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Example sentences for: punning
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Zach Arnold is fully versed in the theory and practice of punning, and clearly has it in his bones.
"Taking his cue from writers like Don DeLillo and Philip K. Dick, who successfully blurred the lines between serious and popular novels, Lethem is like a kid in a candy store, grabbing all the tasty plots and gimmicks he can" (Albert Mobilio, the New York Times Book Review ). The heart of the book is the protagonist's affliction and his constant verbal outbursts, which form "a barrage of sheer rhetorical invention that has tour de force written all over it; it's an amazing stunt, and, just when you think the well is running dry, Lethem keeps on topping himself" ( Kirkus Reviews ). A few call the punning Joycean literary outbursts unrealistic, but most just take them in stride, admiring the "highly artificial, flamboyantly bizarre world that constantly upstages its genre format ...
This seems more likely than a punning comparison of tools which His Royal Highness is unlikely to have used.
The punning by Anthony Quinn is a different matter.
The comment about street names reminded me of a punning name in Ohio for which credit must probably go to the Ford Motor Company.
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