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In the 1950s, Nat "King" Cole declared playfully that "Mr.
In smaller-scale works Corot wrought changes on a variety of more secular riparian subjects: ferrymen, fishermen, women washing laundry or tossing each other playfully into the current.
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.
9 spot: "Peppers his speeches with words such as groovy and outasight .") A nuance that the future may not always appreciate, though, is how ironic or playfully self-conscious its usage usually was.
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.