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The clever puns, rapid rhyming couplets, blink-and-you-miss-it word-play and give-a-toss defiant attitude set to an insistent beat means that every time I listen to the same hip-hop track, I take something fresh away with me.
Gary Nunn: Is It Odd for a White Gay Man to Love Hip-Hop? Gary Nunn 2012
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This resonates with me both in the word-play way and in everday way.
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Clearly straining our clever word-play we must leave off in that Sandy was only counting off twelve days to Christmas.
Tentacle of the Christmas Thing Warren Smith 2011
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The clever puns, rapid rhyming couplets, blink-and-you-miss-it word-play and give-a-toss defiant attitude set to an insistent beat means that every time I listen to the same hip-hop track, I take something fresh away with me.
Gary Nunn: Is It Odd for a White Gay Man to Love Hip-Hop? Gary Nunn 2012
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There was a little word-play (Tweedledum and Tweedledee's antiphonal speech was very well-rendered), but not remarkably, this movie is more about visual fireworks than verbal ones.
Alice In Wonderland deliasherman 2010
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I suspected that I knew what the answers were for both long ago, I simply couldn't see the word-play.
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Kristin and Carol, I lack the education needed to pick up on todays word-play and can't wait to be enligtened!
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Other songs use wily word-play in the service of making points meant to stand, such as a hilarious critique of web-perusing losers ("Online") and another that considers the ways it's pleasing to live in a nation that strives for racial progress ("Welcome to the Future").
So Many Ways to Make Noise Andy Battaglia 2011
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People completely unsuited for word-play will improvise an endless string of puns and wholly improbable idea relationships fit to outdo the ablest masters of this preposterous craft...
Jason Silva: On Creativity, Marijuana and "a Butterfly Effect in Thought" Jason Silva 2011
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There was a little word-play (Tweedledum and Tweedledee's antiphonal speech was very well-rendered), but not remarkably, this movie is more about visual fireworks than verbal ones.
Alice In Wonderland deliasherman 2010
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