Own Image 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

Here again, I sensed a skillful, playful hand. In Seville, Spain, young chefs are creating the next generation of tapas 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

They're playful – they recently hacked their way into Lady Gaga's Twitter account – and punishing. New band of the day ? No 808: Teeth 2010-06-15T15:44:00Z

When the interviewer wisecracked, “In prehistoric days,” Wray gave him a playful swat. Review | Fay Wray and Robert Riskin’s daughter revisits a Hollywood love story 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

A Yohji Yamamoto show done in a playful mood is irresistible. Special Report: Looking for a New Elegance 2010-06-25T17:28:00Z

Events crackled with new, playful energy, like when actor Jean Dujardin did a handstand for photographers at Cannes or Jamie Lee Curtis channeled her mother, Janet Leigh, on the “Halloween Kills” carpet. PHOTOS: The world of entertainment saw rebirth in 2021 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

“The Creation as We Saw It,” shot on the South Pacific island of Vanuatu, is a playful collage of local origin myths and folk tales. Ben Rivers’s ‘Two Years at Sea’ and ‘Slow Action’ 2012-10-07T05:03:01Z

The books are repositories of mild gossip, practical wisdom, family news and playful ribbing. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

They are marvelously adept at capturing the playful but nuanced tone of Szymborska’s poetic voice, which somehow fuses an emotional gravity with sudden tenderness and delightful flights of the imagination. ‘Map: Collected and Last Poems,’ by Wislawa Szymborska 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Kids will love getting a visit from their Sesame Street friends, and caregivers will appreciate how the special models playful learning opportunities they can use at home. Something for everyone: The best movies to stream in April 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z

Here’s a playful approach: making a list of the top 10 composers in history. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Help Write the List 2011-01-07T16:00:38Z

Mr. Iverson’s score, which he plays onstage, is terrifically smart and stylistically diverse, mixing strains of early jazz, blues, contemporaneous classical music, Latin tinges and later pop with wit and a playful sense of history. Review: Dance Heginbotham Shows Off Its Eccentric Style at the Joyce 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

To his usual streamlined formula he added some surprising galaxy prints on Hawaiian shirts and a bomber, a playful and risky chance that paid off. | Fashion Review: Men?s Wear From Bastian, Plokhov, Ervell - NY Fashion Week 2011-09-13T22:30:37Z

And it might be a record, it might be a guitar solo, it might be a dress that Bette Midler wore at an awards show, and it was just playful. Greil Marcus on music writing through 5 presidencies, fighting the Gorgon of Thatcherism and getting to the heart of the “authorless song” 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

This type of humor — silly, playful, straddling the fine line between witty and corny — runs through the work of this Berlin-based collective. These Artists Bring Pickles to the Party 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

The singer was excited and playful at the event, and even cracked a few jokes. Katy Perry Previews New Album ‘Prism’ at NYC Event 2013-09-06T15:01:07Z

With plans for a fall wedding, the bride-to-be says that they’re considering an October 4 celebration in a playful nod to police code. Georgia police officer pulls over girlfriend to propose 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z

The film takes a playful approach to horror film conventions. After long wait, Whedon brings 'Cabin' to SXSW 2012-03-10T19:52:08Z

"There was no grip, it was a playful tiff." Saatchi cautioned over assault on Nigella Lawson 2013-06-18T10:46:08Z

And Yorkey's lyrics, though playful, keep hammering the same thematic points about fate, responsibility and the eternal mystery of the future. Idina Menzel is radiant in the flawed 'If/Then' at the Pantages 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

That’s a big part of why I like it: With minimal means, she conjures a searching, often playful tone. 5 Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

For all the seriousness Lehman loads into those undulating eyes, his playful way with form turns each of his portraits into an idiosyncratic invention. What to see in L.A. galleries: Hot-button greeting cards, mesmerizing photograms 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

As a director, Swift's style is playful and eccentric. Why Taylor Swift could succeed as a director and what to expect from her first film 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

The designs, in a color palette including khaki, taupe, ink and racing green, also featured playful flower embroideries. Stella McCartney inspired by Dad for debut men's fashion line 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

In some of your works there are legible English word lists, though — playful, slangy pairs of words, such as “Orb Brain” and “Muddle Head.” For Karla Knight, Paranormal Is Normal 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

Made as if by an untrained eccentric who has cultivated her own private language of signs and symbols, Ms. Morton’s paintings and sculptures may be hard to interpret, but they are infectiously playful. Review: ‘The Art Show’ at the Park Avenue Armory Covers the Creative Map 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

"He was so playful and so smart. So smart and witty," Milenkovich says. Jerry Blumenthal left lasting memories on screen and in person 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

Caroline Polachek’s playful “Welcome to My Island” sounds like several different songs — from several different eras of pop — spliced together. SZA and Phoebe Bridgers’s Team-Up, and 8 More New Songs 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

For Ms. Ebersole it is a conscious leap beyond her usual comfort zone of playful nostalgia. Christine Ebersole’s ‘Big Noise’ Cabaret Show Is at 54 Below 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

Our five picks for perky, playful Perth: 1. Five Reasons to Visit Perth 2012-05-09T05:20:00Z

And the effect is playful and strangely contemporary. Exhibition Review: In ‘Art of the Brick,’ Nathan Sawaya Works With Lego 2013-06-13T22:04:31Z

At just the right moment, this dazzling girl, brimming with pluck and perpetual good humor, domestically energetic, chipper, and playful, had landed on Walter's doorstep. A dazzling new book by David Guterson 2011-10-15T04:27:07Z

A group of smaller pieces read as playful, personal homages, and are dense with wordplay and fruitful friction. C.K. Wilde dazzles with cut currency 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Saskia was happy and playful at home, growing up in a loving and supportive family, but school was difficult. Still have your childhood teddy? The psychological power of the toys we keep 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

“How might we do so in ways that are playful, creative and joyful?” Can algorithms be funny? Veterans of Clickhole and the New Yorker team up to find out. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

He speculated that, "maybe it's too playful for them, to deal with something so serious." Greek crisis: An odyssey seen through ancient myth 2012-06-24T11:41:12Z

Warm weather styles, too, are upbeat and often playful. Colors in, and black out, on Milan runway 2012-09-23T22:46:03Z

Jagger leans into his part with the relaxed, playful relish that suggests a man having the time of his life. Perspective | Mick Jagger is a movie star again, and it’s about time 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

For all of Ms. LaVette’s vocal resemblance to Ms. Turner, she is not half as playful and upbeat. Music Review: Rock Songs Turned Testaments of Triumphant Soul 2011-05-25T22:18:01Z

Friends remember him as playful and big-hearted, not given to irritation unless people treated his employees poorly, or wanted to destroy the Amazon. This Brazilian artist and landscape architect was bound only by the limits of his imagination 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z

I followed Matthew Gabree, director of global office experience, into the lobby, a playful space with vintage luggage used as shelving, a tower of Rubik’s cubes and a world map made of travel photos. How TripAdvisor altered your vacation-planning universe 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Models were dressed in playful chunky knits over shorts or in wool and felt coats and capes with colorful furry collars or panels. Winter mountain wonderland for Anya Hindmarch at London fashion week 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

The playful animal design is also suited for indoor uses. 2009-12-01T05:00:00Z

This unsettling ambiguity is the only constant in their playful, passionate, bitter encounters. Antony and Cleopatra ? review 2010-10-16T23:07:00Z

“People want a playful outlet,” said event curator Michelle Tea, author of cult favorite memoirs “Valencia” and “Rent Girl,” and most recently “Modern Tarot.” 'Experiment I' turns a literary event into performance art 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

The firm, based in Chinatown, is known for playful and modern designs that use simple materials to invert notions of space. New York’s Power Siblings Make Names for Themselves 2012-07-04T14:47:18Z

Her arrangements, which she describes as “fresh, harmonic and playful,” are inspired by the seasons: anemones and forget-me-nots in the spring, chamomile and sunflowers in summer, and red fruits and autumn-colored hydrangeas in the fall. T Black Book: Florists 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

It wasn’t until the end, when the musicians joined the dancers on their level for a playful coda, that everyone relaxed, and we glimpsed who these performers might be as people. Review: Irene Rodríguez Compañía Offers Flamenco With Flirtation 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Or the playful, amused Michael Moore of his latest film, Where to Invade Next? Michael Moore: ‘Trump inspires his side. It’s like Munich in 1932’ 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

“It is both joyful and playful but extremely consequential,” he said. A Homecoming of Good Fortune for an Artist’s Pile of Cookies 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

“He literally grew up in a cage,” Dunn said, pointing to a playful tabby named Cooper who found new owners off the bat. Nation's First Cat Cafe Opens in Oakland 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

Eilish’s songs are actually miniature sonic fun houses, anything but drab or monotonous, with playful melodies, meticulously varied instrumentation and a theatrical spectrum of attitudes, from taunting to suicidal. Pop Music in 2019: An Escape From Isolation? 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

It feels playful—close to, but not quite, kitsch. Playing Hoodoo: Renée Stout and “The Rootworker’s Table” 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z

This stunt is playful but not meaningful — even when the episode topics tend to faintly resonate. Review | ABC’s live ‘Good Times’ and ‘All in the Family’ try again to rekindle the magic of yesterday’s sitcoms 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

So here, to start, are some styles in the pale palette of the season that are playful and, with one smashing exception, less than $300. Browsing: Shopping Snapshots: May 24 2012-05-23T16:37:03Z

With his more playful, abstract gestures, Lepore locates a different kind of poetry in the spandex. Anthony Lepore's show at Francois Ghebaly explores the workplace and spandex 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

But the combined effect of all this stuff is faint indeed, a playful obliqueness that seems somewhat pointless. Review: There's something (weird) about Mary 2013-04-23T02:16:03Z

The prologue begins with the playful barbarism of a party game that amounts to Whack-a-Turk and the incapacity of European women to achieve their own liberation is emphasized by the men. Can Opera Become an Agent of Change? 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

It is heroic, and playful, and enjoyable, which is more than you get in most country houses built in the past 75 years. Downley House – review 2013-03-24T00:06:06Z

Behind her playful adventurousness lies a well of passion. Review: Grace McLean, Whose Songs Skip Across Boundaries 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

His libretto is playful and genuinely funny throughout, despite the foreboding undertone. Review: Seattle Opera’s ‘Blue’ explores the effects of police violence 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

But if a window wall rotating outward is playful, there is nothing light about the way it is built. Chicago’s new ‘Tilt!’ puts you over the edge - of a skyscraper 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z

After engaging in a playful standoff, the men graciously conceded the table to the women, and the groups struck up a friendly conversation. ‘I think we found a boyfriend for you.’ Turns out, friends met her future husband. 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

“We were looking to cement the playful, social nature of the space,” Cole said. | A Hotel in Dallas Where the Art Is as Impressive as the Rooms 2013-06-03T20:11:09Z

“Sex and Consequences,” which alternates live performance with shorts both old and new, is about genetic inheritance and social evolution, filtered through absurdity and abetted by playful design. Socially Distant, Except for the Dogs, Sheep and Chickens 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z

Kutik and the imposing pianist Anna Polonsky moved together effortlessly through thickets of dissonance in the first movement and the playful, percussive jabs of the second. Review | Violinist Yevgeny Kutik’s debut at the Kennedy Center has its highlights, and its lowlights 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

Each Wayside School book contains 30 short, playful chapters about the students in Mrs. Jewls’s class on the 30th floor, all loosely connected by some central theme. Louis Sachar returns to wacky Wayside School more than 40 years after ‘Sideways Stories’ 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

Multiple playful cocktails, from “Bang Bang” to “Yellow Submarine,” succeed at inventive savory-sweet infusions. Is there room for opposite palates on one Viennese plate? 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

On the face of it, “Feline Philosophy” would seem like a departure for Gray — a playful exploration of what cats might have to teach humans in our never-ending quest to understand ourselves. Want the Good Life? This Philosopher Suggests Learning From Cats 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

Auden; it’s comparatively more playful, with comedic glissandos and an extreme depth of range that reveals Ms. Davidsen’s past as a mezzo-soprano. The Met Opera’s Newest Star Returns, on the Small Screen 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

They seem to be of one sensibility, with their playful, raunchy sex talk and smug, pleasure-seeking narcissism. Review: A Blistering Billie Piper Unravels Brilliantly in ‘Yerma’ 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

“It’s been this knot inside of me. But because ballet was cut off from me as a really young person, it’s still a playful space in my memory.” Katy Pyle and Her ‘Misfits of Ballet’ 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

Lines on the wall connect this book with Crockett Johnson’s “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” in which such a world comes into being out of a child’s playful scrawling. Exhibition Review: Public Library’s ‘ABC of It’ Looks at Children’s Books 2013-06-20T22:19:09Z

Best of all was the Scherzo No. 4 in E, a playful piece with a coy theme that keeps breaking into bursts of light chords leaping up the keyboard and spiraling runs. Emanuel Ax and Stephen Hough Explore the French Side of Chopin 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

So I think people might even enjoy the limericks and that kind of stuff because at least they're kind of fun and playful. AP Interview: Trethewey a 'cheerleader' for poetry 2012-11-21T13:16:14Z

“Muazzez” is one of those stories, by turns playful and desolate, and now translated nearly verbatim into a monologue directed by Mr. Wellman at the Chocolate Factory Theater. Theater Review: ‘Muazzez,’ a Monologue Based on a Mac Wellman Story 2014-01-13T22:17:09Z

It was a typically playful offering, entirely in keeping with Sievey's wilful sense of the absurd. Chris Sievey obituary 2010-06-22T14:16:00Z

There are no faces in Nakeya Brown’s playful photos, which represent black women through their hair and related appliances. In the galleries: Shiny fantasy worlds, undercut by body parts and company logos 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Hunt’s refusal to be pigeonholed killed his major-label career, but without bean-counters looking over his shoulder, he sounds frisky and playful. Album review: Van Hunt, 'What Were You Hoping For?' 2011-09-26T04:33:00Z

It was a day for celebrating female beauty as designers envisioned the spring and summer collections of 2011 in a playful way, short on orthodoxy, long on color and whimsy. Dresses go flouncy, slinky at London Fashion Week 2010-09-17T17:18:00Z

But for those who don’t have time to leave the airport and see Singapore proper, Changi’s gardens and playful attractions are the next best thing. My 27-Hour Vacation in Singapore’s Changi Airport 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

These same insignias grace many of Wearstler’s home decor items and are a playful wink at the designer’s grand aesthetic. Kelly Wearstler's Line of Stylish Sketchbooks 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Here, too, Budion sees clearly that the boyish rowdiness that comes off as playful has an element of danger—that it risks tipping over into the kind of violence that the boys’ father displays. “Rockaway,” Reviewed: A Queens Boy’s Stark and Moving Tale of Surviving Domestic Violence 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

It was very easy to play brother and sister because we really like each other, and we’re playful with each other. Maryann Plunkett Says Goodbye to Her Lives in Rhinebeck 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

A door from the living room leads to the master suite, the bedroom of which is a study in contrasts: hard lines and gentle curves, classical serenity and playful fancy. Ricky Carmichael 2010-09-01T04:00:00Z

The first movement — undulant, rippling and unsentimental — led to the playful yet melancholic Allegretto, which segued into a whirlwind account of the turbulent finale. Music Review: A Beethoven Warm-Up and a Liszt Workout 2010-11-21T22:53:00Z

This is not just a clever, playful conceit. Review: Kamel Daoud Interrogates Camus in ‘The Meursault Investigation’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

So Bob Mankoff’s new book is half prose, half illustrations and tirelessly playful. Books of The Times: Bob Mankoff’s ‘How About Never — Is Never Good for You?’ 2014-03-19T20:53:31Z

She was impressed by how her designs were not only playful but “really well made,” she said. Ella Emhoff Drops a Small (Very Small) Collection of Knits 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

With gender issues so front and center these days, the Trocks — both imaginative and playful — are as relevant as ever. Stars and Stripes (and Trocks) Forever 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

“A fun, relaxed, playful environment is the home run and will counterbalance the outside influences of marketing,” he said. Motherlode Blog: A Young Picky Eater Surprises His Parents in the Kitchen 2014-01-22T17:31:28Z

The Blue Sky animation studio’s house style is enjoyably antic, with a playful but never sloppy disregard for the laws of physics. Review: ‘Ice Age: Continental Drift,’ With Ray Romano 2012-07-12T13:54:00Z

I saw posts from the usual mix of friends, jokesters and ideology debaters, but most of them weren’t reaching out in their usual playful or celebratory tones. What Baltimore needs now: Leaders who will help end the violence 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare was being playful, since Polonius is nothing if not artful. Design: Designing Books for a Digital Age 2011-01-31T01:00:03Z

Swings Both Ways is Williams' second stab at the genre, and finds him in a relaxed, playful mood. 1,000 Number ones: A chart history 2013-11-24T19:15:15Z

The very best Regency buildings are playful, capricious masterpieces, and George created the most recognisable skyline of any building in Britain with Windsor Castle. George IV: the rehabilitation of Old Naughty 2011-08-28T20:00:05Z

Their performance of the Sonata No. 4 in A minor is darkly playful, their “Kreutzer” Sonata brilliant and stormy. Classical Playlist: Christiane Karg, Alan Feinberg and More 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

The film is sprinkled with hints of violence—whether vicarious, playful, or accidental—and the fearfully liberating power of that violence. Joe Swanberg’s Decade of Revolution 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

Both are playful and intricate pattern designs made from images of surveillance equipment. Ai Weiwei’s Lego Portraits of Activists Head to the Hirshhorn Museum 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

The film’s knowing, playful sensibility toward horror movies -- who dies, when and why, how to survive -- went over well with the audience, which laughed and cheered throughout much of the show. SXSW: 'The Final Girls' starts a horror-comedy party 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z

With its sculptured geometry — a playful advertisement for itself — it’s even a little like the Pepsi sign. Why Can’t New York City Build More Gems Like This Queens Library? 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

The haunting yet playful theme song by Siddhartha Khosla completes the experience and provides a recurring motif heard throughout the series. Those magical "Only Murders in the Building" main titles – including each hidden Easter egg 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Just as oranges are not the only fruit, white is not the only hue in this playful show that not only introduces the concept of colour, but also that of change and transformation. White 2010-09-01T20:45:00Z

Now, she is making music that’s playful and untethered, but just as crisply delivered as ever. Jessie Ware Is Dancing Into Her Second Act 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

Named for her playful vegetables-only venue, the New York City chef’s effort borrowed a cartoon setup to tell the story of her restaurant, recipes included. A brief history of graphic cookbooks 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the visual scheme has a playful blatancy. Steven Soderbergh’s “High Flying Bird” Is a Funny and Fleet Late-Capitalist Critique 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

On their watch, I feel more playful, and less didactic and shouty than normal. ‘We’re never going to bed’: children rewrite the house rules 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z

The phrase “form over function” is particularly apt here — the hotel seemed more appropriate as a place for playful photo shoots than as a place to stay. Check In/Check Out: Hotel Review: Maison Moschino, in Milan 2011-01-21T19:55:00Z

Related: Joseph Gordon-Levitt: 'Edward Snowden was warm, kind, thoughtful' It would not be stretching a point to compare the playful spirit encountered on set to the mixture of mischief and magic that characterised Petit’s escapades. ‘If you hate heights, you won’t be comfortable watching’: Robert Zemeckis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt on high-wire drama The Walk 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Taking sticky selfies after her first scene, Bella lets her guard down and is funny, even playful. "Pleasure" is a gutsy, humane film about porn stardom 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

Fragments of melody at a normal range are surrounded by strange, playful plucks and jitters much quieter and higher. Music Review: Calder Quartet and Mostly Mozart Orchestra at Lincoln Center 2013-08-04T20:19:01Z

The trick was accomplished with a mirror in the grass; playful, certainly, but all too forgettable. Critic?s Notebook: Crossing the Line Festival 2011-09-20T21:15:12Z

Working in Los Angeles, the Lithuanian performer Kira Nova recorded playful videos that offer a creation story, starring herself as a kind of maniacal, freethinking aerobics instructor. How Do You Stage a Global Art Show Now? In South Korea, Curators Press On. 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

The building is solemn with its robust abstractions and playful with its curves and striations. Museum Review: The Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas 2012-12-01T00:56:04Z

Notorious RBG” may be a playful project, but it asks to be read seriously. Review: ‘Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’ 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

The bar’s ethos, quirky yet simple, is emblematic of Steamboat’s rebirth as a resort town in touch with its playful side. 36 Hours in Steamboat Springs, Colo. 2012-12-05T20:27:07Z

As he points out in his gusty and brilliant new book, when it comes to the weather, the British swing between "sulky resentment and playful derring-do". Turned Out Nice Again by Richard Mabey – review 2013-03-08T09:00:01Z

“Soaring,” our reviewer, Minh C. Le, called this playful story about a Native American boy who, tired of sharing a name with his father, seeks a suitable new one for himself. Notable Children’s Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

In the odd, difficult role created for Suzanne Farrell, Sterling Hyltin was serene and playful, giving us something graceful to watch without illuminating the work’s enigmas. Review: ‘All Balanchine II’ by New York City Ballet 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

The woman who gave her name to the company’s mantra, “quick and curious and playful and strong,” was no longer part of its day-to-day operations at the time of her death. Thank you, Kate Spade, for making women feel “quick and curious and playful and strong” 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

A Sailboat in the Moonlight is well Ze with a dash of Tom Tom Club: bright, playful funk, from a time when brightness and colour were radical gestures. New band of the day: Escort (No 1,506) 2013-05-03T16:34:13Z

The maturation with every game involves the basic rules and the continuing playful conversation between creators and gamers. Video Game Review: New Super Mario Bros. 2 for the Nintendo 3DS 2012-08-17T11:55:55Z

That year, he starred in “Insidious,” an early experiment in the producer Jason Blum’s low-budget horror revolution and a creepy, atmospheric ghost story with a playful touch of David Lynch. In Praise of Patrick Wilson, Scream King 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z

The designers said they wanted the bags to be playful. Ballroom meets the beach as Peter Pilotto opens Milan Fashion Week 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

"She always had this playful cockiness about her," he said. Adele's sophomore disc mines shattered love 2011-02-23T22:20:08Z

All three movements of the 15-minute work are delightful, but listen to the finale, “Counter Rhythm,” which goes through moods alternately grim, jerky, playful, cosmic, suave and woozy before ending with a CinemaScope-wide flourish. After 25 Years, San Francisco’s Maverick Conductor Moves On 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

But he was also great company: witty and playful, with a brilliant mind. Photographer Milton Gendel's best shot 2010-04-14T21:30:00Z

The whole movie was a visual feast, with bright costumes and playful dance numbers, and it never explained the puzzling genealogies of its characters. ‘Hamilton,’ ‘The Simpsons’ and the Problem With Colorblind Casting 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

On the Web, a search for “1950” on Etsy.com turns up many vintage varieties with pleats and high waists, in an array of colors and playful patterns, for about $30 each. | Fall Fashion: Retro Looks, Almost at Retro Prices 2010-08-25T23:41:00Z

It could be sparse, smothering, crackling, Caribbean-tinged, even playful, all while keeping as far away from pop as dance music could. Review: Electric Zoo, a Menagerie Designed for Dancing 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z

The absurdly detailed text, which somehow became readable through Mr. Sikoryak’s playful interpretation, shrunk from 20,669 words to just under 7,000 in what is now called the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions. An Artist Helps iTunes’ User Agreement Go Down Easy 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

One is playful and surprising, the other too normal. Designs of the Year 2012 ? review 2012-02-12T00:05:52Z

Over the course of his career, the Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce has made often subversive, sometimes playful and always queer work for the big screen. Bruce LaBruce on 'Virginia Woolf' and Other Influences 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

The melody is a statement with the nobility of a Greek temple, a quiet expanse broken only by a playful little burst of a scale, like a giggle atop the Acropolis at sunrise. Bronfman Braces for the Five Piano Concertos 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

When the kids are just doing kid stuff — playing softball, fretting about who to ask to the school dance — “Secret Headquarters” has the playful, mischievous air of something like “The Goonies.” ‘Secret Headquarters’ Review: You Know, for Kids 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

“I think men are just as interesting as women,” she said with playful generosity. Moira Buffini on ‘Dying for It’ at Atlantic Theater 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z

The author certainly sees himself as a playful provocateur, but his message is dire. Net costs 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Known for his playful poetry and for flouting typographical custom, Edward Estlin Cummings grew up happily entangled in both nature and words — contentedly aware of his “enormous smallness” while exploring the wilderness. Best children’s books for April: Poetry edition 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

The songs are distinguished by beautiful vocal lines and playful lyrics that aren't afraid to be silly, particularly when the gang from Dan's head pops in. 'Frozen' team premieres 'Up Here,' a quirky, pleasing, undercooked musical 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z

Thus they offer an opportunity for exploration that is, well — playful. What Makes Berlin a Playground Paradise 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

This summer is meant to be more playful. At the Lucerne Festival, even hip-hop skateboarders love Pierre Boulez 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

Awash in Southern California calm and optimism, this is a playful and joyous ode to the big personalities, embellished stories, endless possibilities and endearing Hollywood-adjacency of a place that barely exists anymore. ‘Lost Daughter,’ ‘Licorice Pizza’ top AP’s best 2021 films 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

Inside the hotel you’ll find playful touches like magenta escalators and hot pink walls, a nod to the bold use of color in the work of the Mexican architect Luis Barragán. Hotels Roll Out the Red Carpet for Pets 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Howell also designed the 1930s-era costumes, and those are wonderful: sleek gowns and smart suits for the upper class; proper, playful uniforms for the staff. Metropolitan Opera Opens With ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

It’s literally talking about not finding your balance with a playful image. How Christine and the Queens Wrote One of the Best Songs of 2015 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

Life for her is paradox — playful, mournful, always unpredictable. María Irene Fornés, ever the teacher, continues to instruct 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

It’s the difference between comedy rooted in camaraderie or conflict, between showbiz or the real world, between a playful tickle or a gentle poke in the chest. On Comedy: Jon Stewart’s Role in Developing Stars 2014-04-16T21:19:38Z

“Five Tangos” was the hit of the evening, a work of crisp, satisfying visual geometry with the playful kick of Astor Piazzolla, whose tango compositions always sound like little film scores — witty, theatrical and compressed. Washington Ballet’s ‘Petite Mort’ delivers wit, surprise and mystery

It’s a playful exploration of elemental contrasts, lovely in its casual simplicity. Perspective | The best dance, on your laptop: Young risk-takers are going outdoors to create short, raw films 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

Even when the movie wants for tension, it brims with playful style. ‘End of the Road’ Review: Thrill Ride 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Twice during the piece the music stops, which, combined with unexpected dynamic changes, heightens the playful mood. Music Review | Andras Schiff: Sharing Affinity for Haydn 2010-03-01T05:49:00Z

Instead, it was the kind of gig that highlighted her playful side, making a feature of her ability to shift from giddy scatting, to leathery rasping that evoked Shane MacGowan after a heavy night. Carleen Anderson – review 2013-01-09T18:25:40Z

