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Of course, by the 1830s, when these dishes were made, the Japanese knew better but, like Steinberg's, the maps capture the cultural confidence of the playfully arrogant islander.
John Updike is at bottom a religious novelist, but when you try to identify what exactly his bottom-most religious beliefs may be, the whole murky lot of them playfully slither away--which gives his writing a touch of theological suspense.
On Tuesday, in Texas, after a public display of affection, one of them playfully grabbed the other by the wrist and shouted, "Run!
Prostitutes are playfully known as gerla girl-a, super-gerla, spermatorka, spermara, sperm-usha, stewardess, and, because they walk the pavements, granit.
There is nothing hilarious or mirthful, however, about the Yiddish Guide . To the very contrary: it brings forth a deep sense of sadness because what was supposed to be a serious attempt at facilitating the Census count, a sort of “first aid” assistance in answering the Census Form, looks like the work of a child who took several pages from a Yiddish book, cut them up with his plastic scissors into tiny pieces of various shapes and sizes and then playfully pasted them together.