| However, anyone up for catchy tunes and witty wordplay will be rewarded by this album's warm left-field charm and intelligence. |
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| That may sound odd, considering that the heirs of Gertrude Stein have long made outrageous wordplay a central part of their practice. |
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| Oh, callooh, callay, and frabjous day, for this beautiful edition of Lewis Carroll's masterpiece of wordplay has come out in paperback. |
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| If you can get past McPhee's overly cute wordplay, you'll find this an extremely helpful resource in interpreting your dreams. |
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| The rhymes often bounce between insightful social observation and authentic old-school wordplay, making for great late-night ear candy. |
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| For all of its politically incorrect insults and potty-mouthed wordplay, the movie is disappointingly dull and toothless. |
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| The typical Derridean wordplay of the final phrase suggests at least two interpretations. |
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| There is also a fair amount of clever wordplay, delivered rapid-fire to great effect. |
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| Stillborn epigrams, mechanistic wordplay, and numbing longueurs feel like hapless actors' improvisations. |
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| Very little gives me as much pleasure as a nice turn of phrase, an unexpected pun, or any other clever wordplay. |
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| She's been compared to Eminem for caustic wordplay that would sound awesome atop some straight hip-hop, but that would be too easy. |
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| There are so many rhyming couplets, which lends itself to rap, and so much punning and wordplay, which are the same tools that hip-hop uses. |
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| Those expecting the eccentric enjambement and biting wordplay of this artist will be disappointed. |
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| The Greeks did enjoy making acrostics, but that's a different kind of wordplay. |
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| She always thought that I was the one using wordplay to make a joke at her expense. |
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| Jackson is the poet ever alert to phonetic ambiguities and other forms of wordplay. |
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| Without being particularly inventive, it is still a passable excuse for the protagonists to go places, draw swords and engage in smart wordplay. |
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| As you know, it's not unknown for me to make bad jokes, especially where wordplay is involved. |
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| Shiny, colourful, mass-produced materials and images abound, as well as irony, wordplay and visual jokes. |
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| The main thing I remember is how funny Jimmy was, his weakness for dumb puns and wordplay. |
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| Women, they say, laughed more at jokes involving wordplay, while men preferred more aggressive humor. |
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| There's the weary, gravelly vocal style they share, the theatrical, elegantly sleazy wordplay and, of course, the ears. |
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| Back then, it was largely based around the interest we had in wordplay and rhyming about things that MCs don't normally rhyme about. |
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| But instead of name calling and personal attacks, the weapons of choice are logic, wordplay and witty repartee. |
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| Even behind bars, Bruce instantly came to be known as the mighty king of puns and wordplay. |
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| That kind of heady wordplay isn't always consistent or accessible, yet it generates excitement with every vivid line. |
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| The Agronomist is a clever title, one that rings with truth as well as ironic wordplay. |
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| For all the dark wordplay, the album is an aural equivalent of that old American favourite, the schmaltzy biopic. |
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| Full of zesty barbarous language and wordplay, it reminds me of why Wilde is so revered. |
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| Most languages have some self-critical locution, usually a wordplay or neologism, to indicate typical national defects. |
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| Elvis would never have been able get his mouth around all that college boy wordplay. |
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| Maley takes us through punning, naming, etymological wordplay, versification and other features of the poetic language. |
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| With all this eccentric wordplay under review, an ironic summation is in order. |
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| But, beyond that, homonymy seems to have been, even for Plato, no more than a source of ambiguity for wordplay. |
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| Here the two words were hyphenated, signifying a wordplay on the name of Ishmael, Abraham's first son and Isaac's half-brother. |
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| These visual puns are the equivalent of clever poetic wordplay, but unique to comix. |
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| If you survive his maze of dense wordplay and obscure references, you will probably not find anything too terribly profound, but you'll still be smarter. |
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| It's a panel show, riddled with puns, cultural references, and wordplay. |
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| But while absurd wordplay amuses me to no end in film, in books, in conversation and on merchandise, there's a point at which even I am no longer amused. |
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| He created a special puzzle for Oprah Winfrey when he appeared on the show to promote the wordplay documentary about crosswords. |
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| Holmes' own manipulation of language allows the reader to enter into his private universe, offsetting tight lineation and formal structure with inventive wordplay. |
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| His memoir, in a translation that preserves the author's gorgeous, discursive style and his love of wordplay, is a social history embedded within an autobiography. |
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| This meant he was able to give free rein to his talent for wordplay and his passion for juggling with the different sounds of French words. |
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| Added to this folk art is another American form, rap, in its spacious production but also the very wordplay itself. |
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| It was as a child listening to music like this, she says, that gave her a taste for language and wordplay. |
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| There is always wordplay, a compliment or a beautiful metaphor that will have its effect on women even more difficult. |
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| Both are and were blue-blooded, bibulous and, having a genius for wordplay, often hilarious. |
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| There is no plot to speak of, no dazzling wordplay, and the characters are practically vermicular. |