It is at once playful and devotional, a dollhouse and a reliquary. Art Review: ‘Hooray for Hollywood!’ Recalls Holly Solomon’s Eye for Art 2014-01-16T22:48:08Z

Drawings in pencil, pen and paint hanging in a side gallery are looser, more playful verbally and formally. Lawrence Weiner's work at Regen Projects: It's all spelled out 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

They’re full of blinding coups de théâtre — but replete, too, with playful minutiae you might see only on your fifth time around. Stefan Herheim’s Glittering Collisions Have Changed Opera 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

It’s an exciting, kinetic, deeply moving work with intoxicating twists, rhythmic feints and playful orchestration. Review | My spirits needed a lift. Violinist Hilary Hahn and the NSO delivered, in D major. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

“We loved that it was really playful and funny in dealing with serious subject matter,” Kate Loewald, the company’s founding producer, said. Jonas Hassen Khemiri, the Playwright Behind ?Invasion!? 2011-09-09T07:30:35Z

“Sometimes a perfectly outfitted, pristine space is not really in line with messy, dirty, sweaty, smelly dance,” said Garfield, who led Saturday’s audience in a simple and playful dance routine to “New York, New York.” A Celebratory and Scrappy Farewell (and Hello) in Queens 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

His playful Cubist-inflected domestic scenes show his interest in reducing the figure to bold, simplified forms and colors embedded in patterned interiors. ?Will Barnet at 100? at the National Academy Museum 2011-10-09T04:00:20Z

The illustrative detail in many of these contracts is also demonstratively playful. Exhibition Review: ?Journey Through Jewish Worlds,? at Yeshiva University Museum 2010-06-25T23:36:00Z

I’ve always been fond of my great-uncle: gentle, curious, loving towards animals, playful and affectionate. Should I be ashamed of my grandfather? 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

It was a sparkling performance, but playful too, and when Kuhn sang “Vanilla Ice Cream,” from “She Loves Me,” it reached a pinnacle of musical theater artistry that I hadn’t known I was aching for. After a Midsummer Shiver, Provincetown Proceeds With Care 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

Ms. Zimmerman’s successful Broadway production of “Metamorphoses,” adapted from Ovid, a play she wrote and directed, was inventive, playful and yet profound. Music Review: Rossini?s ?Armida? Has Its Premiere at the Met 2010-04-13T20:20:00Z

This happens in “Joan Miró: Birth of the World,” especially in an astounding first gallery which is alive with Miró’s inventiveness, natural talent and playful malice. Miró’s Greatness? It Was There From the Start 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

And in this offbeat, humorous, and playful role-playing game, it is her family that will ultimately help her succeed. In Thirsty Suitors, the Dance Battles Are Powered by Family 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z

Although it looks like a giant playful joke on millions of seaside souvenirs, the ship is a surprisingly faithful tribute to the admiral whose monument overshadows it. Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth: Victory launches with a lot of bottle 2010-05-23T13:19:00Z

The bucolic setting between the Petit Trianon and the English Gardens of Marie Antoinette welcomed a playful menagerie of sculpted bronze animals dispersed mainly outdoors. Bronze Beasts Blur Line Between Furniture’s Wild Side and High Art 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

Like Pal, Spike didn't get the part at first; producers thought he was too friendly and playful to play a scrappy stray. Legendary film dogs 2012-02-24T10:55:58Z

Yet she also works almost childlike magic, bending space and time, amused by playful possibilities. Exhibition Review: Public Library’s ‘ABC of It’ Looks at Children’s Books 2013-06-20T22:19:09Z

She describes it as "accessible, playful, and yet mysterious and intriguing." Kathy Valentine of The Go-Go’s on her Beatles love and bass player parallels with Paul McCartney 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z

The little pieces are sometimes quietly gentle and sometimes quietly playful, but in Mr. Huebner’s hands, both modes felt unexpectedly epic. Review: A New York Philharmonic Contact! Menu, With Esa-Pekka Salonen as Chef 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

Millet’s boldly playful and intellectually charged body of work combines lightning bolts of emotional acuity, moments of precise poetry and subversively dark comedy along with investigations of existential ideas and real-world concerns. In These Stories, Home Is Where the Heartache Is 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

Benchley’s literary style is upbeat and playful; it is a type of comedy that was known in the nineteen-twenties as “crazy humor,” according to Schwartz. Robert Benchley’s Legacy in a Era of Fraught Comedy 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

Here the sentimentality of Longfellow’s familiar words is countered by the slyly playful melody and undulant wrong-note accompaniment. Music Review: Marilyn Horne Celebrates Young Singers at Zankel Hall 2012-01-21T00:03:22Z

It’s a playful and dangerous course, vintage Pete Dye, the abstract expressionist of golf course designers. 18 Holes With Greg Norman: The Shark On Golf, Adventure And How He Became A Folk-Hero In China 2013-06-04T14:00:00Z

Her solution is in keeping with the playful spirit of this 90-minute production. Review: In ‘The Comedy of Errors,’ Twins Lead to Confusion 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

Her tone with guests is both playful and serious: Lazarus is a veteran of U.C.B., standup, and comedy writing, and she was once in a doctoral program in clinical psychology. Jon Stewart, Employee of the Month 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

“The performers,” as stated on her website, “are ‘freaky insiders,’ forced to connect in uncomfortable, yet playful ways. Dance Listings for the Fall Season and Beyond 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

“I see this as a game — a bizarre, playful game, with elements of Monopoly, chess, go and maybe backgammon,” said Mr. Orozco, whose unruly gray hair and nubby wool jacket give him a hip-professor look. His Art Is on the Oxxo Shelves. Keep Your Receipt. 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

History of a much less hermetic or playful variety than is on display in the exhibition came roaring back. 'Make New History,' the second Chicago Architecture Biennial, brings the focus back to square one 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

Under the golden glow of spotlights and with playful strobe-light effects, “Shelter” almost felt cinematic. CalArts play 'Shelter' gives voice to immigrant children 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

In Simone’s version, the tone suggests a playful warning and forms a declaration of inevitability. Just What Was on Trial in the Bill Cosby Case? 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

But this delightful book presents their charmed life in Paris as a model of creativity, neatly captured by Katstaller’s colored pencil sketches and Robillard’s attention to the playful soundscapes in Stein’s poetry. From Haiku to Spoken Word, Picture Books That Bring Poetry to Kids 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

The track has a playful swagger, and a relatively straightforward, if potent, message: “Girls is players, too.” Coi Leray Borrows a Hip-Hop Classic, and 8 More New Songs 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

The more ambitious, Spring/Break Art Show, offers shake-it-all-up collaborations between artists and curators, while Volta is a mixed bag, but with a strong streak of playful abstraction. The Thrill of Unpredictability at Two Art Fairs 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

“I wanted to show various ages - people that were actresses, musicians, chefs, DJs,” Temperley said backstage, adding that she wanted the summer line to be “light, colorful, playful”. Model Alexa Chung's brand takes off at London Fashion Week 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z

Although that’s not unprecedented, the artist is better known for bustling visual dialogues that feature playful gambits such as dried paint nailed to the canvas. Review | In the galleries: Tehran doesn’t reveal itself readily 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Henson brings strength, radiance, precision, and presence to the gags and playful situations and to the drama, however mild it is; she lends the movie’s artifices a surprising illusion of substance. Review: Taraji P. Henson Redeems “What Men Want” 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

From We Need a Resolution's odd, skittish argument with a bad boyfriend to the gentle soul of I Care 4 U, it's pop music in a different league, as playful as it is inventive. Aaliyah: still rocking the boat 2011-08-25T11:21:40Z

Our opposing views and playful bickering is exciting now, but will it wear thin as we grow older? What I’m really thinking: the newlywed 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

Bing Thom, a Canadian architect whose swooping, playful design for the Arena Stage company’s Mead Center for American Theater enlivened Washington’s dreary southwestern waterfront and drew critical acclaim, died on Tuesday in Hong Kong. Bing Thom, Canadian Architect, Dies at 75 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

The Z-Zegna section created a narrower silhouette and more playful colors, but it is still clearly a branch of the mighty tree. Special Report: Formal Meets Sporty 2010-06-21T16:40:00Z

Some sculpture entries are unusually strong and/or playful this year. Seattle Erotic Art Festival marks its 10th anniversary 2012-06-21T20:30:06Z

A playful standout was fudge that arrived in a terra-cotta planter, alongside an eyedropper of raspberry sauce for the diner to add — a gimmick, perhaps, but like the restaurant, a bit of quirky fun. Bites: Restaurant Review: Mizlala by Meir Adoni in Tel Aviv 2012-04-13T17:57:44Z

Marina Warner's Stranger Magic is as absorbing, wise and playful as the Arabian Nights tales themselves. Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites 2012-11-23T22:55:14Z

The Brazilian troupe didn't dance so much as launch itself into a kind of playful, elastic synchrony. Review: Brazilian dance troupe Grupo Corpo brings bright, buoyant fare to Seattle 2011-02-04T18:09:04Z

The play is stuffed with lines demonstrating a playful affection for both genres, including a knowing “Exorcist” joke and a mocking reference to a “Dr. Jekyll and Miss Piggy act.” ‘Hand to God’ Melds Gore and Giggles, Each Often Elicited by a Puppet 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

The piece is intended as a playful dig at the square’s military heritage. ArtsBeat: Some More Unusual Company for Admiral Nelson 2011-01-14T17:50:49Z

In the 1960s Alexander Calder designed a hand-hooked rug with playful creatures and celestial bodies. Fuzzy Thinking: Artist-Designed Rugs 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

He’s an heir of Ibsen, a master observer who calibrates the torments and emotional bruises, the rationed caresses and playful lies, with a clinical precision. Ingmar Bergman and the Risk of Ridicule 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Light becomes one drama after another: sometimes startling, often playful. Opening Doors And Reaching New Heights 2010-12-17T14:43:11Z

Their playful collaboration album, “Mac & Devin Go to High School,” plays like the late hours of a family reunion: comfortable, uncomplicated, a little blurry. New Music: Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa?s Collaborative Album ? Review 2011-12-12T23:45:22Z

“Even when the pressure heats up, these boys from Alabama find playful ways to let off steam and stay as sane as possible on their journey,” the Web site assures us. ArtsBeat Blog: Channel Surfing: The Shrimp Combo Platter 2011-11-17T22:00:06Z

But though Mr. Wolfe’s screened-printed jacket designs and typefaces impeccably recreated those of the original volumes, his books were not books but paintings — playful, thoughtful one-offs designed to be hung on gallery walls. Steve Wolfe, a Painter of Books by Their Covers, Dies at 60 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

After a few playful rounds of "Are you?" banter on the subject, he decided to call it a day. Seacrest dodges wedding question at 'Idol' event 2013-03-01T23:52:08Z

Lisa Perry, purveyor of apparel and accessories in cheerful colors and playful patterns, has brought her signature style to SoHo in a jewel box of a pop-up shop on Prince Street. Lisa Perry Opens a Cheerful Pop-Up in SoHo 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

At the interview here, where she was promoting “Underground,” their vibe was not goofy or overly playful, just enviably tight. The Smollett Family Business: Acting and Activism 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

It is also known for a playful artistic bent, and has collaborated with cultural institutions like MoMA PS1, the New Museum and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Spank Mixes Artsy Gay Party With Zine 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

A playful white jungle gym of a structure, it is the best pavilion since Sanaa designed it in 2009. | What Not to Miss at This Year’s London Design Festival 2013-09-14T17:23:59Z

The new apartments built so far occupy a mid-rise complex of mixed-income, red-brick buildings around a network of playful, richly detailed open spaces. New York Has a Public Housing Problem. Does London Have an Answer? 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

It’s a wildly playful album, full of risky production and arrangements — skittering aquatic beats, odd filigrees, punchy power harmonies. What’s Beyoncé’s Definitive Album? 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z

Cosmopolitan yet playful, it has curated vintage furniture and decor. Looking to dodge Amsterdam’s crowds? There are three remarkable towns a short train ride away. 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

He is elliptical at times and, at others, direct: alternately distant and affable, somber and playful, rash and profoundly considered. At 90, Jerry Lewis’s Mouth Runneth Over 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z

Ms. Sumpter’s enunciation has a near-metonymic precision suggestive of Mrs. Obama’s, while Mr. Sawyers’s gestural looseness, playful smile and lanky saunter will be familiar. Review: In an Obama Biopic, the Audacity of Hagiography? 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Such an undercurrent of brutality is never far from the shiny, happy surface — Monsieur Jourdain’s energy morphs from playful to hostile when directed at his kin instead of his hobbies. Review: Rich, Crude and Craving Acceptance in 17th-Century France 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Then there’s that fine, playful phone call between Tim and Colt—”I’m writing a book set in Iraq…”—that’s about Colt’s IEDs and ambush plan but also about Colt’s conception of himself. Justified Watch: All Talk, All Action 2013-03-20T12:00:29Z

For all its madcap energy and playful accomplishments, the novel lacks the dark shadows that make the best comedies truly memorable. 'Parrot and Olivier in America': A historical, comic novel by Peter Carey 2010-04-23T22:16:00Z

This is the playful spirit of a comedy that urges us, in the gentle spirit of Chekhov, to live a little better. Top-notch 'Stupid ... Bird' zings with audacity 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

Intense and playful, Mr. Swing has an expansive, restless energy. Newly Minted Work by a Change Artist 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z

“Atlanta” is the best analogue to hip-hop I’ve ever seen on TV — the storytelling is playful, defiant, dissonant, magical, tragic, decadent and triumphant, all at once. Rap Disrupted Music First. Now It’s TV and Film. 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Eventually they find each other, their violent side-by-side shuddering taking a playful turn with the help of two billowing white sheets. A Premiere for Ronald K. Brown’s Evidence at the Joyce 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

This being an Abel Ferrara production, the cheeky title also refers to the adoringly filmed, glitter-dusted women, which might be insulting but here comes off as merely playful. | 'Go Go Tales': A Bar Where Everybody Knows Your Pole Dance 2011-01-06T23:12:04Z

This past spring, the film “Wild Nights With Emily” focused on the poet’s romance with Susan, as well as the playful wit of her poems. Perspective | ‘Dickinson’ is another example of pop culture trying to liberate Emily Dickinson 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

And probably most importantly, make sure that on the set it’s a playful atmosphere. Oscar Nominees for Best Foreign-Language Film Discuss Work 2012-02-20T22:38:12Z

Sarah Lane and Thomas Forster, an odd but beguiling mix of small and tall, lent a playful edge to a duet that finds the man covering the breasts of his partner with his hands. Ballet Theater Offers ‘Sinfonietta’ and ‘Seven Sonatas’ 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

He was at turns playful and serious, sometimes within the same sentence. For a Little While, the MTV Video Music Awards Were Kanye West’s Show 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z

Virtuosity meshed with a distinctive musicality throughout, evident in his playful approach to No. 3, “Cartwheel” and the soulful introspection he brought to No. 7, “Cello.” Music Review: Young Hands Tackling Chopin?s Intimidating ?tudes 2011-03-09T22:47:17Z

The Huffington Post finds eight playful houses with quirky indoor slides. Links We Love: What We're Reading This Week 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

The next section, which began with singalong versions of “High Hopes” and “Love and Marriage,” was high-spirited and playful, culminating with a jazz-waltz arrangement of “Luck Be a Lady.” Review: Marilyn Maye’s Tribute to Frank Sinatra 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Nugroho’s work is frequently playful, as in his collection of wearable paper masks, and takes inspiration from pop culture and Indonesian tradition. Street-Inspired Art at the Asia Society Museum 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

“I believe that it was meant with a playful intention but the effect was that I felt there was nowhere for me to feel safe and unobserved.” Yael Stone alleges Geoffrey Rush acted inappropriately towards her in dressing room, a claim he denies 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z

In 2013, he opened Alder, which offers a more affordable but similarly playful menu, not far from the restaurant he’s now closing. The Last Days of wd~50 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

The extreme, short edits in his playful, visceral films have helped to keep his work fresh and alive; they still zap with energy decades later. Jeff Keen 2012-06-24T15:35:14Z

Serious stuff, but the rest of the party was playful and upbeat. Harrison Ford on conservation: ‘Nature is my god’ 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

Zagnoli lives in Milan, and her work tends to feature vibrant color and a playful sense of shape. Olimpia Zagnoli’s “Heartfelt” 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

But the pianism in the Franck was ecstatic, and the fireworks of the 10th Liszt Étude sounded more playful than stressful. Composer Stephen Hough, accomplished on paper and in the concert hall 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

“Our take is a bit of a contemporary approach to the fruit; it’s a little playful,” Ms. Petach said. Crème de Cassis for the 21st Century 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

Even if the headline is meant to be playful hyperbole, I think it's still a bad choice. How HQ Trivia Became the Best Worst Thing on the Internet 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

We don’t fully understand what’s happened, but are reassured by its vision of a playful sprawl of kids and parents in bedclothes and PJs. “And everybody cried”: The callous murder of the Harvey family and the song it inspired 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z

But he is fast becoming a household name for his playful, elegant, well-tailored sportswear. | Ami’s Alexandre Mattiussi Goes to Marrakesh 2013-06-06T21:25:04Z

Eliot’s playful collection of poems on feline psychology, is what the long-running Broadway show is based on. Read It Before You See It 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

The film plays as a series of perfectly enjoyable sketches strung together, an excuse for veteran actors to chew on playful dialogue. ‘How It Ends’ Review: What, You Expected Us to Tell You? 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

While Latin rock can be thoroughly entertaining — catchy, playful, rambunctious, over the top — it rarely settles for being mere entertainment. ‘Break It All’ Celebrates the Oppositional Energy of Latin Rock 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

On television in the 1960s, Batman was playful. ‘The Batman’ Review: Who’ll Stop the Wayne? 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

The kind of playful cleverness the Pierces dealt in is rarely rewarded by the mass market. The Pierces ? review 2011-02-01T18:05:58Z

The fannish obsessiveness that animates “The Raven” is its most appealing attribute, and even Poe scholars can forgive it for discarding the biographical record in favor of playful, gruesome fantasy. Movie Review: ?The Raven,? With John Cusack, Directed by James McTeigue 2012-04-26T23:19:38Z

Surprisingly, it's not these theatrical statements that make the most impact; it's the smaller moments and the subtly playful choices that make this a thrilling reading of a classic. The Maids - review 2013-06-09T03:47:23Z

Mesmerisingly beautiful, she retains a playful air of mischief, but is no longer a staple of the celebrity pages, and leads an altogether quieter life. Sienna Miller: 'I feel relatively immune to bitchy criticism now' 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Boucheron’s animal magnetism encompassed the playful nature of a ring inspired by Beatrice Potter’s squirrel “Nutkin,” in ginger sapphires, to magical Indian elephants with jeweled howdahs. Jewelry: Unzip the Bling 2011-01-31T14:40:04Z

The display also includes photographs showing what happens when agitprop is circulated in the public realm: There’s playful graffiti, but also angry defacement. Art Review: ?Gran Fury: Read My Lips? at 80WSE 2012-02-02T23:21:10Z

Mav initially at least can maintain an imperviousness to fear by remaining playful. The lost meaning of "Top Gun" 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z

After that came a playful dance routine with her sister, Solange, on “Get Me Bodied.” Review: Beyoncé Is Bigger Than Coachella 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z

Equal parts gadfly and cheerleader, Saltz is the playful conscience of “The Price of Everything,” a role he can play partly because he has no money on the table. Review: ‘The Price of Everything’ Asks $56 Billion Questions About Art 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

Bright eyed and very pregnant, she romped through 17 songs with lyrics by Mr. Harnick, singing in a clear, shiny voice infused with playful attitude. Music Review: Showering the Songwriter With Love and His Words 2011-03-09T22:38:43Z

These he would cut into playful shapes, some representational and some abstract, which he would arrange and rearrange on a surface until he arrived at something vital, vivid and new. Henri Matisse Cuts Loose 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

This is a sweet, dreamy song about the stuff of nightmares, playful in a way that suggests no consequences lurk around the corner. 50 Rappers, 50 Stories: Hear the Remix 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z

She was powerful and direct in business meetings, but playful, disarming, even confessional one-to-one. No sex, please, we’re colleagues – the new rules of office romance 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z

This is the tone that this unkempt play, produced by the Irish Repertory Theater, strikes throughout: pat, masquerading as playful. ‘The Smuggler’ Review: A Barman’s Rambling Yarn 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

She made it OK for me to be affectionate, demonstrative and playful. Tony Penrose 2010-08-21T23:04:00Z

As zealous a believer, Jason Wu introduced playful, inventive fabric coats for fall 2021, including calf-length deep blue and bicolor swing versions, and a neatly belted black satin trench. Don’t Count Out the Cloth Coat 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

Their playful relationship continues at home as they do laundry. "Unclenching the Fists" is a shattering picture of one woman's inability to escape her needy family 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

Whether taking tiny steps through Stuyvesant Town or using plastic bags as pillows on the pavement in Union Square, participants are invited to be curious, playful pedestrians. Walking and Watching at Elastic City’s Final Festival 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

“You didn’t order brisket?” the server asked, keeping up the playful spirit. Restaurant Review: Javelina in Gramercy Park 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

Then the animal theme takes over at 12:30 p.m. with “Beastly Rhymes,” a program featuring the author Robert Forbes, whose specialty is playful poetry about creatures. Spare Times for Children for April 19-25 2013-04-18T22:11:56Z

There's a unique and playful soulfulness to Blake's tracks, which often feature his own singing voice slowed down by intense digital effects. New band of the day ? No 769: James Blake 2010-04-20T15:20:00Z

The mood is bright and playful, wittiest when making variations out of latticed arms — holding them down, then up, then turning underneath them. Dance Review: Journeying From Head to Toe, With a Layover at the Heart 2011-03-18T22:21:21Z

In a playful finale inspired by the Martian meteorite of the work’s title, players used intricate four-mallet techniques to produce buoyant flurries on bongos, glockenspiel and more. Music Review: Glass Farm Ensemble Plays John Cage at Symphony Space 2012-06-17T22:14:35Z

This playful, colorful staging, which comes from the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, is saturated with Buddhist imagery; elements of Asian theater, including puppets; and, believe it or not, a pair of sumo wrestlers. Review: Handel’s ‘Semele’ Comes With Sumo Wrestlers at BAM 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

In a playful, fun tradition, the mother of the bride welcomes the groom by trying to grab his nose. Readers Share Their Best Unexpected Wedding Photos 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z

He added: “In our minds it’s playful. That sounds ignorant, but that’s really where it came from.” Morgan Wallen’s Career Seemed Over. Now He’s Broken a Billboard Record. 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z

“And then that silly face at the end speaks to a playful quality to her character.” ‘I’m Sick of Seeing My Face,’ Says the Internet’s Kombucha Connoisseur 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

Brown is emotionally honest — sometimes devastatingly so — but knows to put readers at ease first with relatable-girlfriend charm and playful, fizzy humor. Review | Keah Brown is trying to change how disabled people are viewed. Listen to her. 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

In part, that's because trade led to new flavours reaching our shores, yet there's also a sense that Restoration-era grub was admirably confident and playful. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 19-23 November 2012-11-19T07:00:00Z

The grieving parents make their devil's bargain, getting their daughter back, but there's something more ominous than playful lurking behind Alice's newly darkened eyes. How to make a better "Pet Sematary" 2011-07-09T15:01:00Z

Mark Applebaum’s playful “Straitjacket” opened the second half of the program. American Music Festival wraps up with a bang from percussion ensemble 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

Stevenson’s massive, craggy score, mostly written in 1961, includes wildly diverse pieces: strangely playful dances, brutal marches, brooding ruminations, frenzied fantasies, diabolical études, all building to a triple fugue. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

Here, he’s sounding a playful, Alice-in-Wonderland note, and of course we’ll never see that hat walking down a sidewalk in the real world. Sunday Best: A happy look blooms at Fashion Week 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z

And the album’s tracks are as eccentric and playful as they are bleak. “Atlanta” and Vince Staples and a New Hip-Hop Sensibility 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

This overview of postmodern design paints a complete portrait of the playful, colorful and innovative aesthetic that defined a decade. Inspiring, transporting and just plain gorgeous coffee table books 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

The gesture is partly a playful way to honor a piece of the building’s history. Renovating the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

It’s a typical Chapo Trap House skit – the dynamics of class struggle laced with playful irony and an analysis of how medium shapes message. 'We just want to make fun of Toby Young!': socialist US comics Chapo Trap House 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

If anything, he is like another silver-haired talk show host of yore, Phil Donahue: friendly, earnest but willing to be playful. The TV Watch: Anderson Cooper Gets Personal on New Talk Show 2011-09-16T23:33:24Z

"I think it's nice sometimes to see something just innocent and playful and relatable," the woman told Today of the incredible reaction to the silly stunt. Mom's funny bedtime trick for calming down her kids goes viral: 'I'm not even sorry' 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

"I have a slime theory of humanity," Morris told me with a playful grin. The Fort Bragg murders: is Jeffrey MacDonald innocent? 2013-04-13T23:05:28Z

It’s a playful fillip — and perhaps anachronistic, at first glance. The Syncopated Sounds of Old San Juan Hill at the New Geffen Hall 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

Joseph Stein was obviously being playful when he wrote the script for “Fiddler.” Letters to the Editor 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

As emotionally agile as the characters she plays, Ms. Wilson can seem simultaneously self-contained and playful, inquisitive yet somehow disengaged, her core, if such a thing can be isolated, always tantalizingly out of reach. Ruth Wilson Is a Riddle, and You Like Her That Way 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

The two are a study in contrasts, Noma’s playful good-time girl at odds with Akiko’s steady, cautious disposition. Review: ‘Salvage’ Looks at What the Hazmat Dragged In 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

In an email, Alison Findlay, deputy chair of the British Shakespeare Association and a professor at Lancaster University, cast a more skeptical eye on the 19th-century article, calling it “almost self-consciously playful.” Alas, Poor William Shakespeare. Where Does His Skull Rest? 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

By contrast, the work of Saint Phalle includes a personal letter to Dwan, written on a paper rendering of a playful dinosaur, blurring the lines between art and missive. A gallery owner talked herself out of the business and into the desert 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

The range is wider than in previous shows, but the spirit remains playful. Review | In the galleries: Images focus on the future of the planet 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

Mostly Berg does so by making complex technologies seem playful and humorous. Design: Technology's Human Potential 2011-08-21T13:19:05Z

Yet “Extraordinary Stories” is a contagiously playful and thrillingly inventive work, a film that’s more compulsively watchable and conventionally entertaining than any synopsis would begin to suggest. | 'Extraordinary Stories': H Plus X Plus Z, Formula for 3 Intersecting Lives 2011-05-03T21:43:05Z

The album — a work of art, really — goes from emotional and passionate to playful and upbeat, showcasing Queen Bey’s growth and stamina. AP's top albums of 2016: Beyonce, Rihanna, Solange, Bruno 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Rounding the north tip of the road, the music reached a moment of climactic yet playful exuberance — a mix of surging Romantic crescendos and eerily angelic choral drones — until a jazz combo crept in. Over Headphones and in a Truck, the Philharmonic Stays Alive 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

