Here are some of the coldest wordplays we could find: Let it go, let it go.
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"I blew up your body / But you blew my mind," Ferry wordplays as lust, shame, and anger manifest themselves as a furious jam from hell.
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Steward's Black Panther-inspired work wordplays the concept of "bearing arms" into a series of four large framed watercolors of two young Black boys engaged in a kind of ambiguous wrestling.
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I then went up to the northeast corner (I'm a lefty – maybe that's why – habit again) and got far enough to replace BURNOUT with TIRE OUT, and figured out BOISE, where you need an ID (for Idaho) to get your mail, one of a few clever wordplays in this puzzle.
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This refers to the slime moulds in which they were found. The species names are merely wordplays without any taxonomical jargon, and are simply "whimsical arrangement of letters", as the authors noted.
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Humour, also, is important: scholar Molly Mahood identifies at least 175 puns and wordplays in the text. Many of these jokes are sexual in nature, especially those involving Mercutio and the Nurse.
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The lyrics on Murder Nature were influenced by Kris's fascination with automatic writing, in a stream of conscious style. They also contain many wordplays and references to politics, film, literature, among many other things.
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Tribute bands' names may be puns or wordplays that clearly show the famous band they are based on (e.g., Zed Leppelin could be the name for a Led Zeppelin tribute group). tremolo : Shaking (i.e. a rapid repetition of the same note, or an alternation between two or more notes).
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D&CO; is hosted by Valérie Damidot since 2006. This name comes from two wordplays. First of all D&CO; is obviously the abbreviation of the word “DECORATION”. And secondly, D is the first letter of Damidot, and “CO” the abbreviation of the word “COMPANY”, so it means Damidot & Company.
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Oresteia, Loeb edition by Alan Sommerstein, introduction, p. x, 2008. Aeschylus, in certain wordplays on her name, appears to assume an etymological link with the verb mḗdomai (, "scheme, contrive"). Thus given the derivation from κλῠτός (klutós "celebrated") and μήδομαι (mḗdomai "to plan, be cunning"), this would result in the quite descriptive "famous plotter".
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Engenheiros do Hawaii ("Engineers from/of Hawaii" in English) was a Brazilian rock band formed in Porto Alegre in 1983 that achieved great popularity with their ironic, critically charged songs with heavily semantic lyrics often relying on wordplays. The vocalist and bassist Humberto Gessinger is the last original member still in the band today.
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The Zhuangzi uses de 191 times. Many contexts praise Daoist "integrity; inner power", some mock Confucianist and Mohist "virtue", and others make de wordplays. One of the chapter titles is "De chong fu" (5, , "The Sign of Complete Virtue"). Several of the Zhuangzi translators (listed here) explain the difficulties of rendering de into English.
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Lakshmi doesn't help with her overacting. Parthiban is subdued and barring a few occasional wordplays, doesn't display much of the talkative persona he usually adopts in movies. The twist in the middle is obvious from early on but does perk up interest in the proceedings. Unfortunately Vasu squanders this with lame characterizations and obvious attempts at setting the stage for later proceedings.
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He was most passionate on the subject of sanitation in schools and in urban and rural housing, about which he spoke frequently.Carens (1979) pp.112–113 His speeches frequently contained puns, wordplays, and extended poetic quotations, and were sometimes given in favour of facetious schemes, such as his attempt to have the phoenix statue in Phoenix Park included in the 1929 Wild Birds Protection Bill.Historical Debates Website.
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Many societies have traditional sages or culture heroes to whom aphorisms are commonly attributed, such as the Seven Sages of Greece, Confucius or King Solomon. Misquoted or misadvised aphorisms are frequently used as a source of humour; for instance, wordplays of aphorisms appear in the works of P. G. Wodehouse, Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams. Aphorisms being misquoted by sports players, coaches, and commentators form the basis of Private Eye's Colemanballs section.
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Khena's name was later dropped from the title of the series which is now just called Le Scrameustache. He does however remain a leading character, some of the stories looking at his development from a boy in his early teens to an actual teenager. The name "Khena" is taken from the word Quena which is an Inca flute. The name Scrameustache does not appear to be based on any puns or wordplays.
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The Split Second received positive reviews. A review from the School Library Journal in the audio book criticized Oliver Wyman's narration, but praised the books "many hilarious wordplays and puns". It also commented on the book's complex plot and many varying viewpoints. A review from Booklist was very positive stating "This sequel continues to develop a truly ingenious setting while proving every bit as much of a nail-biter as the first".
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The Canberra Times has referred to their music as "literate, gloriously melodic pop," with lyrics "rife with puns and wordplay." The Hobart Mercury called them "fiercely independent and refreshingly unique".Luck runs out for Lucksmiths, 20 August 2009, Hobart Mercury (Australia) In songs written by Marty Donald, lyrics often feature puns, wordplays and draw upon literary references or Australian English idioms. The themes of weather, geography, and seasons appear often in the songs of the Lucksmiths.