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| And this is an album awash with effortless, halting, careless wordplay. |
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| New, used and pre-owned jokes cohabit with Southwestern Zen and spur-jangling wordplay. |
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| As far as the lyrics on 2 are concerned, Femmouzes T remain true to their guiding principles: cultural and social militancy and comic wordplay. |
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| This song, which appears in a remixed version at the end of the album with a new title, Mahli, is more than simple wordplay on Souad's name. |
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| Once again, wordplay and ethnicity wounded an office-seeking Virginia Republican. |
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| Inspired by the French chanson star's clever wordplay, he vowed one day he would use his love of language to promote the Creole language. |
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| The poetic repertory, written in both Yemeni dialect and classical Arabic, abounds in wordplay and is renowned for its emotional content. |
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| The lyrics mixed Joycean wordplay with private teen mythology. |
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| I'm usually pretty leery of investing a lot in over-clever wordplay. |
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| Their cognitive and language abilities improve, which increases their capacity for problem solving and wordplay. |
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| Your lyrics are always very carefully crafted, using a lot of puns, wordplay and distortions of French expressions? |
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| Like any kind of wordplay, verbing can distract instead of persuade. |
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| That is to say there's a sense of humour in there and a love of wordplay, too. |
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| Here are a few movie taglines, based on some wordplay on their name. |
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| Waldman overlays her comic situations and satiric conversations with ironic literary allusions and witty wordplay. |
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| Ahmadinejad, a master of wordplay and double entendre, relishes the fact that we take him seriously and dissect his every word. |
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| Indeed, Nougaro's clever wordplay and his incredible ability to juggle with language are doubtless his most outstanding contribution to the French music scene. |
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| And she displayed remarkable skill in the songwriting department, penning lyrics which were funny, cutting and full of clever wordplay and hidden meanings. |
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| By this stage of his career Vian was experimenting more and more frequently with intricate wordplay, transforming his texts into elaborate vocal ballets. |
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| Surrealism, with its dreamlike associations, easily lent itself to the wordplay and psychological symbolism of advertising, cartoons, and theme parks. |
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| The very attentive audience delighted in his wordplay and funny faces. |
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| Now he is dead Heinz might have a little appreciation for this silly wordplay with his family name, but alive he definitely would have protested to be called an Angel. |
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| While Chris and Dawn lighten things up by wearing psychedelically garish clothes, Pixie's preferred form of levity is wordplay. |
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| Sometimes known as a spoonerism, The Brain Store has renamed this clever wordplay exercise. |
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| Adopting American English, he used wordplay, neologisms, elliptical phrases, and alliteration. |
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| He has difficulty expressing himself directly and instead blunts the thrust of his thought with wordplay. |
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| We experience this girl's journey through hazy alogical exchanges and madcap wordplay, but mad as she may be, this girl is no Hatter. |
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| Miriam's wordplay was steering fractionally too close to the wind for my liking. |
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| Fowl Mouth and Deer Heart were irresistible bursts of summery pop, full of smart wordplay and warm melodies. |
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| The imaginative poems are filled with wordplay and information about crocodiles, their sharp-toothed friends and their habitats, and each is paired with a descriptive line drawing of the clever and peculiar reptiles. |
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| A bunch of definitive reverse acrostics presented in February included seven wordplay terms, with especially fun ones for logology and logophile. |
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| The boisterous twosome thunder out a vibrant mix of infectious rhythms, vocal trills and tantalising wordplay, providing a real musical tonic for the troops! |
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| A sea lawyer is one who uses semantics, parsing of words, wordplay and other tricks of language in an attempt to mislead someone as to the truth. |
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| Since he first exploded in the charts with Bouge de là, Solaar has carved out his own niche on the French music scene with his alliterative juggling and clever wordplay. |
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| Throughout his teenage years Boris cultivated a passion for literature and the French language, developing a lifelong interest in punning and wordplay. |
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| There's everything from Chaucerian mucky puns and wicked wordplay to calculated disassemblies of bigotry and conceitedness. |
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| They respond enthusiastically when it's read to them, they love the wordplay, rhythms and rhymes, and they write their own fantastic poems in workshops. |
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| The French rapper, renowned as an insatiable reader of novels and newspapers and an avid collector of dictionaries, has an exceptional gift for language and his songs are filled with clever puns and wordplay. |
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| The wordplay in his songs is never gratuitous. |
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| The dialogue is insanely complicated, loaded with wild wordplay that would give Groucho Marx pause and exquisitely entendre'd to the octuple degree. |
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| Album MIKILL PANE Blame Miss Barclay HE'S the freshest and most talented solo artist around with lyrics so ingenious it's impossible to catch all the wordplay. |
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| As an artist, my wordplay has got better and the music grimier. |
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| He adopts for his names Greek words that either confirm the character or undercut him or her ironically, and sometimes lead to, or depend on, wordplay in the text. |
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| Children will be intrigued by the beguiling wordplay, and equally engaged by the exuberant collage illustrations created by Marthe Jocelyn and Nell Jocelyn. |
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| Alchemical texts mix artisanal knowledge with philosophical speculation, often hidden behind layers of wordplay, allegory, and imagery to protect craft secrets. |
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