playfulness
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Playfulness sure looks like hard work, given all the jumpy choreography and forced laughter in this Diane Paulus production.
From Washington Post • Feb. 27, 2019
The study, published in 2011 in the American Journal of Play, looked at 46 people, 65 years and older to come up with an “Older Adult Playfulness Scale” of characteristics.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2018
Playfulness opens up possibilities for children of all ages.
From The Verge • Jun. 2, 2017
The descriptions of RyuGin’s courses are wonderfully abstract: Dishes have names like “Coolness Warmth Playfulness Nostalgia and Temptation” and “A Message From the Coast of Japan.”
From New York Times • May 3, 2016
"Playfulness," for instance, is one which she stigmatizes as "silly in sound and significance," and declares that she does not read the new novels "with the exception of Walter Scott's."
From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
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