I can tell if a female pop singer, for instance, has a generosity of spirit or a playful fire in her heart. Lana Del Rey on Trump, Kanye and the Right Time for a Protest Song 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

It embodies Radner’s open, playful spirit  in a clubhouse environment where parties are a regular occurrence and junior members are called Noogies. A Gilda’s Club loses Gilda 2012-11-28T16:33:00Z

There was an ease he had on screen that was playful, along with an invitation to come along for the ride. Missing Bob Hoskins’ mischief-making smile 2014-05-01T18:01:47Z

But he still finds a playful side to it as well. George H. W. Bush's Sporting Life 2010-03-25T21:40:00Z

There is a playful experimental scene, epitomised by the likes of Schneider TM, who's sampled and reassembled the noises of Berlin's gentrification for his forthcoming album, Construction Sounds. German music now: from Berghain to Mannheim 2012-06-26T16:36:57Z

For Ms. Peck, a dancer of rare — and playful — musical refinement, this is her finest new vehicle in many months. Review: Serving 4 Helpings of Balanchine, With Thunderbolts and Tornadoes 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

Creating the fantasy of the playful, endless summer of childhood is totally exhausting. Why Do We End Summer So Early? 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z

The slow movement did not plod, and the third movement was a pleasing combination of playful scherzo and leisurely trio. Review | Asian Youth Orchestra, Chang play favorites to sound of crickets 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

What grows from such silences in this highly romantic – and entertainingly playful – production is the understanding contained in the contradictions of the text – that the human heart is a mysterious thing. As You Like It ? review 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

Van Rompuy said what appeals to him in Haiku - which means "playful verse" - are references to nature and "the great wheel of life" in the Buddhist tradition. EU president publishes Haiku poetry book 2010-04-15T17:51:00Z

In a charming set of miniatures by Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Lisiecki likewise reveled in the playful contrasts between delicate lyricism and effortless virtuosity. In recital, Jan Lisiecki’s playing hints at an artist replete with potential 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z

Beanbag chairs are a vibrant and playful way to include children’s seating in the space. How to make a family room comfortable for toddlers and grown-ups 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

Her playful and sometimes spooky early work shows a strong Paul Klee influence. Art books for the holidays: Gauguin, Dal?, Maria Frank Abrams and more 2010-12-02T00:40:00Z

There are two playful outsiders, lighthearted grifters, who are unknown to each other. Jacques Rivette’s Thirteen-Hour Experimental Film 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

“Leather Forever” showcases some updated examples of playful glamour. Herm?s Tells a Playful Tale of Leather 2012-05-21T12:33:10Z

Fresh, playful and on-trend, this Brooklyn artist’s imaginative motifs are bold without being loud. Wallpaper is making a big comeback. Here’s how to choose, use and remove. 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

After four decades and 60 million albums sold, McEntire’s success remains rooted in her down-home, playful accessibility — and powered by innate business savvy and drive to succeed. Reba McEntire never needed to be the best. She simply had to want it most. 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

Her large, rounded features provide a haven; her tender eyes underpin the playful baby, holding his foot. Miseries of a stay-at-home dad 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

There was the crisp, scissoring action again, but it was warmed by a secret language among the dancers, who shared looks and playful gestures. Review | Crazy concept meets magical execution in ‘DEMO: Now’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

On their watch, I feel more playful, and less didactic and shouty than normal. ‘We’re never going to bed’: children rewrite the house rules 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z

As its playful title suggests, Barcott’s writing is casual and breezy, perhaps befitting his subject, but jarring at times. ‘Weed the People’: The highs and lows of legal marijuana 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

Only in Beethoven’s ebullient finale, with its playful rhythms and vigorous accents, did conductor and soloist finally arrive on the same musical page. Pianist and conductor diverge, clash during their BSO debuts 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

That’s the premise of this Netflix comedy, directed by Charles Stone III, that raises questions about cultural appropriation and stereotyping even as it progresses with the playful feel of a jokey teen drama. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Step Sisters’ and ‘The Number on Great-Grandpa’s Arm’ 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z

One, an explanation of how the Met’s chandeliers acquired their fanciful design, was playful, but most of the others were serious. The Metropolitan Opera Celebrates Itself 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Few writers are as nimble and playful with language; she writes her books in Japanese and German, depending on the mood she’s in. The Nobel Prize in Literature Takes This Year Off. Our Critics Don’t. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

That name is a playful nod to what turns out to be a mystery in progress — one that may never be fully solved. San Francisco Noir 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Some also show scenes of playful visitors engaging with the finished pieces as tactile elements of the open city. For years, Gerard Tsutakawa’s sculptures have shaped Seattle’s landscape. Here’s how — and what else is coming 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

“The playful side of me loves lip syncing. And the other side of me, the side that wrestles with still being on TikTok, just wants to pray and do my work.” Living the #ConventLife 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

If the old benchmark was a weekend trip to Puerto Rico, Ms. Johnson’s new formula is to offer playful party dresses for the price of a day trip to the Mohegan Sun. Reinventing Betsey Johnson 2012-12-19T23:32:46Z

Her inquisitive approach continued through the succession of variations: an elusive minor-mode one, a playful military march, a subdued variation rich with crawling counterpoint, and more, until the joyous finale. Review: Susanna Malkki Makes an Immediate Impression 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

As a prologue, it was playful, strange, militaristic, cool — an apt setup for a dance that showcases a bit of everything: from graceful, gliding swoops to one-armed balances that pull hip-hop back to tap. Review: At Fall for Dance Festival, Female Power 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

"He creates theatrical language at its most playful." Playwright David Ives finds his timing perfectly 2013-02-08T16:46:04Z

The playful label of this red screams marketing, explaining how it is named for a famous boxer and the 22,000-liter oak vat named for him. If a cookout’s in your plans, pick up these wines 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Gutiérrez, who is known for her clean lines and playful characters in her work, will be familiar to readers as the weekly illustrator for the magazine’s Shouts & Murmurs section. Luci Gutiérrez’s “Mindful Commuting” 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

In Williams’s illustration, Stuart’s clothespin-and-cigarette-box bed is irresistibly charming but rumpled and untidy, surrounded by the playful flotsam of a rambunctious kid’s bedroom. Garth Williams, Illustrator of American Childhood 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Eye Film Museum All of it was the product of Fischinger's own playful imagination. Oskar Fischinger: the wizard who angered Disney 2013-01-09T17:39:00Z

But there were also plenty of stories about Vance’s playful side. Washington’s media and political elite pay tribute to the late Jim Vance 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

It’s novel, playful and slyly ironic and requires total confidence. Designers reveal their most challenging paint colors and how to master them 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

Its cadre of small, relatable moments – singing in the kitchen, playing in the snow, a playful marriage quarrel – make Midnight Traveler quietly revelatory. The best movies of 2019 that you haven't seen 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

A playful formalist who’s frequently accused of making the same film over and over, he once again uses repetition compulsion here as both the subject and form of his movie. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: A Return Visit for a Director Fond of Repetition 2012-05-23T18:10:16Z

The second movement, a curious, playful scherzo with syrupy melodic bits leads to a dark, harmonically raw Adagio. Music Review: Yefim Bronfman Plays Works by Living Composers 2014-01-14T22:34:57Z

Tying the knot on Dec. 30, the California bride told BuzzFeed that they wanted their wedding to authentically capture the playful spirit of their personalities. Bride invites bridesmaids to sport their own wedding gowns to nuptials 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

With a massive sound from added brass and percussion at the start, this Five Pieces was less lightly playful and more Mahlerian — witty and ironic, but with martial heft. Review: The New York Philharmonic Brings Back the Standards 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

Rob Pruitt’s pink “Panda With Child,” a playful gift from Mr. Powers to his wife when she was pregnant, graces the landing at the top of the stairs. Art Was There, Through Courtship, Love and Labor 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

The Étude in F is so playful and crisp you might not realize how hard it is to execute the squiggly figures that leap high and low in both hands. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Perhaps thanks to its playful social media tactics, A24 has a presence in the wackiest corners of the Internet, an unusual feat for companies of its kind. How the indie studio behind ‘Moonlight,’ ‘Lady Bird’ and ‘Hereditary’ flourished while breaking Hollywood rules 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

The novella’s strange, shifting structure lends “Bonsai” a playful quality. For the Art of Love and the Love of Art 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

There's lots more in that playful vein at this new, music-heavy festival, with opportunities to dance, sing, dress up and generally do more than just sit and watch. This week's new film events 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z

It's stranded between self-awareness and naivete, between playful invention and going-through-the-motions listlessness. Close encounters of a tired kind 2011-06-19T21:20:00Z

He's clearly an experimentalist, yet in contrast to the high-concept productions of much new generation flamenco, aspects of his aesthetic seem close to the playful minimalism of the Judson choreographers of 1960s New York. Israel Galván: one of flamenco's great mavericks 2013-02-25T16:06:02Z

Catullus is playful, too, but more intense; the Elizabethan keeps lusty defiance in check. Poem of the week: My Sweetest Lesbia by Thomas Campion 2010-03-22T10:50:00Z

This is European art cinema at its most irresistibly playful. Berlin film festival 2021 roundup: the most impressive selection in years 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z

The pace is swift, the tone playful, the screenplay peppered with one-liners. | 'Machete': Growl, and Let the Severed Heads Fall Where They May 2010-09-02T20:53:00Z

It was a playful experiment with form, and a conversation with the past. Justin Peck and Collaborators Combine Gravitational Universes 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

Some told me that they, like cats, feel as though they are cute, playful and soft. Inside the Colorado Mansion where the kittens of BDSM run wild 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

A juggling show – but a brilliant one, playful, witty, absurd, and really rather moving. Edinburgh festival 2013: our critics' picks 2013-07-15T05:59:01Z

The juxtapositions are often playful, as in a picture where a crow holds in its mouth the strings to a bunch of bird-shaped balloons. In the galleries: Putting a fine point on colored pencil drawings 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

It has a playful bent: He frequently reserves a place at the table for his favorite actor, Bill Murray, and sometimes offers his handful of guests a joint as an amuse-bouche of sorts. This ‘burger pervert’ turned a fetish into a following. Now, can he make it last? 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

Measured, playful, with a tantalising pace that suggests a liking for Stewart Lee, Pilgrim starts by praising a “new favourite racial slur” he encountered online, then gently draws out its idiotic inarticulacy. Standup comedy - your videos 2013-06-04T13:27:00Z

In the “Mack the Knife” captured on “Darin At the Copa,” his voice sounds grittier than on the hit single, and his syncopation is more playful. Bobby Darin Who? Jonathan Groff Gets It Now 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

This commitment — playful but never frivolous — to fiction as a way of knowing creates a simultaneous effect of complexity and clarity. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

McTeer’s performance, also Oscar nominated, is generous, warm and alive with playful good energy. Albert Nobbs: Glenn Close's Quiet Man 2012-01-26T16:27:54Z

But Perl does persuade us that Calder, although inspired by isms — modernism, cubism, abstractionism, surrealism — somehow evaded their constricting clutches and pioneered new forms that evolved from playful to beautiful to monumental. The magical movement of Calder’s mobiles — and mind 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

We are also given a preface, an ambulatory and often playful meditation on history and forgetting that begins with the narrator’s visit to the cemetery at the center of a small fishing village. A Literary Catalog of Things Lost to History 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

But the playful, poetic imagination that distinguished that work is missing in this tonally uncertain drama about loss and damage. Theater Review: ‘7th Monarch,’ by Jim Henry, at the Acorn Theater 2012-06-25T22:46:52Z

Sure, Curtis was troubled by all of those things, but in Hook’s version there was also a playful and humorous side not seen by those on the outside looking in. An insider’s take on rise and fall of Joy Division 2013-03-20T20:16:16Z

The best submissions, like good sex, are playful and funny. A “G-rated” porn campaign: PornHub’s strangely SFW idea 2014-03-05T20:27:00Z

Even amid his opening number, a playful mash-up of “Summertime” and “Too Darn Hot,” many a well-heeled matron shrieked or moaned aloud for him. | Paulo Szot’s Outsize Broadway Grandeur 2013-08-06T18:51:02Z

She was challenging and playful as she asked students questions and answered theirs. Ketanji Brown Jackson on being a ‘first’ and why she loves ‘Survivor’ 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

The regular series directors Anthony and Joe Russo brought some of the same playful wit to the blockbusters they went on to oversee, including multiple “Avengers” movies. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Community’ 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

Ms. Crahay continues to use classic materials like feathers, felt and lace but in a playful way, so small silk flowers might pour out from under a boater’s ribbon or pearls festoon a headband. Designers of Desire: Laetitia Crahay at Maison Michel 2012-09-30T17:45:48Z

Every year its pastoral bliss high above Central Park is complemented by some sort of benign sculpture exhibition, usually three-dimensional works of formal decorum or playful ingenuity. Art Review: ‘The Roof Garden Commission: Imran Qureshi,’ at the Met 2013-05-16T19:09:59Z

“Investigating Grace” features Daniel Santos — who moves with liquid agility — as the main soloist in an alternately somber and playful work set to Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. Dance Review: Handbook on Elegance Takes Form and Flight 2011-08-10T22:26:58Z

Three years and some ambitious renovations later, Kinue, who goes by only one name for personal reasons, talks about embracing the home’s eccentricities to create a playful environment for their four children. House Tour: Millbrook, N.Y. 2011-04-28T21:00:23Z

Daytime is cinched by a gold belt with playful tassels. Traditional trumps trendy for the summer 2011 2010-09-22T20:30:00Z

But accessing his playful side is just as easy as it was 16 years ago when he let loose in some of the movie's most memorable scenes, including a truly unforgettable Rocky-inspired training montage. Michael Showalter on the Mature Side of Wet Hot American Summer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

I wanted to meet Eudora Welty, who I knew lived there and whose early, playful stories I loved. The New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Refuses to Sugarcoat History 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

Mr. Moss’s paintings, which hang in many of America’s sports halls of fame, pull from Futurism, Surrealism, Pointillism and Pop Art, but with a playful stroke. Donald Moss, Illustrator of Sports Art, Dies at 90 2010-05-26T05:45:00Z

Nicknamed the Mother of Museums and the Palace of Invention, the building is a playful space, “a circus tent made of bricks,” Goslins said. The Smithsonian is turning 175. It’s celebrating with robots, flying cars and hope. 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

This show is as powerful as it is playful. Art in Review: LOUISE LAWLER: ?Fitting at Metro Pictures? 2011-05-19T19:21:48Z

“Brilliant, intricate, and soulful music would come pouring out. Then he’d finish it off with a silly little flourish because he also had a playful, mischievous sense of humor and loved making people laugh.” Lewis Spratlan, Who Took Winding Route to Music Pulitzer, Dies at 82 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

But she began to reveal a playful, mischievous side, an anarchic impulse that, joined to her formidable timing and technique, has blossomed in the past 10 years or so. Film: That Unmistakable Streepness 2010-02-20T04:19:00Z

The Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco focuses on large-scale, playful installations, like a Ping Pong table with a pond in the center, and a car with its middle third surgically removed. What's On This Week Around the World 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

For many, it’s more like favoring Pepsi over Coke, suggests the artist in this playful show at Cross MacKenzie Gallery. Review | In the galleries: David X Levine uses pencils to put a new spin on an Old Master 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

They ended the Stravinsky group with an arrangement of the playful Scherzo from “The Firebird.” Music Review: Steven Beck and Miranda Cuckson at Bargemusic 2010-06-20T21:37:00Z

“When Them” felt young in the best way: playful and serious all at once, curious about itself and its surroundings. Dance Review | Katy Pyle and Jen Rosenblit: At St. Mark?s Church, Youth, Cheek and Crowd Surfing 2010-03-13T01:34:00Z

Though they might start with the main character feeling sad, afraid or angry, all the stories end in a positive, often playful, way, with the character in a better situation. ‘Black Boy Joy’ brings together 17 stories of positivity 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

After dinner, Lohan emerged changed — wobbly and happy, a playful smile on her face. Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie 2013-01-13T17:37:08Z

Becker’s art is intricate and rich at times, quick and playful at others. Three Y.A. Novels About the Challenges and Charms of Growing Up 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

Speaking of fish, I loved the Bergen Aquarium, at the end of the Nordnes peninsula, with its playful sea lions, shark tunnel, sparkling Norwegian piranhas, salmon and cod, and small, jewel-like tropical beauties. Norway in the offseason: Overcast and underappreciated 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Indeed, though he is often accused of being willfully esoteric in his films, he is at his least pretentious here in , his choice of similes in particular wonderfully humorous and playful. Ingmar Bergman, novelist 2013-02-17T19:00:00Z

Zombie’s most playful touch is rounding up character players like Wallace — E.T.’s “mom” — and Davison — Willard the rat’s “Dad” — for supporting roles. Zombies are the incompetent ‘Lords of Salem’ 2013-04-19T17:59:31Z

“There is a kind of swagger and daring, a playful ambitiousness and a dry wit that undercuts it all and prevents it tipping into pretentiousness.” How a French Novelist Turns the Tables on History 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

Once in the zone of her verbal style, Butler's words become almost addictive, such is their playful, radically political, fearless and thought-provoking pull on the reader. Judith Butler 2011-03-08T00:05:16Z

Liv Little, the magazine’s founder and editor-in-chief, looks suitably playful for an architect of media subversion, wearing a deep blue jumpsuit and running a hand casually over her shaved head. 'We are offering something people didn’t get before': inside gal-dem 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

The Doctor Octopus sequence feels playful and extravagant, with colorful, larger-than-life images that evoke the stylized look of a comic book. The Spell ‘Doctor Strange’ Is Missing: Sam Raimi’s Macabre Vision 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

He complimented all of us who worked with him, and he was a generous, playful colleague. ‘Child, I Trust You’: On Deadline With Bill Cunningham 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

This Onegin delights in being louche, playful, arms folded, casual rather than stiff. Eugene Onegin; La traviata – review 2013-02-10T00:06:16Z

That tinkly celeste and ubiquitous off tune piano make a welcome reappearance and give the recording its playful drive. Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

Androgynous, severe, mutating, stylish and playful, Grace Jones became an instant sensation in New York’s cutting-edge dance shrines. 15 Songs That Shook New York’s Queer Dance Floors in the 1970s and ’80s 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

Atsea, playful and youthful, is a dance for young women with a sole purpose: to show off. Living the Golden Life: DanceAfrica Welcomes Ghana to Brooklyn 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

Unpretentious and easygoing, his jigsaw-puzzle compositions are as playful and engaging as cartoons — and significantly more mysterious. Diving into Ryan Callis' shape-shifting 'Ocean Memories' 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

“Some,” the editors note, are “refined, even elegant, others crude, formal, playful, or mock-authoritarian.” Review | The art of protest 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

As for the Folger exhibition, it is playful and dodgy but touches deep with its miscellany, offering glancing encounters with Shakespeare’s trace through history. Museum Exhibitions at National Archives and the Smithsonian 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Almond’s writing is at turns playful and deadly serious, and he loves to move from snark to analytical insight and back to snark. Did the “The Daily Show” make us smarter voters or not? Two satire experts face off 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z

Snaps, despite its self-effacing title, is a record of six decades worth of acute observation, from the playful to the deeply serious. Snaps by Elliott Erwitt – review 2013-04-01T08:00:02Z

There’s more than a little witchcraft at work on this lovely and playful recording: Pianists play duets with each other, even though they are in different rooms and at different times when they do so. Reviews: Classical Music Albums 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

The story of an unconventional inventor, Commander Caractacus Pott, and the magical car he and his family rescue from “a broken-down little garage,” it is playful and yet full of suspense. Celebrating 50 years of 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

Kha uses playful artifice to get at an emotional truth: the fractured layering of identity. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

Simply their bodies, plus an infectious charm that begins with a typically playful subversion of the “turn-off-your-phone” announcement. Review | A winsome road to Paris in ‘Bon Voyage! A Happenstance Escapade’ 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

That might suggest a vision limited to surface only, and much of the work is indeed more playful than probing, concerned with his subjects' performance of their public personas. The personal, provocative on display in fall photo books 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

She’s less playful than the minimalist Barthelme, and less liquidly philosophical than Iris Murdoch. ‘Medusa’s Ankles,’ a Selection of A.S. Byatt’s Wildly Imagined Stories Across Three Decades 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

Good-time romp "Stars Tonight" and the playful, dusty barroom stomp of "Love's Looking Good on You" got everyone on their feet. Country. Rock. Stars. Lady Antebellum thrills WaMu audience 2010-10-26T18:53:00Z

This latest effort suggests aspects of his personality: reserved, curious, competitive, playful and overwhelmingly thoughtful. Beautiful songs about “dark, grotesque stuff”: The world according to Panda Bear 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z

The exchanges can be playful, stealthy or downright combative. Curious About Classical Music? Here’s Where to Start 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

It is a tradition just as rich as its American counterpart – and often more fantastical, playful and less macho. Sacré bleu! Why Franco-Belgian comic-book movies are more fun than Marvel and DC 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

Pine's work in 2009's "Star Trek" and "A Wrinkle in Time" showcase his devoted father side; combine that with the playful energy he brought "Wonder Woman" heartthrob Steve Rogers, and there's Egdin. We scouted "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" and can confirm that it's a true treasure 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

Film clips show President Kennedy sharing a hilariously playful moment with Benazir's father. 'Bhutto': A fascinating documentary about the late Pakistani leader 2011-03-03T21:01:04Z

The owners say their dresses are “sophisticated, yet fun, fresh and playful.” Brooklyn Bridal. It’s a Thing. And a Place to Find Your Dress. 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

Still, playful titillation aside, it was bold imagination and musical diligence that marked this company as one to watch. Music Review: ?The Judgment of Paris? by Morningside Opera - Review 2011-09-01T22:41:50Z

At first, the brothers engaged in playful taunting. “Untold: Jake Paul the Problem Child”: The 6 most eye-opening revelations from Netflix’s doc 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

But the collection also featured a more playful side, with some outfits covered in brightly-colored stars giving them something of a circus air. Saint Laurent makes a splash on water-soaked Eiffel Tower runway 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

Wolf, who serves as the narrator, is a simple but expressive puppet made of wood, cardboard and papier-mâché in this probing and playful exploration of family by Hansol Jung. ‘Wolf Play’ Review: What Keeps a Family From Falling to Pieces? 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

The playful yet ribald banter between the two repeatedly threatens to break out into something more vehement. Don’t apologize, Noah Galvin: Let’s applaud celebrities who dare to speak their mind, not tear them down 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

The jacket, adorned with dozens of gold tassels, was as majestically fussy as Michael Jackson’s, but with a more playful touch. Reinventing Alternative Rock in China 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

On the seventh floor, about two dozen Castle works await — quiet, playful and soot-and-spit sublime. Review: Reanimating an Autistic Artist With ‘Soot and Spit’ 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

On the Rhymesayer's artist page, Psalm One is surrounded by male artists in thoughtful, pensive, or playful poses. Nicki Minaj and the rise of the titillating female rapper 2010-04-13T08:46:00Z

Then a new wing devoted to 20th- and 21st-century design opened, offering yet another symbol of the city’s playful rejuvenation. 36 Hours in Bordeaux 2010-06-17T21:43:00Z

It's relentlessly nihilistic, in a way that grime, with its roots in UK garage clubs, and lyrical contrasts between aggression and more witty, playful tracks about partying and relationships, never has been. Rap responds to the riots: 'They have to take us seriously' 2011-08-12T17:15:46Z

Casting a playful eye on a serious topic — the relative invisibility of female artists in our culture — Ms. Cornand cannily keeps her subjects off camera and her lens on their feathered representatives. | 'The Red Birds': Friends in Avian Form 2010-04-20T23:53:00Z

Eating, on the other hand, reveals a more playful side to the talented but earnest chef I remember from CityZen. Kinship review: The welcome return of a favorite chef 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

The painting shows Camille Monet striking a playful pose and wearing a blond wig to emphasize her Western identity, according the the museum. Boston art museum cancels kimono event after claims of racism 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

There is nothing playful or campy in his villainy. | 'House of Cards': ‘House of Cards’ on Netflix Stars Kevin Spacey 2013-01-31T23:08:08Z

In a playful nod to the retired football star’s University of Tennessee jersey number and famed nickname, “Saloon 16” will open for business in 2020 in the Graduate Knoxville hotel, BroncosWire reports. Peyton Manning opening 'Western-inspired' restaurant in Knoxville 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

For the high-end apartment of Wade’s mother, Brook, “even though it’s supposed to be elegant, we asked, how playful can we make it?” How ‘Elemental’ Breathed Life Into Fire, Water, Earth and Air 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z

I always knew my father was loving and sweet and playful, but it’s still funny to me that he’s become so closely identified with the Dude. 'He didn't even pretend to let us win'… Growing up with the world's biggest stars, by their children 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

It can’t be easy for a company called 10 Hairy Legs to live up to the playful audacity of its name. 10 Hairy Legs Perform a Work by Doug Elkins 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

They felt rudely intrusive: not like escapes or pandering exhortations but, even at their most playful, urgent invitations to act. The Best Theater of 2017 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

Some of his oil paintings from the past two decades display much brighter hues, as well as playful cubist elements. His parents wanted him to run the farm, but he had other ideas 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

“He also had a silly, playful, mischievous side,” Mr. Goold said. Tim Pigott-Smith, Actor Who Put Prince Charles on the Throne, Dies at 70 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Snow was a prolific and playful artist, as well as a polymath of extraordinary versatility. Michael Snow, Prolific and Playful Artistic Polymath, Is Dead at 94 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

The number, which seems like an outtake from another movie, is a playful diversion in a series of skits. Movie Review: ?Where Do We Go Now?,? From Nadine Labaki 2012-05-10T23:24:34Z

Like much in the Op Art genre, which Servellon considers herself a part of, some layers of imagery play with angular lines and shapes, creating dense patterns and playful optical effects. Raven Servellon's 'Velvet Sunflower' is a trippy art party 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

As Pilobolus continues its 40th-anniversary season at the Joyce Theater, the group, which started in 1971 and is named after a fungus, is — by the looks of it — working hard to maintain its playful edge. Dance Review: Alone With Schubert and 2 Flying M.I.T. Robots 2011-07-19T20:54:16Z

I prefer the imaginative to the reportorial, the otherworldly to the naturalistic, the playful experiment to the serious undertaking. Review | Oh, the places you’ll want to go! Two new books offer the most magical of escapes 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

The mood is largely playful, adopting the various styles of American folk-rock cheerfully and unselfconsciously. Harper Simon: Harper Simon | Cd review 2010-04-01T21:50:00Z

Voluptuous beauties, over-60s, as well as male and female models from diverse racial background stepped out into the flashes of the camera sparkling in light, optimistic and playful couture designs. Race, age, weight: Valentino backs diversity in Paris show 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

“It’s playful and engaging and gives everyone something to remember the lunch by. Whenever anyone describes a meal they enjoyed, they don’t start with the food, they start with the where, the who, the how.” In the British Countryside, a Holiday Feast With Sofa-Shaped Butter 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

Every part of it swam with hesitant, playful creativity. The Virgin of the Rocks: Da Vinci decoded 2010-07-13T20:31:00Z

