While the title playfully refers to the pressure artists face in ❋ Unknown (2010)
The title playfully refers to Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's famous quote: "I don't care if it's a white cat or a black cat. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Earlier, Hamlin playfully shot down Busch's contention from last week that he was the "new and improved Kyle Busch" who persevered to win at Richmond. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Steve Martin playfully violates the time-space continuum and then expects regular folks like us to just follow along. ❋ William "Papa" Meloney (2007)
Putin playfully shot back, “We certainly would not want to have same kind of democracy as they have in Iraq, quite honestly.” ❋ Unknown (2006)
"Our distinguished friend, speaks truthfully," remarked Nappy Boney, the only Frenchman in camp, and possessing a nickname playfully contracted from the name of the first emperor. ❋ John Habberton (1881)
My father cooks in the back of our office, and he and Stanley used to talk in Yiddish playfully to each other. ❋ Unknown (2010)
(Actually an acronym, Taser stands for "Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle," the name playfully bestowed by its inventor in honor of his fictional boyhood hero.) ❋ Unknown (2009)
Its title playfully mocks Anger's earlier "Fireworks," which would translate as "Feu d'artifice" in French. ❋ Unknown (2009)
“Well,” she said, “now that you’ve taken your shot”—she kicked the word playfully—“is that enough? ❋ Chuck Hogan (2004)
Yes, change, that heavy, striking buzzword playfully tossed around by both Democratic presidential contenders, especially Barack Obama. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Everywhere Beauty glanced in the crowd of dark-clad drinkers with their heavy riding boots and swords, she saw the flash of naked bottoms and gleaming pubic hair as slaves set down plates of steaming food, bent over to wipe up spills, crawled on hands and knees to mop up the floor, or scampered to retrieve a coin playfully pitched into the sawdust. ❋ Rice, Anne (1984)
Few men have made the art to which they devoted themselves more subservient to the use of man than he whom Livingstone first knew as Graham's assistant, and afterward used to call playfully “Sir Paraffin.” ❋ Blaikie, William G. (1880)
Nor did he suspect, till long after, that it was in reality slyness, so tempered with archness, that, if discovered, it might easily pass for an expression playfully assumed. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
And for me, that can be something as small as expressing it, like the French do, when I see something distasteful, unsettling, or upsetting -- not sitting quietly when sexist comments are "playfully" bandied around, or sorting out my garbage even when it's not the most convenient moment to recycle. ❋ Unknown (2008)
M: "Have you gone mad? Why have you started to [treat] [me like] shit?"
W: " I have not, it's called being [playfully aggressive]" ❋ Komandyyr (2023)
