playful
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The food and drink offerings lean playful and nostalgic, with cotton candy, popcorn, loaded milkshakes, cocktails, mocktails and plenty of other treats to keep the fun going between games.
From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026
Regardless of the genre in the mix at any given moment, “Somewhere Good” is consistently playful and exploratory, a ramshackle record where everything seems to land in the right place.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
A playful work of historical reclamation, it re-creates a women’s consciousness-raising group at an Ohio recreation center in the 1970s.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
Their lead single “Fabienk” is studded with hair-trigger riffs — if you can even call them that — that mix the playful nursery rhyme melodies of Battles with the no-wave drone of Sonic Youth.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026
It was meant to be playful, but there was too much shock and hurt and silence in the room and she wasn’t blindly happy like Pa. “You see,” she scolded him.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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