The closing Andantino was particularly striking: Ms. O’Connor shaped and characterized each variation thoughtfully, and the string players moved deftly through Mozart’s playful changes of spirit. Music Review: Bowing and Plucking to Honor a Festival 2011-01-16T22:09:24Z

By turns playful and fierce, Packer alters mercurially from a "woman warrior" like Joan of Arc to a bashful young Juliet to a despairing Lady Macbeth, to name but a few of the most familiar. Review: Captivating, eloquent 'Women of Will' 2013-02-04T18:11:11Z

There is an intrinsically French lightness to the decoration, which is more rococo than baroque — and more playful than either of those art forms. An Art Menagerie Touched With Magic 2010-03-29T15:27:00Z

Above all, Cabinet was committed to curiosity, and to its serious and playful expression across the arts and sciences. Things get curiouser and curiouser at the Turner Contemporary 2013-05-18T08:01:28Z

When, on "The Words That Maketh Murder", she sings, "Why don't I take my problems to the United Nations?" it's in playful tribute to Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues". PJ Harvey: Let England Shake ? review 2011-02-13T00:15:33Z

Herrera, who seems to never have a wrinkle in her skirt, not a hair out of place, has a playful side, too. Easy elegance, deceitfully simple, on NY runways 2011-09-12T20:18:12Z

The smartphone earned a place among the 12 finalists because of its status as a platform for countless mobile games and playful interactions, including sending GIFs and altering photos, hall of fame officials said. Smartphone, Matchbox cars among Toy Hall of Fame finalists 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

In truth, you could close your eyes and still feel the full hypnotic pull of this playful little drama from 1979, originally written for the radio. Review: David Mamet’s ‘Ghost Stories,’ Bedtime Tales With a Gunshot 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

He writes Mandel was, “brilliant, funny, charming, ruthless, inventive, playful, cruel.” Is Online Community Real, 'Virtual' Or Something Else? 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

Lucy’s Style Secret: Layer upholstered furniture with large textiles for a playful mix of patterns. New Vintage Style 2010-10-21T18:02:00Z

Instead of long meditations on what constitutes a home, she demonstrates the meaning of family through small actions: a snack retrieved from the kitchen, a playful dinner conversation, a gentle touch, a caring admonition. In Contemporary Trinidad, a Widow Rediscovers the Meaning of Home 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

But the kitchen backs up the liquid bread with a playful blend of contemporary recipes and traditional flavors from the region. Bites : Restaurant Report: Nota Bene in Prague 2012-09-07T15:32:45Z

Between the song's infectious, playful effortlessness and his evident self-belief, Green gives an impression of comfortable confidence, but that's a front he has worked hard to cultivate. Cee Lo Green: 'I'd do a lot more damage if I could' 2010-09-30T21:00:00Z

Other recent dramatic depictions seem almost playful by comparison. Stepping Into the Shoes of a Psychopath 2011-07-22T13:00:00Z

That doesn’t stop her from being playful, hedonistic or perverse when she chooses. Beauty Confronts Doom on Grimes’s ‘Miss Anthropocene’ 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

They reminded you of the playful spirit that the big beat injected into popular culture. Review: ‘Battle for the Airwaves,’ a Rock ’n’ Roll History 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

His playful staging brings a snazzy panache to the comic reversals of fortune and mistaken-identity gambits. A Lot of Opera Is Now Streaming. Here’s Where to Start. 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z

A playful picture book that celebrates black hair, showing little girls with dreadlocks, blowouts, braids and more. Fantastic books for the teens, toddlers and kids in between on your list 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

In his standup work and on “Mo,” Amer’s comedy is shot through with a sense of anxiety, sometimes playful, other times more serious. Mohammed Amer Is a Salad Bowl 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z

It was a bravura demonstration of her ability to twist and tame reality, both playful and chillingly violent at once. On the Campaign Trail with Cornelia Parker, the U.K.’s Official Election Artist 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

Nirvana’s sense of playful irony, which you could hear in its music, set the band apart from many of its doom-and-gloom peers in what would become known as the Seattle scene. Nirvana’s “Nevermind” Made, and Unmade, Alternative Culture 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Even if it’s a playful moment, it’s an ugly one and a painful one to watch. “Cocksucker Blues”: Robert Frank’s Suppressed Rolling Stones Documentary Comes to Film Forum 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

Come find out at the National Museum of Mathematics, whose free Family Fridays programs promote math understanding through playful activities. Spare Times for Children Listings for Aug. 5-11 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Ms. Bouder, 32, with her serene balances, steady turns and playful phrasing, is still electrifying after all these years. A Ballerina Goes From Baby Bump to High Jumps 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

Most of the songs the Shermans wrote - in addition to being catchy and playful - work on multiple levels for different ages, something they learned from Disney. 'Small World' songwriter Robert Sherman dies at 86 2012-03-06T17:06:42Z

Yet it’s also marked by a playful whimsy that falls short of measuring up to the variety that pulsed through 2001′s Discovery, or the groundbreaking dance exploration found within their fabled 1997 debut, Homework. Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories is Sleek, Bold 2013-05-22T14:35:33Z

Other sculptures involve playful manipulation of existing objects, like the melting cake plates held aloft by the bent fingers of jadeite ring holders in “Hands and Handkerchief.” Amber Cowan Gives New Life to Vintage Glass 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

His pavilions often seem to disappear into the sites, while fostering playful interactions between viewers and the landscape. Art Review: ‘Hedge Two-Way Mirror Walkabout,’ at the Met Museum 2014-04-29T21:35:08Z

This giddy production number, a playful attempt to initiate a dance craze like the Continental and the Carioca, rhymes the title with “casino,” “bambino,” “vino” and “scallopino.” Review: ‘All Dancing! All Singing! Irving Berlin in Hollywood,’ a Lighter-Than-Air Revue 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

But the playful and vibrant design — four red letters arranged in a square, the O tilting to the right — is ubiquitous, and so is its message: “Amor.” Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Names Ellen Salpeter as Director 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Their sculptural forms and projected images are potent and playful, the spawn of a “neural network” that synthesized a quarter-million photographs of art exhibitions. 5 exuberant Seattle-area art shows you won’t want to miss 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

The music is Mr. Peck’s secret weapon: While he still works from a point of structure, the vibrant score gives this playful dance mystery and magnitude. Review: City Ballet’s ‘Americana x Five’ Offers a Comforting Mix 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

Wacky, surreal, insanely playful, "Mood Indigo" is a film that believes that too much is not enough. Michel Gondry's 'Mood Indigo' is wildly inventive 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

A particular challenge was how to handle the character of Jinx, who is playful and colorful, and a loose cannon. ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Beats and the Universe of ‘Dune’: What ‘Arcane’ Is Made of 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

Characteristically, she transformed her struggle into art: As she slowly learned to walk again with the help of a cane, she created a series of playful animal sculptures with "balance" as their theme. 'A Not So Still Life': Ginny Ruffner documentary draws you in 2011-07-21T19:27:04Z

European, Asian and African influences mingle in playful beauty in the open, well-lit living spaces. Lord Leighton: a better decorator than artist? 2010-05-26T10:53:00Z

You don’t have to participate in “The Human Symphony,” a playful, patchy and compassionate show conceived by Dylan Marron, a member of the New York Neo-Futurists. ‘The Human Symphony,’ From the New York Neo-Futurists 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

This playful exchange between dancers, singers and drummers is the rhythmic backbone of Afro-Boricuas here. Bomba: The Enduring Anthem of Puerto Rico 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

Then, as Cohen and Versace entered into improvised dialogue, they became increasingly playful, with Mashiach and Pinciotti following suit and building to a reprise of the giddy duet, this time with piano and bass backing. At the Hamilton, clarinetist Anat Cohen and her quartet explode with intensity 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z

And the playful script, by Alice Victoria Winslow and Ron Bass, offered an opportunity, Cracknell said, “to speak to a new audience who maybe doesn’t know Austen.” ‘Persuasion’ Director Thinks Jane Austen Will Be Just Fine 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

Gregarious, open and confident, Mr. Musk is a lot of fun to hang around with, a playful counterpart to his quirky, brilliant brother, with whom he remains very close. Kimbal Musk Wants to Feed America, Silicon Valley-Style 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

Her voice is an intimate whisper, her phrasing defined by her West Kentucky accent, and the image itself is both playful and painful. True Love Can Leave Traces. S.G. Goodman’s Detailed Songs Do, Too. 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

This little piece of paradise, however, finds a great artist communing with eternity in the most playful, airy spirit imaginable. We're all going on a ... 2011-07-30T23:04:12Z

And Solange’s voice is sure-footed and playful, confident that the music will follow her every whim. Solange Defies Pop Expectations on ‘When I Get Home’ 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

Berendt also noted that while Chablis could be playful and humorous, “she had a very tough inner core.” The Lady Chablis, Transgender 'Midnight' Star, Dies Aged 59 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Wall art, like a playful interpretation of a Hindu god, is also for sale. Foraging : A New Delhi Market for Savvy Shoppers 2014-01-31T18:53:06Z

But for all its playful, pianists-just-wanna-have-fun spirit, Tan says the fast-growing world of “toy” music is just as serious and meaningful as anything in her more “grown-up” repertoire. Margaret Leng Tan reigns over a toy piano renaissance

Live, however, the tracks from her debut album, Songs for the Ravens, are given a more playful spin with Baenziger introducing each one with carefree anecdotes and drunken psychobabble. New music: Sea of Bees ? Sidepain 2011-03-04T11:56:48Z

Photograph: Tristram Kenton The dedicatedly avant-garde Katie Mitchell astonished many last year with her playful production of The Cat in the Hat. Beauty and the Beast - review 2010-12-02T00:20:00Z

But he didn’t sound like a rookie; over a hard-hitting small band, his phrasing was bold, enthusiastic and playful. Little Richard: An Ecstasy You Couldn’t Refuse 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

Fiasco Theater, a theatrical troupe created by graduates of the Brown University/Trinity Rep M.F.A. acting program, deploys some of the same playful simplicity that distinguished its touted off-Broadway production of Shakespeare's "Cymbeline." Imagination at play in a simple but joyful 'Into the Woods' 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

The work is alternately playful and somber, with a firm grounding in the austere medieval troubadour and plainsong traditions. Music Review: Stockhausen’s ‘Freude,’ by Chamber Music Society 2012-10-19T23:32:59Z

“I wanted a playful take on a suit.” Who Knew? For Red Carpet Trends, Look North 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

But no one should mistake her soft, playful tone for submissiveness. On Her Debut Album, Noname Is a Sly Hip-Hop Maverick 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

While on a playful stroll with Will, Abby gets hit by a bus, and dies, but the baby, Dylan, lives. “Life Itself” Is Excruciating, Ill-Conceived, and Mainly About Death 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

And, even if the piece has some of the qualities of the "whimsy-cake" referred to in the text, Louise Hill's sparkling production reminds one of Barrie's playful ingenuity and creates some astonishing reverberations. Quality Street ? review 2010-12-06T22:15:00Z

This spirited and formally innovative work is also marked by moments of playful humor. In Protest or Celebration, Four Poets Evoke a Sense of Endings 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

Drinks and Wine Cocktails are playful but solidly built; the concise wine list is full of good choices, most of them French. Restaurant Reviews: Noreetuh and the Eddy in the East Village 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Her playful new version opened at the Chichester Festival Theater, in southeast England, on Saturday. Jane Austen’s Unfinished Novel Comes to the Stage 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

I also like things that are playful, but in a really smart way. A Young Collector Continues the Family Tradition in SoHo 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

With its metafictional bounties and playful genre bent, “One Cut” offers a conceit ripe for the picking. ‘Final Cut’ Review: A Feeble Rise of the Living Dead 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z

By turns playful, aggressive, experimental, abstract and conceptual, the sounds accompany, confront, prolong and reinforce the visual works. In Transit Blog: Champagne House Outside of Paris Hosts Sound-Themed Art Show 2011-11-15T11:00:11Z

It’s from his “Kreisleriana,” brilliantly crafted yet elusive music that seems at once playful, dangerous, waltzing and jumpy. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

They represent a wide variety of communication strategies, some threatening, others playful: “Small encounter, great danger,” reads one poster from 1949, which shows a man and woman dancing in an ominous shadow. Pandemics Get Forgotten. But Not at This Museum. 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

So we’ve talked about establishing the relationship between Tyshawn and I, and having a more playful element to open it, creating a more welcoming space. Reimagining Josephine Baker’s Music in the Era of Black Lives Matter 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

The attitude was there, the hits were there and the choreography was playful and perfect. Judges show their claws on "SYTYCD" 2010-07-01T12:01:00Z

The magical tales are all exuberant and slightly playful, shading toward goodwill, happy endings and lessons learned. Jeanette Winterson’s 12 Christmas stories are a magical holiday treat 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

The former, made famous by N.W.A., often turns violence into the subject of alternately playful and dark-minded boasting; the latter mode offers political commentary on the problem of urban violence, among other social issues. “Atlanta” and Vince Staples and a New Hip-Hop Sensibility 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

This failure of journalism and accountancy did have one upside: It inspired Jasmine Lee-Jones’s vicious, playful, indignant work, a Royal Court Theater production being presented at the Public Theater. At Under the Radar, Stories Unfold via Sexts, Tweets and Puppeteers 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

Deleski explained she loves everything about the holiday, from the gory horror movies to the playful costumes. Halloween-loving couple to marry at 'haunted' New Jersey prison that doubles as wedding venue 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

Both of them used the word “playful” to describe their methods, but Mr. Urbach’s underlying thesis is earnest. Lots of Wine, but None to Drink 2010-12-03T05:39:00Z

He was a master at channeling the deep pain of loss, of course, but was equally convincing when he was playful, coy, seductive, perplexed or celebratory. B.B. King remembered by musical peers: 'What struck me was the kindness' 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

But that doesn’t mean they don’t jab at each other in the playful way of puppies colliding at the dog park. Please Like Me: this millennial comedy is more than just the Australian Girls 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

Like their date, it was both playful and romantically ambiguous. He wanted snarky. She was sunny. He was still charmed. 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

There are, however, plenty of songs, alternately playful and melodic or faintly gothic and haunted. This week's new live music 2012-05-25T23:05:17Z

This playful hard-bop classic from Jimmy Heath is usually taken at a medium-fast tempo, with the song’s jerky structure making the musicians feel like they’re playing atop the pedals of an elliptical. The Playlist: Thom Yorke’s Chilling Ballad, and 13 More New Songs 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

Like its forebear, it features—in Reubens’ words—”almost no plot,” and its playful protagonist looks much as he did then, save for an extra lick of makeup. Pee-wee Herman Is Back and He Hasn't Aged a Day 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

“Don’t Quit Your Day Job” at Hasted Kraeutler, a photography gallery in Chelsea, is an unusually playful, if also fraught, example of the form: It delves into the artistic ambitions of art dealers themselves. Art Review: The Art and Heart of the Dealer 2011-08-04T22:07:12Z

Not so nice to see Frisky all playful and happy post-Corky burial. ‘The Night Manager’ Episode 5: Is Roper Going Full Villain? 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

Breaking the Mold: During her final year at Anahuac University in Mexico, Ms. Elias experimented with spontaneous and playful materials like spaghetti, bubble gum and glitter to construct architectural models. A Mexican Jewelry Maker Who Channels ’90s Nostalgia 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Jordan’s approach suggested that perhaps this piece is not as playful as it might seem. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Major Return Played Safe 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Symphony Untuxed: Seattle Symphony will reprise the kind of playful, casual program it brought to the festival last year. Ken Jennings, John Waters join Bumbershoot lineup 2012-06-12T17:58:45Z

The harmonies are labyrinthine, the melodies uplifting, the production both chameleonic and playful — endless possibility with the musicianship to back it up. The Playlist: Desiigner and Fergie Aren’t Done Just Yet 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

“Cat cam” sequences, showing Bob’s visual perspective, have a playful whimsy. Review: ‘A Street Cat Named Bob’ Helps His Owner Detox 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

And it’s not just the china and the fabrics but also the rooms and bars and lobbies; each is a playful, whimsical riot of patterns and colors, fabrics and pictures and stuff. In Praise of Whimsical English Design 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

"The Seventh Art in the Sanatorium" is one of the more serious pieces in the collection, though it, too, has playful touches. Poem of the week: The Seventh Art in the Sanatorium by Heather Hartley 2010-11-22T13:27:00Z

In this video, he narrates a scene from his new film, where a playful lake swim turns into something much darker. ArtsBeat: Anatomy of a Scene: Video of ‘Stranger by the Lake’ 2014-01-23T18:36:03Z

A playful and cozy mix of vintage 1920s and Art Deco styles, the place offers seasonal comfort food including a smoked Cheddar burger and Longhorn rib-eye steak with Stilton mac and cheese. East London Goes Bohemian-Chic, but Stays Quirky 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

The 2016 sported a playful label, while the 2017 is more restrained, though still signaling a wine apart from the stuffy traditions of Burgundy. This $15 red from Cotes du Rhone is the best value for this week’s patio (or stoop) sipping 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

It's a great example of a band being playful and inventive rather than self-serious. Inspired by `Imposter,' 5 stylish documentaries 2012-07-13T03:16:04Z

And the dilemma for his central character, James, in this poignant and playful drama for the National Theatre of , is that even the words are disappearing. Somersaults ? review 2011-03-22T18:55:00Z

“I wanted the set to evoke my experience with the archives, finding a lot of playful details,” said Ms. Clark, who has succeeded in making the Chloé woman both fun and perpetually young. Fashion Review: Chloé at 60: Forward and Back 2012-10-01T18:49:38Z

She was also back again in 1995 when a new cast was assembled for “The Brady Bunch Movie,” a playful spoof of the original show. 'The Brady Bunch' Mom Florence Henderson Has Died 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

This book is very playful, but also challenges the reader in unexpected ways to be curious, to be forgiving and to be open. "I don't toot glitter": Kristin Chenoweth on embracing her failure, anger and questions for God 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

For the last three decades, Panahi, now 62, has made playful, smart and politically bold movies that ingeniously meld day-to-day realism about Iran with sly meta-cinematic perspectives. What to Know About Jafar Panahi, the Imprisoned Iranian Filmmaker 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

Bannister also pushed the tempo of the second movement so fast that the scherzo felt more vengeful than playful, making the hand crossings in the trio a little awkward. Pianist Tanya Bannister at the Phillips Collection

Whether that was playful or indulgent depended on your perspective. Music Review: Peter Gabriel and Orchestra at Radio City Music Hall 2010-05-03T23:48:00Z

But MoMA could have done a lot more with this playful Surrealist pastime. Art Review: ?Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration? at MoMA 2012-03-29T22:25:34Z

The W was the most playful hotel around. Showing Off With the Hotel Flagship 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

My mother was witty and verbally playful and really kept me on my toes. This Week in Fiction: Thomas McGuane 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

And indeed, Millay’s best work — with its coy rhymes, bravado and playful sexual politics — deserves a contemporary reassessment. In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Diaries, the Private Life of a Celebrity Poet 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Once she establishes a playful relationship with the crowd, she shifts from teasing to confrontational. 3 Savvy Comics Who Shine Where Sex and Politics Intersect 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z

"Kosmaj Toy," a playful large red sculpture of Lego bricks, sold within 10 minutes of the fair's opening, she said. ArtsBeat: At Art Basel Miami Beach, Around-the-Clock Offerings 2012-12-10T00:28:52Z

The narration has the pace and inevitability of a scherzo, even its ominous moments told with a playful fluidity and irony. Tempting Fate With a Season of Romance, Sex, Art and Destiny 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

On “None of My Jelly Roll,” from a 1963 recording, Barrett sings an old blues lyric full of playful double entendre and shows off her rolling barroom piano style. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love New Orleans Jazz 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

The album opens with the bright and playful “Music for a Sushi Restaurant,” replete with horns, a gummy bass line and surprising bursts of stacked vocals. Harry Styles Is Still a Dreamy Cipher on His Third LP, ‘Harry’s House’ 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

The albums were smart, fearless, disruptive, playful, raw, dense with ideas and — as proved by “Paper Planes,” heard in “Slumdog Millionaire” — catchy. Critics? Choice: CDs by M.I.A. and Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse 2010-07-11T22:31:00Z

Part of the reason for this is that people are downright playful with English. This Is Where the Word 'Dad' Comes From 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z

Some find this #playful, and others find it #irritating, but it has its uses in condensed media like Twitter. Don’t p@nic 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Both entries in their “Blackout” album series, released in 1999 and 2009, were playful and strongly produced; another volume would be welcome. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Nov. 21-27 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

I asked him if he owned his plot, and a playful smile crept across his face. T Magazine: The Coast of Utopia 2011-09-30T14:00:14Z

As you walk in, a playful rattan sea urchin pendant lamp leads you down the hall toward the living area and the ocean. Ocean view, sleeps 20: A family getaway gets rebuilt to fit three generations 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

The EPs brought Parks an international audience for a playful, sometimes vertiginous style that she forged on her own, working largely alone. Sudan Archives Is Making R&B Deeper and Stranger 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

Harvard Grad: My comment was meant to be playful. Perspective | Ask Amy: Friendship has great benefits and considerable drawbacks 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z

But she knew what she was doing: These works share a playful thematic thread and some intriguing musical resonances. Review: Susanna Malkki Returns to the New York Philharmonic 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

Everybody knows now: goofy, playful comedy and jovial chat, plus his powerhouse band, The Roots. An anniversary for Jimmy Fallon, plus ice cream 2011-03-03T01:57:18Z

Some people think he's like Jack the Ripper, just pure evil," says Bogar."But he's capable of being sensitive, witty and playful, as well as dangerous. Get ready for a Mack attack, Seattle: Here comes 'Threepenny Opera' 2011-02-12T01:12:03Z

His writing was playful and strange, and he clearly didn’t take things too seriously or fear for his reputation if he messed around with tradition. Have personal essays gotten too personal? 2013-03-17T17:00:00Z

“My clothes are very loose and playful, and ready for whatever I need to do, and I think that is very much Puck: She is always up for anything.” The many sides of Puck come out in three versions of ‘Midsummer’ 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

What this new version adds is a playful ingenuity and great spirit, both of which complement Shakespeare's powerful storytelling. Henry V 2010-09-26T21:00:00Z

What might be seen as garish or gauche most of the year takes on a more playful, festive tone around the holidays. Small-space living: No room for a Christmas tree? Embrace the unexpected. 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

But she never did meet again the playful, handsome boy from Mississippi – although she believes she got a Christmas card. Elvis's mystery blonde in classic 1950s photograph The Kiss identified 2011-08-08T19:04:20Z

With the fifth string, the virtuoso difficulties are much more manageable, and Haimovitz sounds almost playful. Two ways of looking at Bach’s cello suites 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

Ms. Rosenblit, who marries conceptual ideas to a vivid sense of theater, is a playful contrarian. Review: In ‘Clap Hands,’ the Rhythm Is Flirtation 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Hancock dedicated a spontaneously improvised piece - with lots of classical influences - to his Belgian friend, and then Thielemans joined him for a playful free-form duet loosely derived from Miles Davis' "Blue and Green." Musician friends celebrate Thielemans' 90 years 2012-09-30T03:04:08Z

After tour, it was time to get serious about the album, but he wasn’t having the same “creative fun” he had writing his more playful “Ambaum” mixtape. Travis Thompson gets real about mental health, dark side of success on pivotal new “YOUGOOD?” 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Her point of view is clear, honest and playful. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Vocals 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

If Riley relished Mirren's being playful, he sounds less enamoured with the project he has just finished. Sam Riley shot to fame as the doomed Ian Curtis in Control. Now he's playing creepy Pinkie in Brighton Rock 2011-01-12T08:00:03Z

When Diana Yen and I got matched up to create an item for the snack break at Cherry Bombe Jubilee, Diana wanted something playful, something visual. The most beautiful smoothie I've ever seen 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

The piece made playful references to friends and mentors associated with the philharmonic, including architect Frank Gehry, who designed the Walt Disney Concert Hall where the group performs, and former conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. Steven Stucky, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of intricate musical wit, dies at 66 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

Inescapably playful and undeniably serious, George Bernard Shaw’s 1905 “Major Barbara” pits youth against age, poverty against wealth, faith against armored tanks. 'Major Barbara' Is Revived at the Pearl Theater 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

While all of the album’s songs are lively and playful, the one that leaps from the lot is “Where Was the Word,” a popping, candy-sticky anthem livened by snares and a constant rise. Preview: Julia Massey trio at the Croc to showcase kids’ music for adults 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

At once sharp and exceedingly playful, “Office” registers as up to the minute because of China’s economic turmoil. Review: In ‘Office’ by Johnnie To, Ups and Downs of Business 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

The ample selection on offer — drawings, sculptural objects made of cardboard, paper and string, as well as the lesser pigmented works — still allows for playful looking and comparing. Soot, Spit and Paper: James Castle’s Transfixing Worlds 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

The Lego figures are rendered with playful rigor; their limited movements and expressions generate some amusing sight gags. Review: ‘The Lego Ninjago Movie’ Sticks to the Instruction Manual 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

The son of a Sudanese research psychologist who studied at the University of Chicago, Malik grew up in Hyde Park as the playful and intuitive youngest child. Families help suspects flee, face no charges 2011-11-01T23:56:40Z

Modern and playful, four eateries and a spa on-site. Chicago has 3 new spaces for adults to release their inner children 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

“The Friday, I never saw him so supremely cheerful — his manner was even playful,” Mary Lincoln wrote to a friend months later. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination: Great joy, then a gunshot 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

The introduction of a relative who connects with our heroine in a special way is tender and playful. A 'Sookie Stackhouse' junkie comes clean 2010-05-05T22:34:00Z

The bills typically focus on the more adventurous, less traditional end of the jazz spectrum — playful, experimental, more appropriate for noisy rock clubs than formal jazz venues. Sounds Outside brings jazz to the people ? free and outdoors 2010-07-15T21:27:00Z

Jabbing away at the box with a cursor causes the container to evolve, gradually turning it into a charming and elaborate robot, brimming with playful mysteries. Browser games round-up 2012-07-21T23:05:41Z

But Sonnier keeps these impressive works at least as playful as they are earnest. Keith Sonnier's neon drawings open portals to another place 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

She looks shy but a little playful, almost as if she’s keeping a secret. Do Androids Dream of Being Featured in Portrait Competitions? 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

It's all Halloween-ish to me — shadow-y, playful — and as Seattle's current late-blooming summer turns to fall, I'm hearing "Hidden House" as an autumn record. Autumn pop via Tacoma: download Jeane's "Hidden House" 2011-09-13T18:01:05Z

Morning routines — first sips of coffee, reading of newspapers — are given a playful, surreal spin: What's Kinoshita doing under the table? Home is where the toaster, couch and gymnastic tussles are, in UMAMI performance's 'home | bodies' 2010-08-05T21:58:00Z

The entire cast and the writers were incredibly creative and playful. Kathleen Turner on her soap opera days: “My character was so incredibly dumb” 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z

Is it different to work with Jarmusch when he’s in this archer, more playful mode? | Tilda Swinton 2014-03-11T19:00:39Z

