Word Play

The clever puns, rapid rhyming couplets, blink-and-you-miss-it word-play and give-a-toss defiant attitude set to an insistent beat means that every time I listen to the same hip-hop track, I take something fresh away with me. ❋ Gary Nunn (2012)

Why don't we call them non-US citizens and be done with the word-play? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Kristin and Carol, I lack the education needed to pick up on todays word-play and can't wait to be enligtened! ❋ Unknown (2010)

Except a name-change for Steven was very complicated, because I had this whole word-play thing going on with his initials spelling out SOW and SLOW. ❋ Lili (2009)

I suspected that I knew what the answers were for both long ago, I simply couldn't see the word-play. ❋ Unknown (2011)

This resonates with me both in the word-play way and in everday way. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Clearly straining our clever word-play we must leave off in that Sandy was only counting off twelve days to Christmas. ❋ Warren Smith (2011)

We built the Addictionary to empower word-play and to help lovers of word-play showcase and market their cleverness and creativity to the world. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There was a little word-play (Tweedledum and Tweedledee's antiphonal speech was very well-rendered), but not remarkably, this movie is more about visual fireworks than verbal ones. ❋ Deliasherman (2010)

Other songs use wily word-play in the service of making points meant to stand, such as a hilarious critique of web-perusing losers ("Online") and another that considers the ways it's pleasing to live in a nation that strives for racial progress ("Welcome to the Future"). ❋ Andy Battaglia (2011)

People completely unsuited for word-play will improvise an endless string of puns and wholly improbable idea relationships fit to outdo the ablest masters of this preposterous craft... ❋ Jason Silva (2011)

Do you have to stoop to this kind of immature word-play? ❋ Unknown (2008)

The source of the symbolism was pure word-play since in Egyptian, the word for 'to become' was *ḫāpar Sahidic ϣⲱⲡⲉ while the symbol for 'beetle' contained the same consonantal skeleton, ḫpr, but presumably with different vowels. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you want us to accept something, show us the evidence - rhetoric and word-play is useless to us. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Children tend to be literal, and word-play was new to me. ❋ Unknown (2010)