Let's just say the wordplay won't go down as the finest example of Greek sophistry.
It understands anagrams, puns, wordplay and has memorized every Shakespeare soliloquy, major river and world capital.
But such explanation is wordplay rather than searching analysis as repeated financial panics and crashes regularly confirm.
Private equity is going green, and that's not a wordplay on all the money sloshing around the sector.
The 140 character restraint not only forces efficiency, but it also lends itself to some really, really fun wordplay.
Here, his ominous delivery doesn't obscure some of the best wordplay in hip-hop.
" Wordplay abounds, even in the title, as Packer gleefully explains the lesser-known Elizabethan meaning of the word "will.
Once in a while he wrote brief letters to the editor using the name A. Sock, a wordplay on Punch.
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Admittedly, the geek factor in Wordplay is every bit as high as the sap factor is in The Lake House.
Still besmirched by questionable wordplay and lacking their former popularity, the Justins are looking to Lambeth Palace with some excitement.
With syncopated internal rhyme schemes and some of the rapper's best wordplay to date, he doesn't sound cocky just confident.
We were lucky to fall in with Kote Koubanishvilli, perhaps the county's leading exponent of this form of satirical, political wordplay.
A. absorbed the styles of everything from Jamaican patois to hip-hop lyricism, blending them together in her unique form of wordplay.
Former Yankees pitcher (and Stanford grad) Mike Mussina got so good at them that he appeared in "Wordplay, " a 2006 documentary about crossword puzzles.
The 218 pages are quite detailed with supporting data points, as I would expect from every good analyst, and there is some wit and wordplay e.g.
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As leader of the now-defunct Clem Snide, Eef Barzelay took flak from critics for weaving smart-alecky wordplay and pop-culture references into his keenly observational songs.
"Love's Labour's Lost" is the most extravagantly artificial of Shakespeare's comedies, a pun-encrusted farrago of frenetic wordplay that lacks the emotional immediacy of his better-known plays.
Filmmaker Patrick Creadon spends the first half of Wordplay, not just with celebrity puzzleholics, but also with the puzzleheads who "construct" puzzles... even while driving down the highway.
The ideal candidate is someone who combines a love for language, wordplay, and conversation with demonstrated experience in bringing creative content to life within an intense technical environment.
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On his mixtapes, he's evolved out of conventional bling-thug rhetoric into something much looser and more playful, treating gangsta rap's antisocial themes primarily as an arena for wordplay.
Children of all ages can test their tongues with witty wordplay in "Allicatter Gatorpillar, " where a creature that is half alligator, half caterpillar sings songs and bares his teeth.
The Plastiki's name is wordplay off the "Kon-Tiki, " a balsa raft made famous by Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl, who in 1947 sailed the vessel from Peru to the Polynesian islands.
WordPlay features talks and workshops with prominent local and international writers and poets like Philip Cornwel-Smith, author of the book Thai Hybrid, and Dean Barrett, author of the book Writing on Asia.
Fans of Mr. Theise's sales catalogs of which there are more than you'd imagine who savored his humor, his over-the-top metaphors and his wacky wordplay, may have been surprised by the mystic strain in his book.
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"Ford Madox Ford was very witty and dry and the humor comes out of a quite dark place, while Tom has a very strong sense of humor that's more rooted in intellectual wordplay, " she says.
The influence of Serge Gainsbourg is audible in the opulent sonic textures, in the cheeky wordplay of Leon's French lyrics and, especially, in his whispery talk-singing a vocal style pioneered by Gainsbourg that gives every song the feel of a slightly scandalous confession.
By comparison, the new Traffic and Weather feels strangely listless as a whole: Songwriters Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood remain masters of astute character sketches and sly wordplay, but the disc never fully coheres as more than a winning but uneven batch of playful novelty songs.
Elgar loved wordplay: his Enigma Variations contained clues as to the people who inspired each of the pieces - his daughter was called Carice, using part of each of his wife's forenames Car(oline Al)ice, and his house in Malvern was called Craeg Lea, an anagram of C(arice), A(lice) and E(dward) Elgar.
There's something almost uncomfortable about a band that has squeezed so much clever wordplay out of so many emotionally messy situations the band has released nine albums in the last 10 years, in the process tackling subjects from Sept. 11 to artistic ennui that they're almost bound to hit the occasional sour note.
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