"It was a playful way of implementing a biomimicry principle – trying to emulate a process in the natural world," says Collet, adding that they managed to produce 0.6 volts of electricity per piece of tapas. Textile futures: the living shoe and the strawberry plant that grows lace 2013-01-23T15:57:00Z

Archival clips and playful interstitial animation offer relief from the classroom shtick, and a couple of mock animated commercials are especially effective. "GhettoPhysics" an awkward but sharp-eyed mashup 2010-10-06T01:14:00Z

Not Until We Are Lost is playful and quietly haunting, and it's at Circomedia in Bristol from tonight until Tuesday as part of the fabulous Mayfest. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-05-17T14:35:33Z

Despite the evident humor in the film, Cronenberg on Monday continued his penchant for playful evasions in which he conceded little to reporters who posited he was trying something different. Cannes: Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars, a (sort-of) Hollywood satire 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

Even a brief dip into his bagatelles — short, playful pieces that he unveiled last year in weekly concerts, featuring a variety of ensembles and styles — leaves your head spinning: exhilarated, exhausted. A John Zorn Weekend — 10-Hour Marathon Concert Included 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

This book retells the ninth-century Old Irish poem “Pangur Ban,” a monk’s simple reflections on his companionship with his cat and the parallels between his scholarly pursuit of knowledge and the cat’s playful hunting. The New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2016 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

This is the mood in the wings: manic, playful, the actors being self-consciously mannered and stagey. Wouldn't it be loverly? Behind the scenes at My Fair Lady in Sheffield 2013-01-13T00:05:36Z

In his recent “Arena,” he staged a playful and perverse three-hour pageant at the Brooklyn performance space Jack, swathing himself and his dancers in ribbon, foil and fabrics. Your Week in Culture: Jay-Z, Eugene O’Neill and ‘Princess Bride’ in Theaters Nationwide 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

That mastery is displayed very differently, with playful insouciance, in “Pas./Parts,” a dazzling cascade of solos, duets, trios, quartets and ensemble pieces that shows the company as a post-“Middle” generation. Critic’s Notebook: William Forsythe Revival at Paris Opera Ballet 2012-12-28T21:15:47Z

Yet of all the gamification infusing the travel industry, some of the most playful experiences can be found in the hallowed halls of museums. The Getaway: Let’s Play: Making Travel a Game 2013-05-31T18:13:13Z

He began drawing early, prompted by doodling games he played with his mother, a playful side of her that he captures in “Breakdowns.” Art Spiegelman on Life With a ‘500-Pound Mouse Chasing Me’ 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z

For Payakan’s more playful moments, however, the inspiration came from seals, particularly their expressive tails. Creating the Exiled Sea Creature of ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z

Then the music would scamper off on dazzling individual tangents: playful, willful tempo fluctuations, thickets and inundations of dissonance, wry quotations, pensive melodic interludes. Music Review: Chucho Valdés and Gonzalo Rubalcaba at Carnegie 2012-12-05T22:57:47Z

He can be playful, but he doesn't push it. Sun shines on Hollywood Bowl guest conductor Ludovic Morlot 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Orcas in the wild are highly social animals, gregarious and playful, whose world revolves around their family pods. Free Lolita! The remarkable story of a remarkable whale held captive for four decades 2014-04-06T10:58:00Z

Child and Family Services Agency, kept by the Best family, praised Mayo and Veronica’s parenting and described the twins as happy and playful. A seven-year search for justice 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

And lastly, there's the playful and unconventional look, which basically means men who strayed away from the usual black tuxedo. Here are the hottest looks from the Oscars champagne carpet, from Rihanna to the Daniels 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

A few moments later, during an expressionless daze of interstitial shredding, he bent a note on his guitar, superimposing a playful scribble onto an otherwise stoic moment. Review | In chaotic times, Mizmor’s heavy metal is a model of composure 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

Every year that goes by, that I’m recovering a little more and shedding my armor from getting through high school, I am actually much more playful and, yes, girlie. ArtsBeat: The Lady Is a Champ: Eliza Dushku Goes a Few Rounds With Fight Night Champion 2011-02-25T14:50:18Z

The book, made up of a series of poems, touches on family and the nature of memory and storytelling in playful, thought-provoking ways. Finalists for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature

“Maniac” is as playful and vibrant as that series was gothic and dark, lit in neon pink and electric blue, borrowing aesthetics from Japanese design and the “late ’70s electronic toys” section of eBay. Review: ‘Maniac’ Is a Hallucinatory, Emotional Dream Machine 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Their playful exchange gained intensity by growing quieter and quieter, until it seemed that the entire audience was holding its breath. Review: Paco Peña‘s Troupe Flaunts Its Inventive Flamenco Style at Town Hall 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

There is humor and a huge sense of playful humanity.” Style: Outsider Art Meets Fashion at Selfridges 2011-09-05T13:01:04Z

The versatile album has so many highpoints, including the Fela-flavored “Dance or Die,” the playful “Tightrope,” the groovy “Locked Inside” and the addictive “Faster.” Associated Press’ album of the decade: Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

“In our minds it’s playful, you know. I don’t know if that sounds ignorant but that’s really where it came from,” he said. The Morgan Wallen Conundrum 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

The shallow music does limit the dance’s depth, but it doesn’t squelch Mr. Moultrie’s playful wit and uncommon skill at sustaining formal continuity. Review: Dance Theater of Harlem Regains Its Footing 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, some of the work feels like it reinforces stereotypical roles for young Latinos _ but the women manage to stretch out and be poetic, playful or pensive. Museum & Gallery Listings for Sept. 11-17 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

Still, this playful, patriotic, martial costume enlivens the brick walls and blank sky that recede into the background, and calls attention to our subject’s resourcefulness—and his individuality. The Masks in Venezuela and the Pathos of Protest Art 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

Put another way, how much are you interested in the question because of the playful thought experiments it requires, versus the search for a Final Answer? Q. & A.: Jim Holt on Why the World Exists 2012-07-18T14:09:41Z

One thing that was definitely true of the early Beastie Boys was the playful, obnoxious persona. The Beastie Boys Put Down the Mic and Pick Up the Pen 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

The best beat on the album so far – one of the first with any energy at all – and Jay-Z's most relaxed, playful verse are given over to a 50-second interlude. Magna Carta Holy Grail – a first-listen review 2013-07-04T14:23:37Z

As Bowman himself might write, in his playful, interjection-dotted way: Let’s back up. An Encyclopedic Novel Intent on Reliving the Baby Boomers’ Touchstone Moments. All of Them. 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

In doing so, it tackles universal themes including art, sex, family and existential loneliness in a way that’s simultaneously playful and profound. 10 Best Books of 2012 2012-11-30T16:00:09Z

In the days since his death at 92, I’ve been thinking more about his playful spirit than the generally esteemed intellectual qualities of his mind and work. An Appraisal: Scott Rothkopf, Chief Curator at the Whitney, Recalls Ellsworth Kelly 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

The lyrics “takes you down” are written in bold black letters on the stairs — a playful allusion to the song. Is Leonard Cohen the New Secular Saint of Montreal? 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

Her subsequent interactions with Ghomeshi — friendly radio interviews and playful emails in the years that followed — could be used to undermine her credibility and attack her character. Sarah Polley Is OK With Oversharing 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

Then he ups the ante, showing how these simple gestures, with subtle modification, are used to coax a fluid, lyrical performance; a playful reading; or an urgently dramatic interpretation from an orchestra. 2010-02-15T16:59:00Z

It’s interesting to see how playful my nephew is at six, shooting his own movies. Snap happy 2013-05-19T18:30:00Z

Berendt also noted that while Chablis could be playful and humorous, "she had a very tough inner core." Lady Chablis, transgender 'Midnight' star, dies in Savannah 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

He was as serious and playful as White’s text. Garth Williams, Illustrator of American Childhood 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

It helped that the actor got to Green, too — albeit in a much more playful manner. ‘Liaison’: Vincent Cassel and Eva Green Simmer as Global Tensions Boil 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z

He then returned to shooting the streets of Philadelphia, where he lived, but in a more playful, lyrical manner. Ray K. Metzker, Art Photographer, Dies at 83 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Wale almost never presents himself as this contented, this playful, this acutely aware of himself or where he’s standing. At top of charts, Wale feels underrated — not that there’s anything wrong with that 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

Hancock and Elias engaged in some playful four-handed piano playing as the audience sang and clapped along with the musicians. Musician friends celebrate Thielemans' 90 years 2012-09-30T03:04:08Z

Later, when kids are off to college, we may rediscover a relaxed, playful, golf-loving side. I’m at a crossroads 2012-09-20T00:00:00Z

But at the same time, she does have a playful sense of humor and goes with the flow. "Dumplin'" star Danielle Mcdonald on new opera comedy & pursuing her dreams: "I never had a Plan B" 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

His playful mood was highlighted by his own outfit - Costelloe wore a jacket and tie with dark slacks, accented by white Converse sneakers. Dresses go flouncy, slinky at London Fashion Week 2010-09-17T17:18:00Z

In the right hands, the uniforms of combat are suddenly neutralized, even made playful. Fashion Review: Italian Men?s Fashion Week Shows in Milan Go Conservative 2012-01-18T23:53:35Z

There is a heady mix of insouciant charm, playful irony and risible pretentiousness throughout the Museum of Modern Art’s new Bjork retrospective, which opens on Sunday. Why is MoMA featuring an exhibit showcasing Bjork’s pretentiousness? 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

The Rangers approached his material with playful but studied grace. Steve Martin plays banjo but still cracks wise 2011-07-22T17:13:04Z

Bruce’s work was often edgier, and always black and white; Jean’s is more playful, and frequently full-color. How are these things not like the others? 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

And the chief virtue of the new staging now at Forum Theatre is a playful and precise acting style that director Michael Dove’s ensemble absolutely nails. Backstage with Jesus and Hitler in Ruhl’s epic ‘Passion Play’ 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Cohen is, first and foremost in many minds, a poet, as evidenced in his highly evocative imagery throughout, whether in the service of grim biblical apocalypse or playful sensuality. Leonard Cohen's New, Beautiful Old Ideas 2012-01-31T14:30:28Z

Ms. Varda’s modesty is evidence of her mastery, just as her playful demeanor is the expression of a serious and demanding aesthetic commitment. Review: Agnès Varda and JR Travel in the Present, Glancing at the Past 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

But researchers have found that crows are not only playful and mischievous but also intelligent. Crows are often thought of as scavengers. But they are also smart and playful. 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

It’s a literally colorful and playful attempt to portray battlefields of artistic ambition and political struggle. Review: In ‘Chagall-Malevich,’ Two Painters Clash in Revolutionary Russia 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

He felt he'd ended on a note "both joyous and depressed, playful and serious." Lingo dance company's 'Glimmer' takes journey from street to stage 2010-04-14T21:46:00Z

That playful informality, that quality of playing with friends without being the focal point, continues through his solo work. Blues, jazz, electronica. It all flows through Ben LaMar Gay. 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

The whimsical nature of the turtle brought to mind "The Language Archive," a far more frolicsome play by Cho that is evoked again here in a playful scene of translation. In 'Aubergine,' Julia Cho turns choked-off emotions into a tale of sustenance 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

You can see her charismatic features – big nose and playful eyes framed by the black sharpness of her hair – as a beguiling invitation to look inside. Kiki de Montparnasse by Jose-Luis Bocquet and Catel Muller ? review 2011-03-19T00:06:15Z

She has a new album, “Wed 21,” whose songs will be on display — as well as her impeccably quick wit — in her playful and quirky live show. Pop & Rock Listings for July 11-17 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

It transformed an entire amphitheater into an airy forest of sound, playful and solemn at once. A Quirky Violinist and a Festival to Match 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

Michael LandyKinetic sculptures made from scrap illuminate the lives of the saints in Landy's playful take on the National Gallery collection.• Medieval master Simone Martini comes to London – the week in art 2013-05-17T15:40:31Z

That same sense of humor and playful iconography threads through the project, and makes it sound simultaneously fresh and familiar. Eight Albums That Defined 2018 for Me 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

The lean, straightforward trio format and the tricky but frisky repertoire made an ideal showcase for Mitchell’s prodigious, playful virtuosity and Reid’s double duties of propulsion and melodic counterpoint. Big Ears Festival: 15 Performances That Soothed, Jolted and Intrigued 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

Most other works in the lineup are more playful — like Club Malam, a rave takeover of Old Kallang Airport by rockers and visual artists. Glastonbury in England and Dark Mofo in Tasmania: Global Arts Guide 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

More than any other late-night ensemble in history, the Roots set and amplify the tone for Fallon with their playful, inventive and surprising musical choices. Questlove helping set the tone on all-new ‘Tonight Show’ 2014-02-19T21:55:54Z

With all these innovative desserts, traditional favorites and playful riffs on classics, it shouldn’t be hard to find one to suit your purpose. Make holidays happier with bakery sweets (yes, it’s OK) 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

On the cover of the Book Review, Lily King praised Moshfegh’s sentences as “playful, shocking, wise, morbid, witty, searingly sharp,” and said that as a character Eileen is “as vivid and human as they come.” Reader’s Guide to This Fall’s Big Book Awards 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

An all-black figure flails menacingly; a red figure is more playful; a white figure is relatively serene. Bridging the differences between people 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

And the event takes place on the platform Shindig, whose bells and whistles allow for playful, gamelike communication. Review: ‘Readymade Cabaret 2.0’ Brings Randomness to Virtual Theater 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

The movement idiom or idioms suggest a playful dialogue with other dance genres. Dance Review: Tere O’Connor Dance at New York Live Arts 2012-11-28T23:05:30Z

All the while, music played that carried off the impressive feat of being both playful and menacing, like a bedtime nursery rhyme that would later prompt nightmares. On the Runway Blog: Thom Browne and Donatella Versace Both Put on a Show 2014-01-20T16:22:43Z

And anything in poetry was worth a deliciously playful and serious examination. Valerie Eliot's death deprives poetry of its strongest advocate 2012-11-13T12:01:10Z

In some ways, this reflects her personal style: she favors simple black clothes, highlighted by playful yellow accessories, including a yellow Lego ring and yellow clogs. This Life: Maria Popova Has Some Big Ideas 2012-11-30T21:35:52Z

The rest of the décor was a playful pastiche of periods and materials. Check In: Hotel Review: Teatro B&B in Lisbon 2013-06-13T20:56:25Z

“There’s a feeling you get when you turn to a song and you know that the words have two meanings,” Google confirmed in a playful statement, complete with Led Zeppelin “Stairway to Heaven” allusions. Google Adds Some Song Lyrics to Search Results 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

They seem warmer and even playful: Bellamy nods to the venue's fabled history with a perfect imitation of the opening lick from Hendrix's Voodoo Chile. Muse – review 2012-10-01T11:35:50Z

Murder, torture, extortion — the Punisher’s methods make Batman’s worst throttlings look like playful slaps on the wrist. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

He never abandoned his playful and practical sides. The magical movement of Calder’s mobiles — and mind 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

The orchestral accompaniment is both playful, with lots of drizzly irregular pizzicato, and ominous. How the Philharmonic’s New Home Sounds, From Any Seat 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

Along the way this subversively funny, tonally twisted film morphs from something playful with dark undercurrents into the opposite. | 'Super': You Don?t Need Superpowers if You Have a Pipe Wrench (and Anger Issues) 2011-03-31T23:05:03Z

So, in a playful frame of mind, I tweeted back. Perspective | I am a theater critic in New York. Not a hair salon in Dublin. Let me explain. 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

My lawyer was kind and sometimes playful in her conversation but billed hourly and with precision. Modern Love: In Bitter Moments, Reaching for the Sweet 2010-09-03T19:50:00Z

It's a short train ride to the Rose in Kingston where Ockham's Razor's very lovely and playful Not Until We Are Lost is in residence from Thursday. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-06-07T16:06:29Z

The opera's second hour becomes more playful, political and human. 'Alice in Wonderland' at Disney Hall proves exhilarating 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

The menu featured dishes like pigeon with “playful artichoke corn sauce,” foie gras accompanied by a “Black Russian cocktail,” and chicken cooked in a milk and tobacco sauce. Revelations in High-End Rome 2012-09-28T18:24:21Z

The result is simultaneously playful, complex and macabre. Prographica’s ‘Bleak Beauty’: fine art from the ‘unpromising’ 2013-02-21T22:58:33Z

It is hard to distinguish the playful laughter she delivers while in character at rehearsals from the giggle she offers in conversation. Vanessa Hudgens graduates from High School Musical to Broadway and ‘Gigi’ 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Singing “A-Tisket, A-Tasket,” Austin clearly savored the playful lyric that Fitzgerald helped adapt to turn the nursery rhyme into her first hit single. 'To Ella With Love' a missed opportunity at Hollywood Bowl 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Thanks to DeMaine's playful pizzicatos and the Calders' unflappability, the second movement, in which the lyricism becomes downright angelic, was permitted no Hallmark sentiments. Calder Quartet takes a bow with a timeless performance 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

But even among those who carefully study and recreate regional pleasures that belong to other places, the food tends to be more playful than prescriptive. In Search of the California Barbecue Tradition 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

And suddenly Mr. Smith’s playful excess, once deemed obscene, feels prescient and perfect. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

The playful "Lost" actor also got extra lovey-dovey with the brunet beauty as they shopped at the Studio City farmer's market on Sunday, according to E! 'Twilight's' Nikki Reed dating Ian Somerhalder, reports say 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

And I loved the playful sweetness provided by a vein of candied sunflower seeds. Restaurant Review: Superiority Burger in the East Village 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

In “The Second Detail” Mr. Forsythe offers a rigorous and playful exploration of ballet’s precepts: verticality, equilibrium, effort, control and classical line. Dance Review: Building on the Mastery of What Came Before 2011-05-02T22:07:56Z

Without this bond, the play comes off as innocuously playful. 'Stage Kiss' elicits lots of giggles but not much emotion at Geffen Playhouse 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

The style was a bit more playful, and the music had more of the jagged rhythms Peck liked. Sufjan Stevens and Justin Peck Make a Ballet About Respect 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

Right from the start, on 1988’s Blah Blah Blah, he had his technique down pat: playful and mischievous but also attentive and empathetic; his subjects repayed him by dropping their guard. Andrew Denton: his final farewell? 2013-06-26T04:16:27Z

The sculpture is a playful cross among an abstract sculpture on a pedestal, a comic-book idea of high technology and an android from an old Saturday afternoon B-movie serial. Two machines with conceptual liveliness built in at Redling Fine Art 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

And yet, the askew, jazzy, playful melodies lead the way to songs of gripping candour and emotion. Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel … – review 2012-12-20T21:30:06Z

The session exudes a hearty, playful warmth, led by Ammons’s majestically insinuating blue shadows. The Year’s Most Essential Jazz Reissue 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

A pristine infinity pit, it elicits playful childhood fantasies of tunneling all the way to China crossed with grown-up fears of sinister silos harboring the tools of Armageddon. International art invades the suburban Coachella Valley: The best of 'Desert X' 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Truth and beauty are the victors in this playful, autobiographical tale of a French couple fighting for their son's life. Declaration of War: Romeo and Juliette Take on Cancer 2012-01-27T16:28:06Z

The 11 songs from the 18-year-old singer-songwriter’s breakup album are raw and angry, dreamy and mocking, playful and profane, with shards of punk and princess pop. AP’s top albums of 2021: ‘Sour,’ ‘Donda,’ H.E.R. and Eilish 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

By turning its focus to Ellie, the 14-year-old girl who is Joel’s ward for much of The Last of Us, Left Behind becomes the better game: lighter, more playful, joyful, vulnerable and, yes, girlish. Critic’s Notebook: The Last of Us: Left Behind, a Game With the Unexpected 2014-04-25T20:23:47Z

“I like a sense of humor, but me myself, normally I’m more melancholy than playful,” she said. Rivane Neuenschwander?s Playful but Serious Art 2010-06-21T22:49:00Z

They can be playful, something more literal minded western writers often fail to grasp, for when it comes to Africa humour is the first casualty. The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief by VS Naipaul 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z

In a manner that is patient — and sometimes even playful — rather than polemical, “All Light, Everywhere” contributes to debates about crime, policing, racism and accountability. ‘All Light, Everywhere’ Review: Watching the Watchers 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

His ready, quick wit and playful, energetic manner are perfectly suited for the holiday occasion -- and also ideal for keeping a young audience prone to restlessness focused and entertained. Review: Holiday Sing-Along at Disney Hall a family delight 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

“The minute I met Enda, I knew this was going to be no problem at all because he just gets it. He’s got this weird combination of playful energy and intellectual seriousness.” Will ‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers’ Take Flight on the Stage? 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Beneath the playful atmosphere and the comedy of the casket scenes runs something darker. The Merchant of Venice – review 2012-05-29T11:47:25Z

Gone were Jordyn Wieber’s tears, and the running mascara, magically replaced by an impish smile and a playful bite on an Olympics gold medal. Michael Phelps, Jordyn Wieber: Redemption! 2012-08-01T11:45:00Z

Crucially, its findings are based on situations where the child’s musical activities were informal and shared, typically with a parent – essentially a playful social experience. How Music Trumps Reading for Childhood Development 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

It doesn’t hurt that “The Four Seasons” is also playful. Dance Review: New York City Ballet in a Tribute to a Fast Train 2014-02-05T21:50:27Z

In Shortz’s era, he’s worked to eliminate that kind of obscurity, making the puzzles more playful and bringing more pop culture into the mix. Meet Jeff Chen, the Seattle man who’s published more than 125 crosswords in The New York Times 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

One may extrapolate from these lines, as Banham did himself, a theory of architecture that makes room for fantasy, for whimsy, for a kind of playful excess. Learning to Look at L.A. 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

The Guest was one of those, because it was just an incredibly playful atmosphere with a very unique sort of script. Downton star leaves behind Matthew Crawley for US action role 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

The lower, gridded layer shows the influence of Mondrian’s severe geometry while black silhouetted shapes suggest a more expressive and playful attitude. Art Review: ?Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950-1970? at N.Y.U. - Review 2012-01-13T16:11:35Z

Lee’s playful inventiveness and flamboyant attitudes do more than fuse with recklessly self-destructive behavior; they also incite and inspire it. “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” Reviewed: Melissa McCarthy Finally Gets the Dramatic Role She Deserves 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

These fads are successful because rather than focusing on instructive or traditional toys and products, they embrace a more playful, imaginative fantasy world for children, Cross says. The story of ‘Baby Shark’: How toddlers around the world made a K-pop earworm go viral 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Tango On the Beach THE Juanita Bag, a large beach tote, is characteristic of the bright, playful bags and shoes at the new Valeria Smith store in SoHo. Browsing: Valeria Smith Opens a Store in SoHo 2010-06-16T18:38:00Z

He’s a little more playful with The Innkeepers. The Innkeepers: More Clerks Than Spooks 2012-02-03T14:00:39Z

Ongoing Boxing KittenBoxing Kitten's line of playful prints is now 15 percent off. On the Runway Blog: Online Sale Picks for June 28 2012-06-29T00:25:31Z

His work, considered a precursor to Abstract Expressionism, combined Surrealist symbolism with fervent political views; the result is both playful and socially conscious. In Transit: A Broad Look at Mir? at London's Tate Modern 2011-04-12T10:00:19Z

Orpheus: The Song of Life is a book of wonders, learned, playful and passionate. Orpheus: The Song of Life by Ann Wroe ? review 2011-07-29T22:00:40Z

My eyes held tight to Nik’s warm, playful gaze; we were in a wind tunnel and had found the one still space. Our marriage can’t be denied 2014-01-12T00:00:00Z

Star Trek Beyond gives us a playful tweak, making the view of the shipyard more interesting than the ship. Star Trek Beyond: 13 reasons to get excited about the new trailer 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z

These shows had slow spots, but at their best, they had an experimental, playful spirit. Live Comedy Is Back in New York! But Outdoors. Is This a Good Thing? 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

Two external ramps, one at each end of the structure, spiraled up to the parking; escalators along the facades suggested a crude version of the Pompidou Center’s playful people-moving machines. Critic?s Notebook: Turning a Rearview Mirror on Kevin Roche 2011-02-22T23:36:55Z

Mr. Mackey’s “It Is Time,” a premiere, dealt with shifting perceptions of time through clockwork machinations, fluid distortions and playful interaction with Mark DeChiazza’s video images, projected on an overhead screen. Music Review | So Percussion: So Percussion at Zankel Hall: Textures From Contraptions 2010-03-26T22:21:00Z

Will it introduce reverberations throughout the films and TV shows going forward, or will it be essentially isolated in its own playful thought bubble? Is ‘Loki’ a True Marvel Variant? Or Just a Fun Experiment? 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

And the real coup is what comes at the top of that track, before the music even starts: Kesha’s playful, giddy laugh. Review: On ‘Rainbow,’ Kesha Nods to the Past and Roars Into the Future 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

Ms. Ross chimed in: “Sex can be playful, more like, ‘Let’s have some fun.’” You Are Your Safest Sex Partner. Betty Dodson Wants to Help. 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

In a playful touch, huge flat set pieces pop up, looking like speech balloons in cartoons. Music Review: Who Killed This Woman?s Lover? And Other Elusive Operatic Issues 2011-03-27T22:01:56Z

The Village Theatre's playful new production, which is scheduled to run through February in Issaquah and much of March in Everett, benefits greatly from the expert work of two familiar local theater veterans. Review: 'Sleuth' at Village Theatre is rich with twists, turns and local talent 2011-01-28T21:56:07Z

This is a movie concerned with — and influenced by — an especially rich and complicated slice of 20th-century European culture, and therefore a reckoning, characteristically playful but also fundamentally serious, with some very ugly history. Movie Review: Wes Anderson’s ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ Is a Complex Caper 2014-03-06T15:00:02Z

“You see the whole range of emotions in that clip — playful, annoyed, loving and worried,” Schmidt said. Mary Pickford Film Found in New Hampshire Barn is Restored 2013-09-24T13:40:30Z

Here, the choreographers peppered the stage with steps from the dancers’ training, a potpourri of small jumps and turns, while giving them occasions to be playful. Review: Kids Dance Puts on a Show of Courage, Discipline and Heart 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z

“The Antipodes” begins in a playful manner not unlike Baker’s “Circle Mirror Transformation.” Annie Baker's 'Antipodes' opens a door to the coveted writers room 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

Precise, playful, blurring the lines between figuration and abstraction, they are tiny worlds unto themselves. The Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair is back. Here’s what to see 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

Her manner was not unlike her outfit: forthright, unaffected, a little playful. Single, and Singular, Women Become Her 2010-09-03T20:40:00Z

“It’s a museum, just less institutional and more playful,” Lundgren said, stepping past half-smashed walls, over demolition detritus, and down some stairs. With demolition tools in hand, a Seattle artist aims to unlock the city’s cultural potential 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

The switch from mundane monologuing to brutal murder is made all the more harsh by the song’s playful tones. Mood music: how a jaunty pop song can ramp up movie terror 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

Speaking of dimes, “Hyde Park on Hudson” is perhaps a bit shiny and thin, emphasizing Roosevelt’s playful charm and his sexual appetites rather than his political achievements. Critic’s Notebook: Four Days of Films at Telluride 2012-09-03T22:16:36Z

