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  • Playfully pressing her suitor as to how willing he would be to compromise his principles to bed her, Trish prods, "What if I become a communist?"

    Morgan Pehme: Strip Politics: A Cure for Incivility Morgan Pehme 2011

  • Playfully mimicking the aristocratic setting, Picasso painted their cloth covers with his own emblems of authority.

    Picasso Is Lord of This Manor Michael FitzGerald 2011

  • Playfully pressing her suitor as to how willing he would be to compromise his principles to bed her, Trish prods, "What if I become a communist?"

    Morgan Pehme: Strip Politics: A Cure for Incivility Morgan Pehme 2011

  • Playfully, brilliantly, Nolan has exploited the cinematic convention of the "cut": we, the audience, have accepted without question our own unexplained arrival in the middle of this scene.

    Inception 2010

  • Playfully he slapped at me when I refused to look at him.

    My Sweet Audrina V.C. Andrews® 2010

  • Playfully he slapped at me when I refused to look at him.

    My Sweet Audrina V.C. Andrews® 2010

  • Playfully he slapped at me when I refused to look at him.

    My Sweet Audrina V.C. Andrews® 2010

  • Playfully he slapped at me when I refused to look at him.

    My Sweet Audrina V.C. Andrews® 2010

  • Playfully, I shake the jar and listen to them jingle.

    Small Change 2009

  • Playfully dubbed "the Monster," it is studded throughout its body with tiny holes much like a colander, and houses an internal bladder system ( "the Creature"), which gently inflates, thereby squeezing and straining its contents, extracting the juice which will be transferred to a holding tank to be turned into wine.

    Adam Davie: The Harvesters 2008

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