"play" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In a witty play on the polysemy of the word "blue," Big Bird sings the mournful song"No Wonder I'm So Blue."
- The titles of the books are witty play on words featuring the country and a common phrase, such as Spain or Shine and Swede Dreams.
- The Stage called it "an intriguing, intensely witty, brainy play [...] one of the most compelling two-handers imaginable".
- David Kane's witty and incisive play evokes the decadent sensuality of the period.
- The deed, done years before the curtain rises, laid the foundation for Sir Robert's wealth and career as well as for a witty play.
- Mr. Hodges's witty play with fact and fiction, nature and artifice, process and product, is not deep, but it nevertheless engages the mind as well as the eye.
- "No gripping novels, no witty plays, no insightful essays, no great poetry."
- Mr. Kelly's subtly witty, formally acute play with simple shapes, the picture plane and primary colors gives these works a punchy vitality.
- And Gary Stevens's performance piece, using toys and animals, is a witty play on ideas of confused identity.
- Mr. Gurney still writes wonderfully thoughtful and witty plays that range widely in theme and subject matter.
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