Last February, Thom Browne sent models down the runway dressed as nuns; their habits were removed to reveal the designer’s playful suits and colorful patterns. Noticed: Culture Hopping in a Fedora 2011-04-29T23:33:25Z

It was smart and modern — like the collection, which the designer described as both “playful” and a riff on fabric heritage. 2010-01-23T06:20:00Z

With impeccably crisp phrasing, the earnest and playful Macntaj cuts through any beat he graces, delivering motoring tongue twisters, soulful reflections and half-sung passages with precision and personality. 16 of the best Seattle albums from 2021 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

In autobiographical songs and anecdotes that focus on his complicated relationship with his family, he tells a story of suffering, regret, despair and hope in a conversational tone with a playful touch. The one-man musical 'The Lion' leaps to the L.A. stage with songs of regret and hope 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

On a car trip weeks after their first date, a lull in the conversation brought out Ms. McEnerney’s playful side. She Sang. So Did His Heart. 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

The blog adheres to the adage that many a great truth is spoken in jest, and semi-serious issues are wrapped in a playful guise. Up Close: Yoga Blogger Covers the Lighter Side 2010-07-28T22:58:00Z

“Along the way this subversively funny, tonally twisted film morphs from something playful with dark undercurrents into the opposite,” Stephen Holden wrote in The Times in March. DVD: Desert Tales, Centuries Apart 2011-08-06T20:23:02Z

They can initially look playful and even haphazard, but with a little time, a rigorous consideration of painting as object, illusion and process emerges. Museum & Gallery Listings for March 18-24 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

In fact, since the news broke, the only engagement-related tidbit Williams has shared on Instagram is a playful post to tease fans who might have been hoping for a sneak peek of her engagement bling. Serena Williams Gives Fans a Playful Sneak Peek at Her Ring 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

But actors and directors are all about interpretation, and the characters have wandered into a company that wants to put a playful, romantic twist on their domestic horrors. ‘Six Characters in Search of an Author’ at BAM 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Unexpectedly, the most moving section is the upbeat middle one; it is alternately dreamy and playful, an abstraction of a cruelly arrested childhood. Music Review: Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio Plays Arvo Pärt 2012-11-19T22:51:43Z

The two started to use "schtroumpf" to replace other words in a playful form of conversation that was to become the basis for the cartoon Smurfs' language. Rare early Smurf drawings on sale in Paris 2011-10-26T19:08:07Z

Puppies, on the other hand, are born as babies and within a few days of their arrival are playful and soft. I love my dog as much as my child 2012-11-10T17:00:00Z

Big or small, playful TikTokers are showing off their bubble popping skills by pushing down these pop-its as fast as they can. ​TikTok made you buy it: A selection of viral, gifty finds 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z

Set in one of the most diverse counties in the United States, the artist’s five new sculptures will address themes of immigration, race and belonging in ways both playful and pointed. Installation at Socrates Sculpture Park Takes Political Turn 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

“Dan was so playful, and his work thinks so much about children and childhood.” Aura Rosenberg’s Seriously Playful Art of Collaboration 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

But for now Amis is in playful mode, the scowl abandoned. Martin Amis: a new chapter in America 2012-06-02T23:04:03Z

The rapport between the two is courteous and playful in the film, as Michelle feistily keeps her date at arm's length while he uses charm to bring her guard down. Obamas' first date inspires romantic movie 'Southside with You' 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

“This playful artistry is what we’ve tried to maintain ever since, but gradually on a larger and more challenging scale.” Scene in/ Seen in... Madrid: Nurturing the Arts, Even in Tight Times 2010-11-19T12:38:00Z

The performances by the two principals are almost acrobatic feats: to retain clarity and sense notwithstanding a rapid-fire delivery of words and a liberal dose of sarcasm, playful insult, bemusement, innuendo, and scattered asides. He Said, She Said, We Said, You Said 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

A playful mix of objects named “The Perfect Match” that reflects their complementary creative personalities. Artist- and architect-designed jewelry selected by Sofia Sanchez and Alexandre de Betak for auction at Paddle8 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

“There’s this whole world where there’s a playful, very British humor,” she said. It Was a Dark and Stormy Style 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

How exciting that he also writes fiction, because he has a great deal to say and a knowing, playful, deeply intelligent voice. Review: ‘The Sympathizer,’ a Novel About a Soldier, Spy and Film Consultant 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Contestant Poppy Carlig, who performed the twirl, said she considered Trump's request "playful banter." AP: How Trump's 'Apprentice' moved from capitalism to sexism 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

Part of the charm of Crossing the Line is that it is always a touch more playful than esoteric. Time to Put Choreography Back on Its Feet 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z

In the duet — competitive, playful, arduous — the two dancers never touch. Twyla Tharp: ‘Each One of the Dances Is My Hope for a Perfect World’ 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

The online game allows a playful way to keep in constant contact when geographically distant. How we can use gaming to support positive aging (and support our relationships with our pets, too) 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gray stages this with a playful comedy that signals the men’s camaraderie. Review: In ‘Straight Outta Compton,’ Upstarts Who Became the Establishment 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Coupled to Perry’s bewildering production, which feels smoky and playful elsewhere, it turns suffocating and wearying now, his music bearing the full weight of centuries of oppression and struggle. Perspective | Behind the smokescreens, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry was a true master of sound and spacetime 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

“While romantic, it has a more playful feel to it.” How ‘Some Like It Hot’ Tunes In to the Jazz Age 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

“I am so much more playful and able to just ignore everything else that I’m dealing with in my head,” she says. Marijuana’s last taboo: Parents who get stoned 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

I also thought the piece had quite a playful quality to it — like the best roads. How Classical Music Can Help You Hear the Open Road 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

Movies, of course, have always flirted with disaster, but usually with a playful attitude. 2011 Films: ?Melancholia,? ?Tree of Life,? ?Moneyball? 2011-12-17T02:03:03Z

The rich black velvet and retro style will complement a simple black dress or sleek little suit, giving it a playful vibe and unexpected twist. Put on your dancing shoes 2010-12-01T16:08:00Z

It also, somewhat more riskily, tries to fold the kind of playful, wide-eyed high spirits familiar from the “Night at the Museum” movies into what is in effect a midlife melodrama. Movie Review: ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ Stars Ben Stiller 2013-12-24T18:27:55Z

This kind of material can easily veer into either the maudlin or the blasphemous, but Belafonte’s playful yet practical performance achieves the perfect balance of winking wit and gentle lesson-learning. Watch These Great Harry Belafonte Screen Performances 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

She exudes confidence without seeming cocky, and she can be playful and warm. 'Empire's' tough Cookie, Taraji P. Henson, always up for a challenge 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Mr. Meireles’s playful tribute may be the closest the academy has come to engaging the sort of Conceptual shenanigans that go on across the street at the Guggenheim. Art Review | '185th Annual': Academy Gives Art Some Wiggle Room 2010-02-19T05:57:00Z

I finished by looking at the art that Wojnarowicz made in the early eighties, which is joyful, playful, colorful, and imaginative. David Wojnarowicz’s Still-Burning Rage 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z

O’Connell’s style is playful over-the-top perfection, and there’s a chapter on entertaining, should you aspire to a soupçon of his signature flair. Entertaining tips from the renowned owner of the Inn at Little Washington 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

But with people increasingly getting their kicks from YouTube, playful social critique is basically invisible at the theatre. Political theatre lacks the Commons touch 2010-10-19T11:04:00Z

The orchestra, revealing dark undercurrents in the first movement, found a contrasting, playful urgency in the finale. A surprising L.A. Chamber Orchestra concert features two Wolfgangs' music — and a rare clarinet 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

His studio, which he has owned since the mid-1980s, is stuffed with his playful creations, most of which are curved: tables, chairs, window frames, even parts of the floor and ceiling. When Cat's Eyes met Ron Arad 2011-08-16T20:31:00Z

But it’s really rather sad, because the whole thing started out cute, playful and fun. ArtsBeat: ‘The Americans’ Recap: It’s Dark, It’s Raining, It’s Ugly Out There 2014-04-03T03:01:06Z

The last rule caused some playful friction in the group. Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

This is serious architecture, about as playful as a nuclear reactor. The new Sepentine pavilion is a rhapsody in red 2010-07-06T20:31:00Z

Interlacing steel sheets about a third of an inch thick were used to create the stack of playful volumes, the curves of which are accentuated at night by spotlights. Jürgen Mayer H.'s Sculpture in an Unbuilt City 2014-02-21T05:00:00Z

In lieu of the solemnity of the typical French museum is an array of playful vestiges, many of which are interactive. A Paris Museum at Play 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

But Davis also explores “using objects and environments to forge a connection between individuals,” a goal that seems more pertinent to this playful piece. In the galleries: Playful piece will keep you on your toes at Flashpoint Gallery 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

I feel youthful for my age — active, playful, energetic, lighthearted. At What Age Is Love Enthralling? 82 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

The series, which begins on Sunday on BBC America, is playful about sword fights, brotherhood and court intrigue, but solemn about the world. A New Version of ‘The Musketeers,’ on BBC America 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

The book’s straightforward title undersells its playful contents. Counting the Population Has Always Been Political 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z

Thus the playful vibe and updated comfort food at Riggsby in Dupont Circle’s revamped Carlyle hotel, one of the neighborhood’s most promising debuts in a long time. Riggsby is a refreshing blast from the past in Dupont Circle 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z

“It’s going to be a wonderful wedding and not a backdrop for a murder,” he said, and gave a playful wink to Ms. Higgins Clark. Worthy of a Romance Novel, With a Touch of Mystery 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

It’s the kind of playful rapport to be expected from spouses who got their start making each other laugh. Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V Gordon on Little America 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z

Onstage, this confidently joyful guffaw emerging out of a gaping mouth became her signature and something of a playful argument that her insults were rooted in fun, not anxiety. ArtsBeat: Phyllis Diller and Her Comic Craft 2012-08-22T16:23:43Z

While the clothes were like Abloh — playful, colorful and vibrant — the mood was somber. Louis Vuitton show pays tribute to designer Virgil Abloh 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

This mostly fictional fabrication gives Cheadle the leeway to create a playful, unpredictable and unexpected work — a cinematic reflection of the music that made him famous. ‘Miles Ahead,’ ‘The Exiles’ and More Streaming Gems 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

Even so, unleavened by the author's playful prose and witty writing, the celluloid version seems starker. Reading group: John Huston's Wise Blood is an unlikely cinematic feat 2012-12-21T15:10:19Z

"What could so nearly have been overbearing or desperate to be loved is, in actual fact, sincerely captivating and euphorically playful." Mercury Prize 2014: The nominees 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

That it has awakened culture warriors uncomfortable with displays of gay male desire, or with playful representations of sin, means the video has done what it was meant to do. Lil Nas X, Clapback Champ 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

Alana, who turned 7 late last month after filming ended, was friendly and playful, though a bit distracted, during her second national media interview of the day. Honey Boo Boo has hometown fans and critics 2012-09-12T21:46:10Z

Theirs is a playful debate, the interaction loose and easy. Chris Rock a rough, raw, rare diamond in 'Top Five' 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Her description of Counts’ playful sculptures is a soothing, engaging watch, and a good way to see artists represented by the gallery without leaving your house. With galleries open and museums reopening, visual art is back for fall — in person and online 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

He cleverly implies that his own sensibility — playful, minutely observant, ticklishly alert to life’s “terrible, stupendous mire of trivia” — is exactly what’s needed to detect a swindler like Chichikov. The Russian Comic Writer Who’s an Antidote to Mad Times 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

Ms. de Kooning shared her father’s playful sense of absurdity, and liked to tell of the time he helped her and her mother with renovating their home. Lisa de Kooning, 56, Dies; Sought to Preserve Father’s Legacy 2012-12-01T03:31:02Z

And walking through the show, decoding the subtle signs, a distinct impression forms of Fatimid-era sensibilities: playful subversiveness and freedom of thought, with indulgence from the highest levels. The Art Lovers Who Founded Cairo 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

But too much of “Chromatic” is adrift, landing on the juvenile side of playful. Review: When Colors and Disciplines Don’t Quite Match 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

In the footage of Laura and Ben, he found dozens of traits characteristic of children in the movies: they were playful, destructive, daring, adventurous, watchful, performative. Mark Cousins: the kids stay in the picture 2013-05-20T18:00:02Z

Instead, the clue for the show's playful premise is in the title, "Crazy Delicious." Netflix's "Crazy Delicious" is a fever dream competition that crafts inventive food for the gods 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

And so this miniature film moves from being playful with propriety to being playful with reality. Paris, home of the avant-garde 2011-03-26T00:05:47Z

Dias is more playful, sinuous and springy, but she seems to be working with a much smaller vocabulary. Review: Absences, S-Curves and Wonderful Asymmetries 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

“Within my designs, I always look for something a little fun and different and playful in the right areas,” she says. Candles in funky and interesting shapes add visual interest and fun to your home decor 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

This turned out to be the legendary journalist Gay Talese, himself drinking a martini and in a playful mood. | Salute to a Baldwin 2011-03-02T15:00:05Z

In these artists’ playful works, there is no one correct vantage point. In the galleries: Multiple photographic perspectives at the Art Gallery at UMd 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Both last movements were delightfully playful; both Andantes were reflective, if oddly balanced; and the Mozart first movement spoke with authority and moments of repose. A delicious and bite-size program of two piano quartets 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

With his professor’s hours, he was the more present, playful and engaged parent, taking the girls out for pizza and to the library so their mother could work through the weekends. Literary Fathers, Literary Daughters, and the Books That Bind Them 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

"He uses language in a very playful, over-the-top and outrageous way." Writer's centenary is celebrated 2013-07-06T10:35:47Z

There is a playful mood to the wedge. Style: Stepping Out: The Wedge Flirts With the Catwalk 2011-08-15T13:30:45Z

“There is a fashion in American language culture right now to be playful in a way that is often childlike,” Mr. McWhorter said. Where Have All the Vowels Gone? 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z

“The material’s not that playful,” the performance artist Michael Smith said of Rosenberg’s work, “but there’s a sense of innocence.” Aura Rosenberg’s Seriously Playful Art of Collaboration 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

Of course, there are more playful anti-loneliness products coming out of Tokyo. Boyfriends for rent, robots, camming: how the business of loneliness is booming 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z

The bouncy second movement had a suitably playful gait; the melancholy third movement, an enticing languor. Music Review: Takacs Quartet Plays Britten and Janacek at Zankel Hall 2012-04-15T18:18:42Z

From playful individual party pails to personalized drinking straws that also serve as place cards, set your table American style. An All-American Party 2010-06-23T23:04:00Z

Her stories are at once so serious and so playful. Edinburgh international book festival: writers' picks 2011-08-12T21:55:15Z

The first “Kung Fu Panda,” released in 2008, was a rambunctious, whimsical blend of action, jokiness and sentiment, lifted above the kiddie-cartoon mean by its shiny, playful look and Mr. Black’s endlessly adaptable charm. | 'Kung Fu Panda 2': A Noble Panda Takes On a Nightmare Enemy 2011-05-25T21:42:30Z

The dialogue in the music hall turn that concludes “Vinegar Tom” — part of an earnestly playful double bill of one-acts from the Potomac Theater Project — was not written, for the most part, by Ms. Churchill. Review: ‘Vinegar Tom’ and ‘Judith’ Examine Woman as Myth 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

“But the idea was to be playful and surprising.” In Harlem, a Playful New Youth Center Is an Instant Landmark 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

In that playful 1932 solo, originally part of a suite called “Dance Songs,” the costume is a vibrant black-and-green striped dress designed by Graham herself. How to Breathe New Life Into Martha Graham’s Dances? Infuse Them With Art. 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

Piombo’s piquant colors transformed traditional cloth, dyeing green the pepper-and-salt Scottish tweeds, giving playful shades of orange and turquoise to Austrian mohair and cognac colors to moleskin. 2010-01-16T06:40:00Z

Now she is making a play for the rest of your getaway wardrobe with a swimwear line that highlights her talent for color and playful patterns. Leave Your Phone at Home 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

"The internet allows for a very interactive and playful connection with the audience," says Bangalter. Daft Punk's retro album Random Access Memories gets Shard debut 2013-05-14T16:12:38Z

These fads are successful because rather than focusing on instructive or traditional toys and products, they embrace a more playful, imaginative fantasy world for children, says Cross. The story of ‘Baby Shark’: How toddlers around the world made a K-pop earworm go viral 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

He’s more playful than Method — “there’s no acting training that’s going to help you when you’re going to be a zombie ripping someone’s head off,” he said. They Scream! We Scream! 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

Annika Jarring’s work — with its glass combs, glass suitcase and glass coat hanger — is more playful, intent on finding unexpected forms for her chosen material. ‘Kingdom of Glass’ on view at Nordic Heritage Museum 2014-01-02T22:51:10Z

Despite the playful ring of KiDS, can a self-taught color maverick make a difference? The Image Chaser 2013-12-04T20:44:57Z

Erin: His general tone was pretty playful, and I’m pretty playful, so it matched. Date Lab: No game playing necessary 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

In the finale, Ax flaunted his powerhouse pianism in playful passages where his chords rang like bells and his whispery arpeggios traced a filigree pattern against the night sky. Pianist Emanuel Ax, NSO woo Wolf Trap audience with Brahms 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

It’s all pretty trippy, and although it doesn’t always make much logical sense, the playful and imaginative touches keep us entertained. Cornerstone Theatre's nine-play cycle on hunger in America finds its inspiration in Mozart 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

Today, many fathers are intimately involved with their children from the moment of birth, and they delight in sharing in the playful and tender nurturing that once was the province of women. Condoms are so hundred years ago: Why we need more ways for men to control their fertility 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

It’s a magnificent work, stylish, playful and highly serious and, despite its protagonist’s sometimes harrowing ordeals, exuberantly uplifting. Daniela Vega: the transgender star lighting up the film industry 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z

Juliet changes from an unworldly child, both bashful and playful, into an awakened sensualist whose violence of feeling initiates their wedding and impels the tragic decisions that lead to death. 4 Buzzy ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Debuts, 1 Fainthearted Production 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

His vivid, textured art is as playful as the music he creates as Pontiac, but it can also be strikingly dark. Cult favorite John Lurie is back, with an old alter ego 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

Peck is playful, full of personality yet elegantly restrained, which gives her a sense of mystery. 2017’s best dance: The year when powerful women seized the spotlight 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

The Chinese New Year begins Monday, February 8, ushering in the Year of the rollicking, playful Monkey. “It was like watching home”: “Fresh Off the Boat” makes history with funny and moving Chinese New Year episode 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

He would post playful experiments, a lot of them made with GarageBand, to the music board of 4chan and other sites — always anonymously. Conrad Tao Was Never Just Another Prodigy 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

Her dramas are at once painterly and playful, poetic and political, didactic and open-minded, emotionally grounded and stylistically oblique. In 'The Conduct of Life,' witness an American classic that's more often taught than staged 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

It is poignant, as you’d expect, and surreal, but mostly it’s playful. Mats Ek — the Swedish rebel choreographer who’s ‘allergic to pretty’ 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

But if her work appears offhand and playful, there can be something unsettling about it as well. | An 84-Year-Old Ceramist’s New York Moment 2014-03-03T23:45:27Z

The couple's playful sexual games include a remarkable scene involving a sharp knife held in the mouth. Skintight – review 2013-07-22T17:49:16Z

Gomes matches the music’s playful spirit with a wedding, but there’s also a main character at a crossroads. Perspective | When world-class dancers leap into a new role: Choreographing world premieres 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

He was being playful but he was also thinking about legacy. Remembering Charles Aznavour, the Last and Greatest Troubadour 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

Rudolph and Armisen, who performed together for years on “Saturday Night Live,” have a playful chemistry and help us believe that June and Oscar, in their lowest moments, are still in this weird thing together. “Forever,” a Big-Hearted Satire Bolstered by the Brilliance of Maya Rudolph 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Baker said she slapped Landis’ butt in what she thought was a playful manner and he “snapped” on her. Max Landis accused of sexual and emotional abuse by 8 women in new exposé 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z

“Being playful. Seeing it as a tool set like any other, that can be fostered.” Want to raise an empowered girl? Then let her be funny. 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

This playful “let’s put on a show” approach works especially well for this deeply theatrical novel. Why ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ still thrills — even if you know whodunit 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

On the excellent new album “Quarteria,” his first in six years, he guides a septet through original compositions of playful elasticity and brisk sharpness: The music is diligent and specific with an easy, human flow. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

His website uses words like “emotional” and “playful” to describe his dishes, which helps to explain items like elderflower, tea-cured salmon with vodka and lime jellies. 36 Hours in Bucharest 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

The fact is, we had the freedom to be playful and try something different to make it unusual. 'Performance? I still don't fully understand it' – behind the scenes photos from the cult classic 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Museum visitors often make a beeline for paintings, but this exhibition of around 30 drawings will pull in viewers with its thoughtful and often playful exploration of the medium’s limits. At Museums and Auctions, Paintings, Posters and a Magician’s Treasures 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Davis's dreamy phrasing and sound complement Jones's playful speculations on My Ship, and though the Art Blakeyesque The Blues is overly damped-down, the set is a showcase for the inimitable Jones. Steve Davis: Eloquence 2010-06-17T21:40:00Z

Also, there were many sides to him: the playful young man bursting with ambition, the scholar, the drinking buddy, the introvert. 'If I had known Richey Edwards there's no way I could have written it' 2010-09-20T14:01:00Z

The pas de deux from “William Tell” was by August Bournonville, which means that the beseeching and demurring should be especially innocent and playful. Review: School of American Ballet Workshop Includes ‘Harlequinade’ 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

To recordings by Autechre and of British folk music, the movement contrasted raw explosions—from standing to split leaps—with playful jigs and body clapping. Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev make magic in "Solo For Two" 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

It's witty and bleak, infused with a kind of playful misery that recalls the surrealism of Luis Buñuel and Terry Gilliam. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011-03-19T00:06:06Z

Brahms's Four Piano Pieces, Op 119 closed a pensive first half, the first Intermezzo full of descending steps sliding like rain down a window, the closing Rhapsodie playful but still dark in mood. Murray Perahia ? review 2011-04-03T21:45:01Z

And if you want to get people involved in a cause, enticing them to do something that’s lighthearted and playful and involves others is a much easier than sell than simply asking for their money. Could the ice bucket challenge really help cure ALS? 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

She exhibited the Abstract Expressionists but her wise and playful art had more in common with Paul Klee. Museum & Gallery Listings for March 27-April 2 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

In any case, if there was any sublimity left in the house, the encore, Johann Strauss’s playful “Pizzicato Polka,” swept it safely away. Music Review: In Different Hands, an Assortment of Moods 2010-10-04T21:42:00Z

Naomi was the playful one, charming crowds as she sang backup; Wynonna, more stoic, was the generational singer out front. Wynonna Judd, on Her Own 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

Murray made his mark by reengaging with the older, more lyrical styles of Don Byas and Ben Webster, and he built new room in the avant-garde for blues humor and playful ironies. David Murray: A jazz innovator leads from the center to the edge 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

That the portraits are made of 1.2 million Lego bricks emphasizes the artist’s playful touch. Ai Weiwei on creating political art in the Trump era: ‘Be part of the change’ 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

The orchestra sounded great, lavishing equal attention to color on the most quiet passages in the second movement and the playful dances of the first. Music Review: David Afkham Leads the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra 2013-08-18T21:53:05Z

The film "Tangerine," opening July 10, starts its story inside the shop, using it as a central location for its alternately playful and dramatic tale set amid the transgender sex workers along Santa Monica Boulevard. 'Misery loves comedy' in 'Tangerine,' a seriocomic film about trans sex workers 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

Décor Scandinavian minimalism, with playful fruit illustrations, like an Apple store for juice. The Juice-Box Set Grows Up 2013-07-17T21:24:57Z

Bob meant to relay it as a playful anecdote, writing: “Max and his sons learned a valuable lesson that day. No matter what, the hair always looks great.” ‘His reputation will never recover’: the rape trial that took down Harvey Weinstein 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

He richly reimagined Spanish music from the baroque and the Renaissance periods and teased it with playful bursts of noise. NSO, Lopez-Cobos disappoint in “Iberian Suite” program 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

It’s playful and joyous, with breezy fruit flavors, better for a party than an evening of quiet contemplation. Seeing 2021 Out With a Pop, a Pour and a Fizz 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

Your erotic time together needs to be playful. My partner and I are trying to conceive – but he's struggling with his sex drive 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

He begins in the desert of Baja, Mexico, and is soon in a boat in the waters where the whales gather, finding a friendly and playful mother and calf. TV highlights 12/03/2013 2013-03-12T07:00:16Z

A transcendental love duet, extracted from a "pantomime" on the life of Krishna, was a playful transposition of the billing and cooing of Papageno and Papagena from Mozart's The Magic Flute. John Tavener – review 2013-07-08T17:14:59Z

It's playful but serious, into sampling, cutting up and repurposing the music of the past, with one eye on the future. New band of the day ? No 1,092: Jonti 2011-08-25T16:00:12Z

The movie translation is playful and cunning but never escapes the reportorial trap; observation after the fact rarely matches the energy of experience. Bernie: (Jack) Black Comedy About Real-Life Murder 2012-04-25T13:00:36Z

With their playful aesthetics and generally lighthearted stories, these publications may appear blissfully oblivious to certain political realities of the drug. High Times Has Some Glossy New Competition 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

This biography is the most playful and colorful of the three, but it’s also by far the most thorough and thoughtful. TV Watch: Remembering the Reagan We May Never Know 2011-02-04T18:54:16Z

Brand: A whimsical British company known for playful, often inscrutable, pop art dials. A Watch With Snob Appeal for Under $1,000? Six Watch Insiders Offer Picks 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

It’s a characteristically playful introduction to the artist’s work, which draws heavily on his childhood pop-culture obsessions. Review | In the galleries: Cold War ignites inspiration for Culture House DC artist 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

As the monarchs wait to pay homage to the newborn, playful details add to the charm. Wonderfully weird 'Branchini Madonna' at the heart of an engrossing Getty show 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

In Ms. Ossai’s elaborate, playful and fashionable portraits, they are dressed in a mix of traditional garments and western wear. Black Beauty: Photography Between Art and Fashion 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

When Mr. Abloh is playful, he can be exhilarating — there’s serious joy in the gallery that includes a pile of his Ikea collaborations, which looks as if it were assembled via tornado. Can Virgil Abloh Fit in a Museum? 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

There needs to be a playful spirit in it. Broadway Artists Talk About Their Work 2010-08-22T01:05:00Z

He was bewitching, sweet, playful and wildly entertaining, the kind of baby strangers admired in the grocery store. The Enduring Wisdom of ‘Goodnight Moon’ 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

This minimized shrillness of string tone while uncovering much detail, both subtle and playful. CSO: Hough, Elder, Tchaikovsky a match made in heaven 2011-01-07T20:59:00Z

It also includes home videos that show a playful Lauren, dancing and playing basketball with his kids. 'It's emotional': Ralph Lauren on HBO documentary 'Very Ralph' 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

