Humorous wordplay is an inextricable part of many of the featured works.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sound Of One Hand: Paintings Of Zen Master Hakuin Showcased In New Exhbition (PHOTOS)] Reference

The wordplay is a joy and catching all the literary allusions the novel contains made me feel very smart/educated indeed!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reader reviews of The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde.] Reference

If so, the wordplay is is fair representation of The Second Child – a smart and funny collection that is at times just a little glib.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deborah Garrison Finds Poetry at the Intersection of Work and Motherhood « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference

But some references aren’t going to work, some wordplay is lost, I am tempted to simplify.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old New World : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

Some of the wordplay is a bit contrived and the dialogue is very 'British' even though most of the characters are American.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader Join Greg Mottola’s Paul | /Film] Reference

The wordplay is clever, sometimes real poetry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Comics Before 1945 » Comics Worth Reading] Reference

This kind of wordplay appears, for example, at 7.13.    From Wordnik.com.  [Solomon’s Song of Love] Reference

Shakespeare keeps you on your toes, and this kind of wordplay is a wonderful aspect of his work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

She also seems to follow Palin's lead in wordplay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christine O'Donnell calls Karl Rove 'unfactual' (Video)] Reference

The arguments were no longer exchanges of wordplay and ideas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brothers' War]

Besides the music, he loves the wordplay and especially the puns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Puns In Country Music Songs Done Right] Reference

All this wordplay is of a piece with Gotan Project's approach to music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gotan Project: An International Spin On Argentina's Tango] Reference

MOOS: Even the straight news reporters can't resist the space wordplay.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 7, 2007] Reference

Sure, the wordplay is partly driven by his legal need to avoid a perjury charge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton On The Couch] Reference

In Thomas Mann, and even James Joyce, you got human meaning along with the wordplay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empty Title] Reference

And what a gift from faraway to his son, whose name makes up the wordplay in the dedication.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stories Never Stop] Reference

The conventional wordplay on deer/dear reinforces the amorous double meaning of the passage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare]

A computer search of the expression spits out a virtual ocean of bad puns and dopey wordplay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Please Shut Up] Reference

From the beginning she deployed short, fractured lines of wordplay and sharp, angular movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reluctant Poet Laureate] Reference

Is all of this just diplomatic wordplay, or are we really on the brink of military confrontation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2007] Reference

His wordplay was spectacular, but the joke? innocent youth sings monstrous songs? was a crude one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bo Burnham: 'I'm honest ? for two minutes'] Reference

Another good tool: just about anything by Dr. Seuss, because of the rhyming and wordplay in the texts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dyslexia And The New Science Of Reading] Reference

"We're not fooled by wordplay," says Jean-Claude Piacentile of Force Ouvrier, the largest banking union.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commence Firing!] Reference

Gibbs is an agile rapper, fluent in double-time, rapid-fire wordplay, and a not-half-bad singer besides.    From Wordnik.com.  [CD review of 'Str8 Killa No Filla' by Freddie Gibbs] Reference

PATRICIA BARBERVerseHer throaty vocals, love of wordplay and sheer inventiveness make Barber worth finding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music: Quit Your Jonesing] Reference

  No matter that a bramble of bills, riders and vexing legal wordplay was clogging the legislative agenda.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Nation, Under Futebol] Reference

He sings in a drawled manner of phrasing that cuts any possible pretense in his impeccably metered wordplay.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Prine: Midwestern Mind Trips To The Nth Degree] Reference

It's a show that adores wordplay: hence Michael's son is named George Michael and a tease of a cousin is named "Maebe.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dysfunction Junction] Reference

Haroun's voyage is full of pranks and adventures and wordplay, which Rushdie handles adroitly and with obvious delight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stories Never Stop] Reference

The first single, "" Look Into My Eyes, '' is a hip-hop gem, filled with staccato wordplay and a eerie, unsettled rhythm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Straight Outta Cleveland] Reference

PATRICIA BARBER         Verse Her throaty vocals, love of wordplay and sheer inventiveness make Barber worth finding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music: Quit Your Jonesing] Reference