But two designers at the haute couture collections created playful interpretations of the multicultural mix. Fashion Review: A Playful Mix of Cultures 2013-01-23T18:00:31Z

Among them: bottlenose dolphins surfing for what appears to be the sheer joy of it, as narrator David Attenborough describes it, and, on the less playful side, a snakes vs iguana showdown. New this week: Katy Perry’s ‘Smile’ and ‘Love Island’ return 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

We have an easy, playful rapport and similar senses of humor and dispositions. Am I an unconscious tease? 2012-09-07T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, these two have a comfortable, playful rapport that makes their preposterous circumstances almost feel natural. Netflix Holiday Movies Ranked, From Tree Toppers to Lumps of Coal 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

He’d be really helpful and a great teacher but at the same time playful and brave and up for doing things differently. 'This is the best moment of my life,' he said, lying in the bath: Ian Holm remembered 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

The veteran Seattle glass artist strikes playful notes in this exhibit of glass masks and statuettes. 4 art exhibitions to see at Seattle-area galleries in December 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Most of the dozens upon dozens of galleries are free to browse — including the Chenglin Art Gallery, home to the playful and colorful paintings of Chenglin Huang — though a handful charge admission. Conquering High-Priced Shanghai, From Dumplings to Modern Art 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

Presumably he was making a playful point about the limitations of identity politics. Darby English Joins MoMA as Consulting Curator 2014-04-02T12:00:16Z

The art is tactile and lively, playful and solemn. New Picture Books Pose Two of Life’s Biggest Questions 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

It’s a guy-gal dance in a parking lot that starts out playful and ends up bitterly combative. The Playlist: Christine and the Queens’ Clever Pop, and 8 More New Songs 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

The food is modern, playful and features the sort of trompe l’oeil presentation that, while new to the Portuguese capital, is now commonly found in cities around the world. Restaurant Report: Mini Bar in Lisbon 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Passing down her culinary knowledge to Tita is a playful lesson. Review: In ‘Like Water for Chocolate,’ Plot Overtakes Ballet 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

Set over four floors, it’s an imaginative, playful, educational experience with high-tech exhibits set in various rustic, curative or culinary settings within the beautifully renovated building. Food fantasia: Lyon’s new gastronomy centre puts the world on a plate 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

God now comes on stage in a somewhat Jovian manner, playful, not wholly reliable. Poem of the week: Horace: The Odes, Book One, IX, translated by John Dryden 2012-07-30T11:26:17Z

In her wildly playful way, she appears to concur with her dramatic forebears from 21/2 millenniums ago that knowledge must be irradiated by emotion to become wisdom. A big 'like' for Caryl Churchill's 'Love and Information' 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

Every moment of this boldly episodic, mystical, playful piece sounded authentic. Ode to Meredith Monk From American Composers Orchestra 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z

The outcome is a strange, obsessive exhibition, which is dense with information, playful in parts, and unfailingly intriguing. At a Tokyo Museum, the Design Is in the Details 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

The exotic may be impertinent, playful, or decorative, but it is always unexpected. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

I think he was intended as a circus figure, a go-between linking the playful and the real, but it meant he had uphill work in a show that landed its comic hits through humorous updating.  Thwarting expectations with the standard repertoire 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

"The Strange Case of Angelica," the latest film from 102-year-old Portuguese writer/director Manoel de Oliveira, is a quiet tale, told through a rarely moving camera and a playful, bewitching smile. 'The Strange Case of Angelica' ? quietly beautiful film 2011-04-14T21:56:05Z

And Mr. Ridley’s style and method are invitingly playful even if the movie doesn’t approach the radicalness of Todd Haynes’s “I’m Not There,” an experimental inquiry into Bob Dylan. ‘Jimi: All Is by My Side,’ a Jimi Hendrix Biopic 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Inside it is filled with sculpted molded plywood “posters” emblazoned with playful symbols in the same comic-book style. Design: Celebrating a Graphic World 2011-02-06T19:00:06Z

The Scherzo was incisive and biting as well as playful. Music Review: Gianandrea Noseda in His Mostly Mozart Debut 2013-08-14T21:01:46Z

Schiff's sense of fun was soon to the fore, with a playful approach to Beethoven's first movement right-hand flourishes that brought Rossini to mind. András Schiff – review 2012-11-21T19:21:09Z

Since Appalachian bluegrass is actually part of the culture of these North Carolina siblings, they're far more playful with it, giving a fresh skip to Americana's dust-road step. The Avett Brothers – review 2013-03-17T18:51:19Z

He speculated that, “maybe it’s too playful for them, to deal with something so serious.” Myths explain Greece 2012-06-25T15:15:00Z

For he is one of the most playful, inventive and entertaining writers of our generation. Iain Banks, my Fife friend and storyteller extraordinaire 2013-04-03T16:39:26Z

The 40-minute dance offered a bucolic idyll — a playful, youthful group, sporting with charm and what looks like spontaneity. ‘Like He Was Going to Live Forever’: Making Jerome Robbins’s Last Ballet 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z

Not twists — the plot moves from Point A to Point B and back again, ending up pretty much where you knew it would — but kinks and swerves, tricks of perspective and playful reversals of expectation. Review: ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: Still Angry After All These Years 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

That crossover application is, to Ione, part of Oliveros’s legacy: “Bringing people together for sound and music and play and fun. Pauline was as playful and fun as she was serious.” Claire Chase Uses Her New Platform to Showcase a Hero 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

Is this believable, or is there a level of playful artifice at work? All Made Up by Janice Galloway ? review 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z

Maybe it’s the way he sticks to approachable, figurative images that are playful, but never off-puttingly abstract. 50 works by beloved Seattle artist Jacob Lawrence on view in expansive exhibit at Greg Kucera Gallery 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

It’s deflating how much it resembles a game of Twister, but that’s the danger in Ms. Driscoll’s work, which tends to sit on the adolescent side of playful. Dance Review: Faye Driscoll Draws In the Audience at Danspace 2014-03-10T20:40:05Z

Chef and Louisiana native David Guas does his home state proud by serving rustic, playful offerings such as shrimp and andouille jambalaya, blackened turkey meatballs, and savory smothered biscuits and gravy. Arlington's Best Cheap Eats 2011-11-08T19:20:02.173Z

“I think it’s important to create artworks for the public to have all kinds of conversations — be they critical or playful or anything else.” Artists Explore A.I., With Some Deep Unease 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

They can be playful, funny, anarchic, satirical, didactic, and mean, in order to reveal ingeniously something about ourselves. Paris Sirens 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

And here are some playful mentions thrown in for good measure: Celebrities Congratulate Chelsea Clinton on Her New Baby Girl 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z

This season is simultaneously mournful and playful, full of dramatic showpieces and inspired absurdities. Review: ‘The Leftovers’ Has One More Cosmic Joke to Tell 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

But my father was in a playful mood, and he paid no attention to my mother’s protestations as he tickled me and said it again. Azar Nafisi: “Over the years I have often thought of Alice as my ideal reader” 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

On the other side, a bronze sculpture by Otto Neals portrays a boy seated on a rock reading, one hand stretched toward a playful dachshund; a little bronze chair sits nearby. Science and Secrets in City Playgrounds 2011-04-14T22:10:38Z

The famous eye gouging, which might be expected to be too much for children, is handled with playful humor that keeps it gross enough to be icky without actually being scary. | 'Nearly Lear': An Answer to a Crying Need: ?King Lear? for Children 2011-01-10T23:30:23Z

Roach takes their writhing to be playful exuberance before Peck notes, “They do cannibalize.” Yes, there are maggots: Mary Roach's 'Grunt' delights in the physicalities of going to war 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

She embodied her own aesthetic, with her proto-1960s bouffant, nerd glasses and playful grin. Kate Spade, Whose Handbags Carried Women Into Adulthood, Is Dead at 55 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

When Colbert was announced to replace Letterman, some wondered whether the playful connection could continue, given that they would now compete for the same viewers and guests. Bring back the Jay Leno and David Letterman feuds: What’s lost in the nice, new late-night of Colbert, Fallon and Kimmel 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

This proved true in the Concerti, which had a playful kind of complexity in the performance Mr. Sachs drew from the accomplished ensemble and the brilliant soloist, the violinist Julia Glenn. Review: Milton Babbitt Inspires a Focus! Festival Tribute 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

With clever lyrics, contemporary music, and a playful relationship at its center, drama is ever present in this look at romance, ambition and fame. 'The Last Five Years' feels a bit stage-bound 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Moore injects plenty of playful effervescence into the show’s tension — particularly in Alida’s exuberant numbers, “Oh How I Love Being Rich” and “Bad Boys,” and her dripping-with-decadence dresses. Review: ‘The Streets of New York’ Is a Good Old Melodrama 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z

The sprightly meter of the text abounds with exact rhymes and slant rhymes, as well as playful consonance, assonance and alliteration, carrying along the play’s stream-of-consciousness-styled progression of ideas. Review: Bringing Borges to Life in ‘Footnote for the End of Time’ 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z

“A pleasure dome decreed by a man who insisted, out of the one dark fear we all know about, that all the surfaces be gay and brilliant and playful.” Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

In the Scherzo, Aizuri’s syncopations were playful yet meticulous while, in the finale, the quartet bided its time, allowing the icy melancholy to melt into radiant sunbeams. In Aizuri Quartet, a natural bond and a captivating performance 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

The propaganda pamphlets are by turns angry and playful. Revisiting the Fervor of the Women’s Suffrage Movement 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

Ms. Sherman is a wonderful model for the clothes, adapting her hair, makeup and posture to each period with playful accuracy. Art Review: Bill Cunningham’s ‘Facades’: The Book as Exhibition 2014-03-13T20:25:16Z

Also in the show are playful works that depict the female form and, in the case of The Scream, act as a tongue-in-cheek update on iconic images in art history. Tracey Emin's Neon Works on View at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami 2013-12-05T05:00:00Z

The accents and humor are incorporated not so much with a playful wink as an enjoyable eye roll. A Change Purse in T-Rex Skin, Perhaps? 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Much of the festival felt more playful than political. Honk! Festival of Street Bands in Somerville, Mass. 2012-10-09T00:49:03Z

When Broadway hosted two productions from the company last season with the luminous Mark Rylance starring, a certain playful mood was certainly in the air. The Shakespeare Globe’s Informal ‘King Lear’ at the Skirball 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

Those qualities, in changing proportions, animated his soulful account of the Andante and his commanding but playful reading of the spirited finale. Music Review: Caramoor International Music Festival 2012 in Katonah 2012-06-24T22:08:50Z

At other times, it’s rowdy and playful, displaying an enormous sense of energy, strength and good will. Review: ‘Material Witness’ Explores Violence Against Indigenous Women 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

Western viewers may not catch all of Ms. Cao’s cultural references but will grasp the playful and sinister implications of her medium. Art in Review: CAO FEI: ?Play Time? 2011-05-26T21:50:35Z

Soon she and Vinny have established a playful rapport that causes Edgar to whimper and simper in jealousy. Theater Review: ?Asuncion? at the Cherry Lane Theater ? Review 2011-10-28T02:00:00Z

In one restless passage for the bassoons, Bernstein found the playing too jittery and playful. When Bernstein Conducted Stravinsky, Modern Music Came Alive 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

The playful face-off had been captured by a camera from the gossip site The Shade Room, and the video spread quickly. Jack Harlow Knows What He Wants. And Where He Stands. 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Smith was playful, open and demystifying. Music Review: ‘Ten Freedom Summers,’ by Wadada Leo Smith 2013-05-03T05:55:12Z

This playful show features the overly clever, extremely witty Shawn Spencer who uses his heightened powers of observation to serve as the resident psychic for the Santa Barbara Police Department. 26 Streaming Shows You Should Get Addicted to This Winter 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z

With impressive subtlety, the translations recreate the playful irony that undercuts the incessant anguish in each story, an anguish that can become predictable and therefore tiresome. ‘The World Goes On’ — and So Do the Sentences 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Whether being allusive, ironic, aphoristic or downright playful, Eliot shows the full power of her intellectual arsenal. Epigraphs: opening possibilities | Toby Lichtig 2010-03-30T12:00:00Z

Her songs are cunning and serious or playful and exuberant but always carefully made. Rickie Lee Jones and James Taylor 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

I alternately found his ideas and directorial touches insightful, playful, affecting, intrusive and juvenile. Music Review: Wagner’s ‘Ring’ Opens at Bayreuth With Reality-Cam Touch 2013-07-28T21:38:06Z

This enjoyable book delivers a lesson, and its playful drawings invite the young reader into a wonderful place somewhere between fantasy and reality. In These Stunning Picture Books, Children Navigate a Big, Wide World 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

And is the playful younger one an asset or an embarrassment to this fashion family, part of the Richemont group? Chloe and Rykiel Secondary Lines Are Coming Into Their Own 2012-02-28T17:49:32Z

That voice is airborne and supple, tenderly concerned, playful and percussive; then it grows increasingly tense, distraught, desolate, embittered. Michael Jackson, the Remix 2014-05-07T16:08:06Z

You go to Trump events for "The Daily Show" and have sincere, earnest conversations with people, even though you're being playful. Jordan Klepper: GOP sees "Hungary as a conservative wonderland" 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Between treatments, I rebelled with runs and an occasional drink, and when my husband took my glass, what once had been playful now seemed paternal. Our infertile years 2012-11-19T00:59:00Z

It’s playful and clever, and its well-sketched characters are primarily just hanging around — interactions aren’t plot driven so much as proximity driven. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

In a way, this is a kind of mindfulness, it's a kind of attentiveness, but maybe a more playful, loose kind of mindfulness or attentiveness. Sad after losing your sense of smell to COVID? Turns out there's a link between sense and happiness 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

Several dozen of the playful if incorrigibly hierarchical monkeys live atop Mount Takao, in Tokyo prefecture’s northwest corner, about an hour from Shinjuku by train. Fawning over fauna: A guide to Tokyo’s menagerie of animal cafes 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

It's all very playful and cute—so cute that at first I thought, "Well, this isn't going to work." A Beguiling Beginners: Christopher Plummer, Ewan McGregor and a Talking Dog Learn to Start Over 2011-06-03T10:05:00Z

To engage in playful, inventive thinking, and possibly create wealth for oneself during those idle hours spent at an airport, requires silence. Sherry Turkle’s ‘Reclaiming Conversation’ 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

Two performers, helped by a box with movable panels that looks as if it may really take flight in the final magical sequence, offer a series of playful and sometimes surreal encounters. Parachutists Or On the Art of Falling ? review 2010-10-22T21:17:00Z

This is partly because, unlike the boys, we have first been allowed to know Martha as she was — as a book-loving, playful and utterly unworldly girl. 'Liberian Girl’: A Harrowing Descent Into War 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

But it is the moody Gothic ambience of the BBC production that contrasts most starkly with the playful musical. Left hanging by Dickens' 'Edwin Drood'? 2 takes coming our way 2012-04-04T20:36:04Z

The playful response: "That is not a question." | Stephen Amell 2012-11-26T18:30:53Z

The piece is a postmodern remix that blends Schubert’s yearning melodies with tone clusters and playful gestures — even whistling. Martha Memories: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

"It was about transforming the meaning of the material; not romantic, not historical, not old, to something light, playful, colorful and modern - with energy." Dior presents cruise fashions amid stars in Monaco 2013-05-19T12:40:12Z

I’m my so-called self, and I’m spontaneous, and I’m playful, and I’m genuinely curious about these things, so I had a blast.” Jeff Goldblum Goes Wild With Wes Anderson and Thelonious Monk 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

“And if you want to listen to the loving Bob, the revolutionary Bob, the playful Bob — it’s all there.” Chris Blackwell Is Music’s Quietest ‘Record Man.’ His Artists Speak Loudly. 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

“But I also know she has this playful, wacky element to her as well. She is willing to abandon herself to madcap humor.” As She-Hulk, Tatiana Maslany Is Beautiful When She’s Angry 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

There is Mexican music, and what Silvers referred to as science experiments — explorations of synchronized movement performed in colorful lab aprons, turned backward — as well as more playful “girl group sections.” Dream Logic Mixed With ‘a Catalog of My Interests Back in 1996’ 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

While others are kind, generous, funny, shy, curious, playful and all the other things a person can be. As Iranians rise up, it's time we also challenged the stereotype of the misogynist Iranian man 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z

They'll get their chance next weekend when three new Wevers dances — two of them playful, one intense and sobering — are premiered at "Cast the First Rock in Twenty Twelve." Seattle's Whim W'Him is troupe of the moment 2012-01-11T22:03:04Z

The concert opener, Haydn’s Variations in F minor, was limpid and gorgeously colored, with playful flourishes that led to an explosive coda. Buttoned-down pianist Murray Perahia cuts loose in Strathmore concert 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

Rather, Oscar's sensibilities are so perfectly fitted to our time: sarcastic, idealistic, playful, gloomy, melodramatic, conflicted. Dorian Gray's true picture of Oscar Wilde 2010-04-29T09:01:00Z

They included square travel bags, hefty socks with mountain boots and another playful essential for the traveling man: a mini-flask dangling from the belt. 2010-01-25T16:44:00Z

There were insightful musical touches in her playing, as in the grim episode with weighty chords that leads to a contrasting playful theme. Music Review: Philharmonic, With Jaap van Zweden Conducting Yuja Wang 2012-04-13T20:58:17Z

On a chilly February afternoon, sunlight streams through the windows of the Frye Art Museum, calling attention to the playful shapes and colors on display. Frye’s ‘Art on the Mind’ exhibit marks 10 years of creative program for people living with dementia 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

It has a lot of integrity, but it’s also playful; it’s very technical, but it’s also fun. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love 21st-Century Jazz 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

There’s a peppy soundtrack and a visually playful style which often involves freeze-framing the action around Marty so he can explain jargon or tactics to us. TV Weekend: Scenes from the Class Struggle, with Downton Abbey and House of Lies 2012-01-06T16:54:11Z

The fare is more playful and adventurous than that of his formal restaurant next door. The U.S. Issue: 36 Hours in Kansas City, Mo. 2010-05-13T19:19:00Z

There was something playful about his use of feathers as plumes rising from the bodice of a slender lace dress or a leopard print tufted with fur. Special Report: Fashion: Givenchy: Pure Is Beautiful 2011-07-05T17:12:09Z

The influence of Mr. Price, an influential sculptor and ceramist from Venice, Calif., who died in 2012, hovers over a lot Mr. Rogen’s recent work — the bulbous shapes, nubby textures and playful explosions of color. Seth Rogen Is All Fired Up 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z

But Book I begins with Debussy’s playful parody of a beginning student’s five-finger exercise. Music Review: Nicolas Hodges, Pianist, at Zankel Hall 2013-01-23T21:55:16Z

This kitchen, with its bright colors and playful mix of styles, packs as much pick-me-up punch as a morning cup of coffee. Style Guide: 80 Tasty Kitchens 2011-02-28T16:20:09.800Z

Ranging from playful to political in character, the exhibit encompasses photography, sound installations, sculpture and more. 'The Record' goes beyond vinyl and turntables 2012-08-15T20:29:04Z

Among the journalists I most admire is Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor and proprietor of the London Review of Books, which succeeds in being authoritative, deadly serious and playful all at the same time. Richard Lloyd Parry: By the Book 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

Ostensibly Beth left him because of growing unease about their shared occupation, but Kennedy is a playful writer and from the outset drops hints that we are being carefully manipulated. The Blue Book by AL Kennedy ? review 2011-08-12T21:55:06Z

With a virtual reality piece featuring the basketball star Jeremy Lin and a sound installation using imaginary instruments, this iteration will be the most playful. Hong Kong’s Youth Culture, Captured in Disturbing Animations 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

The Spinning Wheel, one of her signature pieces, is a ring-shaped golden cage pendant in which the stones roll like pebbles, a playful counterpoint of sound and motion. Special Report: Jewelry: Playful Jewelry Moves and Upends Tradition 2010-05-20T13:30:00Z

Within the forests are playful rock gardens, fun for jumping when the snow is deep. Four ways to ski British Columbia’s legendary powder highway 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

And the climax, in classic Savall style, was a playful, gently swaying improvisation on a Renaissance “canario” dance melody, building into flurries of notes frizzling off Mr. Savall’s tiny treble viol. A Musical Handshake Spanning Centuries: Venice in New York 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

You have people who are playful and people who are serious. Kyle Pruett on Fatherhood 2012-07-23T11:00:00Z

“Lonely Lover” is a playful little plaint: “Give a little space ‘cause I’m going insane/And I just need to breathe today,” she sings, with a poise and agility that suggest she’ll get by. The Playlist: Beck Wows, the Avalanches Collapse and Kanye West Finds a Few Champions 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

“Well,” she says with a playful grin, “if you’re interested in investing . . . ” I rented my 26th great-grandfather’s Welsh castle, and so could you 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Follow Mr. Burnett’s and Mr. Evans’s teachings, and the anxiety-ridden process of decision making suddenly seems more playful. Want to Find Fulfillment at Last? Think Like a Designer 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

So do the movement formations, as the choreography converses with the many tones — jazzy, industrial, playful — in Cage’s score. Dance Review: Molissa Fenley and Dancers at Judson Memorial Church - Review 2012-01-10T23:37:41Z

Many of the posters reveal a playful sensibility and global influences such as Bauhaus design from Germany and drawing styles from Mexican murals. Meet the National Parks’ ‘Ranger of the Lost Art’ 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

The Osmonds know better than to take their fame for granted, so while the evening is appealingly playful, the act is also admirably hard-working. They’re a little bit durable: Donny and Marie bring Christmas show to National

In turns, the series is furious, celebratory, at times heart-wrenching, at times funny and playful. Review: ‘It’s a Sin’ Tells the Stories That Were and Could Have Been 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

“Signals,” despite the din and modernist austerity, is witty and playful. Review: Taking a Chance on Merce Cunningham 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

Once in, I wandered through galleries containing objects from the permanent collection and special exhibitions that explore the X-rated world in serious or playful or sometimes silly ways. The Met, they’re not: The oddest museums in New York City 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

This new video, an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at recording the track “Sacred Heart,” captures a playful, if fleeting, moment of armistice. | All Is Not Lost for the Civil Wars 2013-08-19T21:00:37Z

Mr. Cantu, one of the Windy City’s most renowned chefs, turned cooking into alchemy through his playful and surprising brand of molecular gastronomy at Moto, the restaurant he led in the city’s West Loop. Homaro Cantu, Chicago chef who blended food and science, dies at 38 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

Erica Schmidt’s playful riff on Shakespeare’s tragedy, which finds a group of schoolgirls staging the Scottish play, ends its bloody run. 13 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

While the must-have earrings of the last seasons tended to be boldly minimalist or made of precious and semiprecious metals, this spring’s must-haves are playful and packed with color. The Top 5 Ways to Update Your Look 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

“It has such a playful quality to it, but it’s very precise.” Mary Weatherford Brings ‘Horror and Beauty’ to Venice 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

My favorite store was Etude House, a pink fever dream filled with inventive products in playful packaging, geared to teenagers and 20-somethings but owned by the Korean beauty powerhouse Amore Pacific. A Look at Korea’s Culture From the Bathhouse 2014-02-07T19:35:43Z

Part of it was serious, and part of it was playful banter, Christine says. On Love: Christine Allie & Stuart Lazar 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Overall, the show feels more experimental and absurd, possibly even more playful than “Breaking Bad.” Review of AMC’s ‘Better Call Saul’: Every sleazeball has a story to tell 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

These include playful figures now scaled up to 14 feet high; interlocking biomorphic shapes with geometric black-and-white patterning that serve as benches; and abstracted scribbles transformed into hedge-like structures that children can zigzag between. New Arts Complex Aims to Build Community in Detroit 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

Brown continues to do everything in his playful power to ensure that will happen. In Dan Brown’s ‘Origin,’ Robert Langdon Returns, With an A.I. Friend in Tow 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

As television fodder like “When Animals Attack!” proves, death piques human interest in animals as much as “aww” images of playful kittens do. | 'The Last Lions': Tooth-and-Claw Life of a Dedicated Single Mother 2011-02-17T23:28:26Z

A playful breed with an oddly expressive, almost human face, this breed spurs baby fever in the most callous of hearts. The 5 Most Popular Dogs on Instagram 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z

It is fiercely earnest and intense, with even less of the playful quirkiness that serves as comic relief on many a CBS procedural. Television Review: On the Scent of Psychopaths: Penetrating the Criminal Mind 2011-02-15T22:51:38Z

The colors are either elegant monochromes or mixed up in playful zebra prints, classic checks and mod color blocking. Designers in New York keeping it simple with black and white 2013-09-08T22:59:00Z

“My Monkey Grifter” takes the incredulity felt by people who didn’t buy into the anthropomorphic narrative of “My Octopus Teacher” and parlays it into a playful lark that mixes natural history and true crime. ‘Documentary Now!’ Review: The Comfort We’ve Been Waiting For 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z

Part of what makes the emotional power of the ending surprising is that the film initially comes across as a cool, playful intellectual exercise. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Je T’Aime, Je T’Aime,’ Explores Time and Memory 2014-02-13T23:06:59Z

To make that point, Bolaño borrowed some of the defining aesthetics of American counterculture, using the Beats’ spontaneity, humor, and playful rejection of narrative to study the ravages of the state. Roberto Bolaño and the Beat Connection 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

“He was deeply kind, often playful, gently yet fiercely devoted to the composer and his colleagues onstage,” Mr. Stewart wrote in an email. Robert Black, Bass Virtuoso of the Avant-Garde, Is Dead at 67 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

Instead, the production takes the form of an intimate and playful show that begins with a phone call to your mobile. This week's new theatre 2012-11-24T00:05:41Z

She wrote a playful poem on the joys of the library for National Libraries Day in February, saying it was more fun than writing an "earnest" article. EL James, JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel … the women who dominated publishing in 2012 2012-11-30T22:55:17Z

It’s a good joke, knowing and playful in the style that Gadsby, a star in her home country, has built her comedy career on. The Comedian Forcing Stand-Up to Confront the #MeToo Era 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

Though she is more than capable of tossing off playful comets of notes, and she agreeably sings quick, comic songs, it’s for her calm subtlety that she is most notable. Pretty Yende’s New York Recital Debut 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

Nevertheless, Carey is a playful writer whose charming sentences are works of careful craftsmanship. Review | In Edward Carey’s ‘The Swallowed Man,’ ‘Pinocchio’ gets a reboot 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

The Italian theatrical form commedia dell’arte, popular from the 16th century to the 18th century, introduced the mischievous Harlequin and the object of his affection, Columbine, whose father attempts to thwart their playful relationship. 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

For me, she needs to be more playful with lots of emotion. Wanted for ‘Don Q’: 2 Ballerinas, Experience and Comic Skills a Plus 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

His playful verse was infectious; newspaper profiles often carried headlines like “Poem on the Range” and “Write ’em, Cowboy.” Baxter Black, Who Elevated Cowboy Poetry to Folk Art, Dies at 77 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

I found this book to be unbearably moving in its playful, strange, soulful assessment of what it means to be alive at a somber time. He’s 101, She’s 32, and It’s the End of the World 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

In Part 2, Jung switches between color and grainy black and white in a way that can't help but call attention to itself but nonetheless serves the story's playful dream state. "Cafe Noir" a Seoul-set elegy to lost romance 2010-07-06T23:39:00Z

It's less "serious" and more playful -- yet equally reverent to its subject. Cirque du Soleil's "Viva Elvis" outfabs Beatles 2010-02-21T23:34:00Z

Published in a large, glossy format, the periodical was known for playful graphics, pop culture imagery, and unexpectedly clever advertising. Celebrating Bau, Vienna’s Influential Architecture Magazine 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

For most writers, an impulse to capture the bewilderment of moving through a bank-ridden city might lead to a playful list of half a dozen bank names. ‘The World Goes On’ — and So Do the Sentences 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Buffy was also incredibly creative, playful television, weaving what might have been gimmicks - a musical episode, an almost-entirely-silent episode - seamlessly into the story in a way which has often been imitated but rarely equalled. The legacy of Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2013-12-24T08:40:49Z

Asawa’s playful depiction of communal gathering and entertainment seems to deride the isolation of detention. The Defiantly Everyday Drawings of Fatima Meer 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

Donna Quinones, who works at Lester’s, recalled Mr. Powell as a playful colleague who liked dressing up in Halloween costumes, pulling pranks on his co-workers, and often trying on new scents throughout the day. Chasing the Scent of a Brooklyn Fragrance Lover 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

These tributes described Moore’s James Bond as “comic,” “playful,” “winking” and employ similar maybe less generous terms that pointed at the actor’s less-than-serious, less-than-intimidating take on the role. Roger Moore wasn’t a good Bond, but he was my Bond 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

The same distinct sound was heard in the thwap of the snare on “It Is What It Is” and the playful shimmer of “You’re Not Good Enough,” both from 2013’s “Cupid Deluxe.” Review | Blood Orange wows sold-out crowd at Lincoln Theatre 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z

It’s playful with sound and echo, pop and American-classical traditions, and relationships between foreground and background. Playlist : Indie Sounds Abound: Some Playful, Some Pop 2011-08-12T19:13:35Z

Because none of them have either the brains or the balls to create something as randomly spectacular and dangerously playful as the fine work Johnny Knoxville and his cronies deliver. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011-03-12T00:07:20Z

It's neatly done and there are some playful moments – a box turns into a swimming pool, a bath and a wardrobe in quick succession – and some Alice in Wonderland-style nods to perspective and size. Toujours et Pr?s de Moi ? review 2012-05-16T17:21:27Z

Life is noticeably more different over at Jimmy Fallon’s eclectically decorated homestead, which includes a restored barn where a playful indoor slide connects one floor to another. Perspective | Stars are working to stay afloat with Zoom and improvised efforts. But it’ll never match TV’s liveliness. 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z

Yet the mood is not grim but playful. High-End Works Toying With Politically Loaded Signifiers 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Ultimately there’s something sinister about the song’s playful ambiguity, as we’ll never truly know if she wants to stay or if it’s just the roofie talking. Is “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” a date-rape anthem? 2012-12-10T21:14:00Z

Their characters are playful and frisky, in sync with their eye rolling and mouthing of apologies from across a room. ‘You People’ Review: Guess Who’s Going to Roscoe’s 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

Before it gets playful, though, Body Talk Pt 2 is inviting. Robyn: Body Talk Pt 2 2010-08-26T14:30:00Z

His influence is explicit in Ligeti's early Concerto Românesc, a playful homage that emulates Bartók's use of folk melodies and playing styles. SCO/Elts 2010-05-05T21:00:00Z

His beautiful distilled and playful drawings and his ability to literally give shape to thought finally won me over. First Encounters with the Art and Presence of Saul Steinberg 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

That’s not to say that Michael has hardened into a formal shell; he stays playful and supportive of Jonathan’s dreams. In ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!,’ Robin de Jesús Knew He Could Do It 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

Ms. Taylor added: “We have had such an incredible reaction and broadened the audience that knows about the brand. It shows we’re taking a risk and being playful.” Even if You Can’t Afford Designer Clothes, Your Bitmoji Can 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

Flavie+Paul, a young Parisian design duo, created a colorful, playful ambiance with the modern decoration and space-saving elements in the guest rooms. Can’t decide where to stay in Paris? A guide for every type of traveler. 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

Great at bringing their more playful, loving, earlier selves to life, equally good at exposing their irritated, not so forgiving sides. With 'The One I Love,' a relationship gets trippy 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Play and a playful attitude are not just enjoyable, they’re an essential ingredient of good mental health. Why play is important to us all 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

“The store has a real sense of playful adventure while still maintaining a range of wearability for the everyday cool girl-slash-woman.” Up Close: The Roundabout Route to NoLIta 2011-04-20T17:49:41Z

The collection hinted at the past with the gelled, waved hairstyles of the 1920s, fascinator-inspired headpieces and playful polka-dots — while rooting itself firmly in the present with totally transparent tops and skirts. Armani Privé sends pastel rainbow gliding down Paris runway 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

What I've always loved about "Diet for a Small Planet" is that playful party spirit, and its understanding that revolutionary cooking can be still cheap and simple. A revolutionary, crunchy bean pie for a small planet 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

The tweets are brave, profound, playful, lyrical, despairing and occasionally very funny. A Writer Collapses. As He Recovers, His Dispatches Captivate Readers 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z

He ended the concert with Dukas’ playful “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” which is full of clumsy footfalls. Getting to know — or at least trying to — Matthias Pintscher at an L.A. Phil concert 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z

Thereafter, Aimard struck something like form, was poetic if restrained in the Larghetto, and traversed the final rondo with playful grace. BBCSO/Nott 2010-08-03T10:47:00Z

Thankfully, “Rusty Brown” is also playful and funny. It All Started in Omaha 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

That hat began a thousand memes and reintroduced him as a benevolent, playful figure of modern R&B-pop. VMA Contenders Include Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus and Pharrell Williams 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Ms. Brown, however, insists that the images are essentially playful puns, offering “heavy subject matter dealt with,” she said, “with a very light touch.” At These Exhibitions, Death Is a Lively Subject 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

"Requests can feel playful or demanding or condescending. It's the tone." 7 secrets to improve your relationship in the new year 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z

By turns heartwarming, scary, playful and groovy, this recording reveals worlds inside a single instrument. Classical Playlist: Matt Haimovitz, Avalon String Quartet and Eighth Blackbird 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

This Poirot is playful, boyish, even a bit whimsical; Ustinov imbues him with a light, teasing air, finding a latent amusement in even the most diabolical matters. What Makes a Good Hercule Poirot? (It’s More Than the Little Gray Cells.) 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

Wouldn’t it be more fun and attract more solvers if puzzles were a little more playful? Merl Reagle, Whose Crossword Puzzles Delighted Clued-In Solvers, Dies at 65 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

Regular in size and shape, the discs define the pieces’ circles-within-squares layouts, but don’t limit their playful themes. Review | In the galleries: Rejuvenating the obsolete into unconventional art 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

The singularity of Boseman’s measured, charismatic yet playful performance helped shape the legacy of “Black Panther,” making role and actor almost synonymous and inspiring millions of children worldwide to see themselves in a Black superhero. The Women of ‘Wakanda Forever’ 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

We need more playful curiosity in psychology laboratories and among the directors of the agencies awarding funds for the study of psychological phenomena. Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z

This resulted in him giving a weather update with playful mask filters over his face. North Carolina reporter accidentally turns on silly Facebook filters before live broadcast 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

As they work their way through ballet positions, the children are given playful facial expressions by Bereciartu: Tongues stick out when steps become complicated; hilarious frozen smiles appear when they try to balance. 5 Dance Picture Books 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

I sidled up to PokeHaus, which serves trendy Hawaiian poke bowls in three playful options — Salmon L. Jackson, Tuna Turner or To-Fu Panda. A Prague Food Market Spans the Globe 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z

Many have a playful, impish quality, and they seem to stand out at the same time that they blend in. TriBeCa Gallery Guide: New York’s Most Vibrant Art Scene 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

However playful, “Hunters” is, at its core, intensely serious. In ‘Hunters,’ Al Pacino Stalks Nazis Into New Territory 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

They are playful combinations on global flavors we really enjoy and can't get enough of. How masa harina changed the course of human history — and gave us better tacos 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z

“But he was different then. He was impish. He was playful, innocent. No danger.” Dave Chappelle Isn’t Canceled. He Just Likes to Talk About It. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

Some of the subversive edge is dulled, however, by a set that is more literal than playful. Stones in His Pockets – review 2012-07-12T16:53:38Z

Their video chats quickly went from friendly to playful. Two Animal Lovers Meet at a Tiki Bar 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

The music of the party scene, with its playful marches and stately gavotte, is pleasant and lovely, but the real joy of Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker” doesn’t begin until Clara goes to bed. Why Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Nutcracker’ is the sound of the holidays for so many of us 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

We're playful when we hold two spheres of belief in our brains overlapping. Noises off: What's the difference between performance art and theatre? 2010-07-20T14:06:00Z

Visitors, especially young ones, will enjoy the site’s interactive elements, including the friendly, fluorescent sting rays that dart beneath your feet and the playful sea lions that respond to hand gestures. From undercover to underwater: Four new Times Square attractions offer a variety of immersive experiences 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

The decadent, playful tasting menus cost a fraction of what you’d expect in pricey Stockholm, and forget elegant Scandinavian décor. A Once-Dead Stockholm Enclave Gets a Shot of Youthful Energy 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Yoox’s “Style Gift Guide” is a playful shopping application available free from the iTunes store, which was introduced shortly before Christmas. Special Report: In the Palm of Your Hand.... 2010-03-08T18:47:00Z

The patio is more playful, outfitted with orange Ping-Pong tables and shuffleboard courts. America's Coolest Rooftop Bars 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Their names are playful: squashberries, wild beach plums, mayhaw, snowberries and the dreamily named cloudberry. On your next summer vacation, look for berried treasure 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

A sophisticated new kind of playful post-reality show was required to discover such a character. Paul Morley introduces Showing Off ... Dance 2010-04-23T16:07:00Z

It’s a magnificent, humbling space, full of ancient interest, but my attention is drawn to the playful, elegant multicolored checkerboard stained-glass windows at the southern end, created by German artist Gerhard Richter in 2006. Dusseldorf vs. Cologne: A rivalry you can grin and beer 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Many of the 18 rooms, which start at 90 euros, still have sections of their ancient brick walls intact, but the interiors are playful and contemporary: bold colors, bean-bag chairs, oversize canvases of birds. 36 Hours in Vilnius, Lithuania 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

Six dancers flit and hover in this space like playful, restless spirits. Dance Review | Juilliard Dance: Juilliard Dances Repertory: Robbins, Cunningham, Taylor 2010-03-29T05:02:00Z

Sure, there are occasional bouts of earnestness, but much of the material is playful and even peppy, with passages set to an unimaginative assortment of show tune instrumentals and classical jingles. Review: Helen Keller’s Words and Seven Actors in ‘Three Days to See’ 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

Yet Rose seemed ill at ease with Schubert’s more playful and amorous moods. From promising U.K. singer Matthew Rose, inconsistent recital at Kennedy Center

A family portrait in sound, all the warts and quirks of querulous aunts, sleepy, slow-walking uncles and playful kids were vivid in this short stunner, and the performance captured the essence of each character. An assured, polished concert from Imani Winds 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

Settle Down is a playful piece of backyard-barbecue pop-ska, while Sparkle's fusion of reggae horns and bright melody is an exercise in sweet nostalgia. No Doubt: Push and Shove – review 2012-09-27T21:15:04Z

She has a steely disposition that can bend lithely into playful humour. Angelina Jolie springs back to life from a career slumber in Maleficent 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

But the script struggles to channel the character’s wonderfully playful, acerbic spirit. ‘The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic’ Review: Just Like the Movies 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

Morris’s suggestion that they burn her letter is greeted by Zachariah at first with a playful rebuff, to be followed by a truculent resistance. Theater Review: ?Blood Knot,? by Athol Fugard, at Signature Theater 2012-02-17T03:00:00Z

The evening will include her playful “Small Stages,” choreographed for a tiny platform measuring six feet on each side. Dance Listings for Sept. 26-Oct. 2 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

It's a rich sculpture, playful but also serious. Fourth plinth battle: the heroic child takes the cake 2010-08-19T14:44:00Z

Half a dozen slipcovered ottomans masquerade as hamburgers, providing playful seating on a carpet striped in black and blue. Alex Da Corte set Pop aflame at Art + Practice 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

And in Bogotá, Colombia, traffic police were replaced with mimes in the hope of supplanting corruption and violence with playful street theater. Art Review: Noguchi Museum Features Art as Urban Planning - Review 2011-12-08T23:42:53Z

“Immigration is a topic that touches many lives, and ‘You know who I am’ addresses that experience in an accessible and even playful way,” said Cecilia Alemani, director and chief curator of High Line Art. Paola Pivi’s American Moment 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

But it's quickly evident that this is no public television affair — though there is some playful straining against the genre's conventions. No happy trees here – HBO's "Painting With John" is a dark and dreamy contemplation of artistry 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z

He was never afraid to be goofy and playful, either, taking the conceit far beyond simple mimicry of O'Reilly's tics or attitudes. Stephen Colbert departs, and his Nation mourns 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

Randall Arney directs his excellent cast with playful warmth and a keen sensitivity to the generosity and complexity of Smith’s characterizations. The Silver Lake young(ish) professional, adrift in 'Icebergs' at the Geffen Playhouse 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Moloko’s four increasingly dance-floor-minded albums were complemented by explosive concerts, but it was only after its breakup that Murphy truly refined her trademark fusion of glossy sheen and playful experimentation. Róisín Murphy, a Disco Queen Ruling Her Own Galaxy 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

In various parts of the palace, a playful approach is taken to ideas of exterior and interior. Exhibition Review: Temptations Found in Gardens of Islamic Delight 2011-05-20T23:27:00Z

The haunted piano-wire of Before I Move Off is nicely offset by a strolling guitar riff and playful vocals. Guardian First Album award: nominations 2010-12-23T22:15:01Z

Everything that was playful and fun about my gender expression at home was immediately complicated by the way people perceive me in public. My hot trans boy summer: On re-emerging from pandemic lockdown as a boy 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z

She's got one of the most distinctive pop-vocal sounds around, a high, candied coo that was unmistakable radio fare in the mid-1980s on infectiously playful hits like "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." Review: Cyndi Lauper proves she knows how to have fun with the blues 2010-09-03T18:49:00Z

Racists deployed a playful cartoon frog to sugar their messages. What Tweets and Emojis Did to the Novel 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

I reflect on it in a playful and real-time way. "Havana is . . . the fantasy of Americans": Filmmaker on capturing the "utopia" of Cuba in new doc 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

Smith’s writing is light and playful, deceptively simple, skipping along like a stone on the surface of a lake, brimming with humanity and bending, despite everything, toward hope. Reviews for All the Books on the Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

A white column dress in viscose crepe had a sublime undulating cutaway at the chest to give it a playful, modernist vibe. Race, age, weight: Valentino backs diversity in Paris show 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

Towering over the region, the Pitons create the effect of two wildly different movie sets: By day they are jaunty and playful; by night, they’re ominous shadows, shrouded in stars. A Chocolate Tour of the Caribbean 2012-11-09T19:17:51Z

He, like the Frenchman, is at the centre of his own universe: fearless and determined, an artist whose own readymades are also often superficially playful but contain profound questions and statements. Putting modern art on the map 2012-08-24T20:35:17Z

Mess, a playful play about anorexia, stops off at the Octagon in Bolton where you can also see The Glass Menagerie. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-04-12T12:06:57Z

A number about duelling protocol called “Ten Duel Commandments”, for example, offers a playful nod to the Notorious B.I.G’s tips on drug dealing, “The Ten Crack Commandments”. Patriotism on Broadway 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

In rapturous yet playful lines, she sings about her man: the bigness of his frame and smile; his head “full of big ideas”; his voice. Review: Police Violence Reaches Opera in ‘Blue’ 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

Also the language between soldiers — the kind of playful, almost sexual language that’s used under those conditions — is a major element. Producer of ‘Bourne’ series turns his hand to a low-budget, psychological thriller. 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Rival sound-system crews engage in acts of playful sabotage; racist police and neighbors hassle them; friends give up on their dreams and turn their attention to making a quick, cynical buck. What “Babylon” Captured About Racism and Reggae 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

The mischievous denial of his title’s obvious allusion is consistent with Mr. Naharin’s playful humor. Ohad Naharin and Batsheva Come to BAM With ?Hora? 2012-03-02T23:55:14Z

Their deeply chocolaty, moist cake is infused with a playful hint of peppermint, and their whipped cream cheese frosting is sprinkled with holiday spirit in the form of crushed candy canes. The sweet, petite, healthful Christmas treat 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

“In a way, it was like I embodied the spirit of the highlands, very light, very playful” Ms. Wilde said. When City Center Was Balanchine’s House 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

And he observed that the phrase f*** you rarely appears with an emoticon, because those playful little symbols can trivialize feelings like totally hating someone’s guts. Here Are Rules of Using Emoji You Didn't Know You Were Following 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

His technique, especially in his ceramics, can be simultaneously playful and crude, primitive and ornate, effusive and blunt. New at the Henry Art Gallery: Jeffry Mitchell, Laurie Anderson and more 2012-11-20T21:29:03Z

Pinstripes were taken for a playful spin at the round of fashion shows just ended. Browsing: Spring Fashion That Makes a Statement 2014-03-19T22:13:25Z

But the coercive tension in the tune, such as it was, had as much to do with the prickly, playful give-and-take as the specifics of the language. Holiday Tunes That Soothe, Provoke and Share a Joke 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Earlier this month, the same employee shared a playful video clarifying the rules for traveling with the hazelnut spread Nutella, as well as another clip offering tips for Valentine’s Day travel. TSA bans employees from using TikTok on behalf of agency following Schumer's complaints 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

This clever, playful show, which opened at 54 Below on Tuesday evening, is her most ambitious adventure yet in zany, erudite musical biography. Nellie McKay Plays the Drag King Billy Tipton at 54 Below 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

Richard Donner, the tough, single-minded but playful film director who made Christopher Reeve’s Superman fly, Mel Gibson’s deranged detective lethal and the young stars of “The Goonies” pirate-adorable, died on Monday. Richard Donner, Director of ‘Superman’ and ‘Lethal Weapon’ Films, Dies at 91 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z

Strange and squelchy and all kinds of sick, “Mad God” comes at you with nauseating energy, its flood of dystopian images both playful and repulsive. ‘Mad God’ Review: Highway to Hell 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

“Legend” demonstrates the kind of playful energy and inventive mind needed to sustain a modern dance career for five decades. Review: For the Martha Graham Company, Opposites Attract 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

She adopts a wry, confident and sometimes even playful tone. Madness in Massachusetts 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

But this boxing story is playful and affectionate, though still biting. What Hemingway Left in Sloppy Joe’s Bar 80 Years Ago 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

Less playful, but quite lovely, were a series of lace evening dresses, the most beautiful in black, embroidered with gold leaves. Louis Vuitton Cruises in Japan 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

His playful observational comedy keeps the audience at a distance, even claiming at one point that he was actually a police officer in disguise as a comic, a line he stuck to throughout the show. Can You Love a Stand-Up Special About Loathing? 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

In March, the duo’s radio promoters started urging radio stations to play “Can’t Hold Us,” a playful rap about having success without a major label deal that eventually rose to No. 1 in early May. Stars Align for a Gay Marriage Anthem 2013-06-30T18:10:26Z

Though I’m not in a playful mood this morning — having just seen the spirit-crushing “King Kong” — what if we begin this dialogue with a game? Review: ‘King Kong’ Is the Mess That Roared 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

After this brisk preamble, “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” settles into a playful stretch. Looking Apocalypse in the Eye 2011-08-04T14:59:55Z

It's not just the playful spirit of his sweetly warped creations that's admirable. Prankster's paradise: Fonejacker hits the streets 2010-04-09T23:11:00Z

The location of Otis Street Arts Project, secluded near CSX train tracks, is not conceptually ideal for its show of playful, large-scale work by Scott Pennington. Review | In the galleries: More than just selfies, more than just photos 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Even though she’s playful as she talks about it, Tokischa didn’t like the work, especially when clients crossed the lines of consent. Tokischa, Latin Music’s Newest Rebel, Isn’t Holding Back 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

"They do seem fun and playful, ignoring the fact that it's defacement of public property," James Draper, registrar at the Gerald R. Ford Public Museum, told Mlive.com for a story Tuesday. Gerald Ford graffiti pops up in Michigan hometown 2012-04-10T16:12:17Z

The mood is both formal and playful; we seem to be watching protracted games. Review: A Mark Morris Premiere Features Singular Theater Poetry 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Their playful husband-and-wife banter was a distinctive element of their performances over the decades. Eydie Gorme, singer of 'Blame it on the Bossa Nova,' dies at 84 2013-08-11T16:33:35Z

Nor does she want to destroy her marriage, which in spite of moments of frictions and miscommunication, is playful and affectionate. Movie Review: ‘Take This Waltz,’ Directed by Sarah Polley 2012-06-28T22:36:20Z

Textures, colors, styles and shapes clashed and contrasted in a collection that was able to be fun and playful — without ever falling into distasteful pastiche. Paris Fashion: Loewe delights, brands end silence on Ukraine 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

Another constant was his playful approach to architecture. Pritzker Prize Goes to Arata Isozaki, Designer for a Postwar World 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

In Giaimo’s playful updates of academic paintings, the sailor overboard in a turbulent sea is Cap’n Crunch, and the philosopher who contemplates death in the shape of a skull is Charlie Brown. In the galleries: Celebrating nature 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

“She was probably thinking she was playful, but the act itself seemed aggressive,” Ms. Davis said. MoMA Performance Art Brings Bad-Touch Lesson to Life 2010-04-15T18:29:00Z

This is a story that doesn’t just swallow its tail, it eats itself whole, but Mr. Heinlein’s narrative sleights of hand are very much of a piece with his playful take on identity. ‘Predestination,’ Starring Ethan Hawke 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

But she was in a playful mood that night as she celebrated a friend’s birthday, and decided to walk up to Mr. Barkley and introduce herself. Iran Barkley and Pamela Graham: A Boxer Marries His Champ 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, praised it for fusing “the grave and the playful, the body blow and the joke, the nightmare and the pipe dream.” Don Winslow on ‘Savages’ and ‘The Kings of Cool’ 2012-06-24T21:27:39Z

Its literature says that “jumby” means “playful spirit,” but some Antiguans say it really means an evil one. Jamaica Kincaid’s Antigua 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

The dividing line between playful and aggressive behavior is even murkier in the case of a woman whom Thomas Thornburg, a professor at the University of North Carolina, met online. Circa Now: How Online Gaffes Make us Seem Unintentionally Creepy 2014-03-21T20:23:28Z

They’re playful but also confrontational, prodding at the conceptions of working-class immigrants in these communities as menacing. JR’s Street Gallery Comes Indoors 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

Both are stunning, even if at times the playful, joking attitude between them feels forced. Review: Twyla Tharp Looks Back, With an Eye on the Future 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

His favorite scene: after Delilah learns she has liver cancer, the friends share a playful moment in the hospital jamming to Marvin Gaye and giggling at old memories. Angela Bassett on ‘How Stella Got Her Groove Back’ at 25 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z

It’s the sort of playful touch that keeps Elske feeling both fine and fun. A Chicago Restaurant With an Impressive Pedigree and a Nordic Soul 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

One minute she is a French chanteuse, the next a playful salsa singer, the next she dabbles in Bobby McFerrin-like electronics with a loop pedal. Music Review: Cyrille Aim?e and the Surreal Band at Birdland 2012-02-17T22:43:09Z

Late-night hosts are, by conventional wisdom, comedians – entertainers who commune with “our moment” somewhere on a spectrum between playful to biting. How late-night TV comedy has responded to a tumultuous year 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

Taylor and Rodriguez make their feature film debuts in "Tangerine," and their dynamic on-screen chemistry has a playful snap that tops off deeper emotional bonds. 'Misery loves comedy' in 'Tangerine,' a seriocomic film about trans sex workers 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

Sales grew steadily through the decades and Ms. Johnson’s runway shows, which riffed on playful themes like “The Little Rascals” and ’50s beauty parlors, were whimsical parties amid the seriousness of Fashion Week. Reinventing Betsey Johnson 2012-12-19T23:32:46Z

While Ms. Lee generally kept things playful with Mr. Breathed, the other letters contain hints of her feelings about growing older and, perhaps, more isolated. When Harper Lee, of ‘Mockingbird,’ Corresponded With Opus the Penguin’s Creator 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

Gilliam's urban interventions are of a slightly different stripe to the writers', though he shares their playful spirit. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-08T00:06:27Z

The second movement, “Surface Tension,” is more overtly combative, though often in a playful way. New York Philharmonic’s Next Leader Gives a Taste of Things to Come 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

But she added that using a pseudonym was in line with her playful exploration of multiple identities: It was about “creating and embodying a character, of reinventing myself” she said. People Like Her Didn’t Exist in French Novels. Until She Wrote One. 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

This 30-foot-long tunnel, an installation and playful passageway being built in Salamonie State Park, is the National Endowment for the Arts at work in Mike Pence country. Where do your NEA dollars really go? What we learned on an Indiana road trip. 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

The final two movements were slyly playful, especially the finale, a wild-eyed rustic dance. Review: Danish String Quartet Plays at the Rose Studio 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

The sheer rhythmic complexity alone was astounding, as the musicians and Ms. Shivalingappa engaged in a playful, elegant game of call and response, weaving dense layers of sound and meaning. Dance Review: A Show of Kuchipudi at Jacob?s Pillow 2010-07-12T22:05:00Z

Axial Flows pings and gleams in a playful trance, and Starlings is at first a darting exercise in dampened piano notes and pattering percussion, turning into a powerful, Cecil Tayloresque free- piano outburst. Marilyn Crispell/Gerry Hemingway: Affinities 2011-07-14T20:30:01Z

Yi puts her playful, inquisitive, seemingly uncensored personality onstage, and waits to see if we're entertained. Charlyne Yi 2010-08-09T16:29:00Z

The menu, too, is playful, though with links to classic Portuguese cuisine. Restaurant Report: Bastardo in Lisbon 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

There is some playful choreography and attractive costuming. Review: ‘Lady in the Dark’ Is Kurt Weill on the Couch 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

A second-floor space, called Platform, will focus on education — but with a playful, interactive approach. MoMA turns itself inside out for the 21st century 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

Yet Wright's delivery of playful one-liners in the lethargic monotone of a man with a terminal hangover is entirely his own. Comedy gold: A Steven Wright Special 2013-03-14T15:49:19Z

It’s a playful exchange that segues into the serious, as Emma bitterly upbraids Michael for deserting her decades previously, when she needed him most. In Playwrights' Arena's 'Billy Boy,' sexual inclinations collide with religion 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

Mainly, it's just a very funny, insightful and playful sketch show. Robin Thede leads yet another comedy revolution with "A Black Lady Sketch Show" 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z