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Online version accessed on 2009-06-27. Much of the play's comical effect comes from the contrast between the two languages, which provides the occasion for many misunderstandings and wordplays. Featured is also a physician, who earns the gratitude of Ruzzante for prescribing a fatal medicine to his stingy father and thus uniting the lad with his long-awaited inheritance. In his later plays and monologues he shifts to the Venetian language almost exclusively, while keeping up with his social satire.
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He often collaborated with both artists and non-artists, giving them significant freedom in their contributions to his works. For instance, one of the better known types of his works consists of colored letters embroidered in grids ("arazzi", meaning wall hangings or tapestries) on canvases of varying sizes, the letters upon closer inspection reading as short phrases in Italian, for instance Ordine e Disordine ("Order and Disorder") or Fuso Ma Non Confuso ("Mixed but not mixed up"), or similar truisms and wordplays.
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Contrary to complaints regarding the generic nature of the films, it is well recognized that Čáp contributed drastically to the adaptation of Slovene language for cinematic use. The dialogues were fluent and had substance, there was plenty of wordplays, verbal comedy, urban slang and authentic regional accents. The dialogues from Čap's comedies came into general usage and became items of universal joking across generations and nation. Whereas Slovene language in pre-Čap cinema hadn't functioned well, Čáp invented a slang liberated from constraints of purism and theatricality.
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Even though Jozia has been compared to female singers like Tracy Chapman or Erykah Badu, she cites artists such as Björk, David Bowie, Thom Yorke, and Amy Winehouse as key influences in the pursuit of her own musical and artistic vision. Her lyrics reflect much of her history and life in South Africa as well as her time spent abroad, exploring topics like love and loss, otherness and alienation, puberty and identity, marihuana and democracy – typically spiced up with wordplays, poetic ambiguity and a subtle humour.
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Bëlga started as an offshoot hiphop project at Tilos Rádió. As lyrical innovators and phenomenal parodists, they gained wide popularity for an extremely explicit criticism of Budapest public transport company BKV, as well as hilarious wordplays and self-irony. Their lyrics are significant beyond the hip-hop scope as a cultural documentation of turn-of- the-millennia Culture of Hungary. Hungarian Slam sessions are rare and few, and still a novelty for the mainstream, but are gaining popularity with literary performers, emcees and audiences alike.
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Jobedu curates the works of Arab designers on various products including T-shirts, hoodies, posters, and other accessories, with the aim of creating a sustainable brand that embodies Arab culture. The name "Jobedu" refers to Jordan's Bedouins, seen as "masters of resourcefulness in the face of adversity" and "natural-born entrepreneurs". To appeal to a global market, the Arab designs are combined with global film, television and pop-cultural icons. The T-shirts include texts in English, Arabic and 3arabeezy, Arabic Internet slang written in Latin script, with wordplays such as "Free-Dom" (in Arabic, "dom" means "blood") or "Wadi Rum and Coke".
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While many mountains straddle the equator, only 25 of these have a glacier at their peak (defined at the time of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change adoption in 1992); hence, 25 mountains at zero latitude. In reality, however, there are about three degrees (some 320 km) of leniency in the inclusions, both North and South. Additionally, the name wordplays on estimates that within an average of 25 years, all these glaciers will have retreated to zero ice. According to the project team, this is important because melting ice is an excellent proxy indicator for climate change impacts.
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In some cases they are "dumbed down", lacking the clever French wordplays of the originals. Following the release of Mes Courants Électriques, Alizée went on a countrywide tour of France, along with a performance each in Belgium and Switzerland, during the second half of 2003. The tour started off with a performance on 26 August 2003 in Paris. It concluded with her performance on the prestigious l'Olympia hall in Paris and eve of 17 January 2004 at the Le Zénith concert hall in the same city and had covered major cities including Lyon, Rouen, Lille, Grenoble and Dijon.
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This is done by query expansion, whose purpose is to convert the clue into a query expressed by a simplified and more appropriate language for Google. The retrieved documents are parsed so as to extract a list of word candidates that are congruent with the crossword length constraints. Crosswords can hardly be faced by using encyclopedic knowledge only, since many clues are wordplays or are otherwise purposefully very ambiguous. This enigmatic component of crosswords is faced by a massive use of database of solved crosswords, and by automatic reasoning on a properly organized knowledge base of wired rules.
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Premchand was known, and often criticized, for offering his female characters empowering roles in the realm of religion, politics, relationships, and caste. In 1976 Rubin published A Season on the Earth: Selected Poems of Nirala. While initially considered one of the original Chhayavad poets, a romantic era in Indian poetry lasting from 1922 to 1938, Nirala's penchant for social reform along with a late-blooming love of mystical symbols made him one of his era's most original bards: the name Nirala means “strange one.” As much as possible, Rubin's translations held true to the wordplays found in the original.
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Awarding of honorary prices of the Zelt Musik Festival Freiburg, Germany 2015 by Gernot Erler (MdB) Zelt Musik Festival, Gerhard Polt reads Peter and the Wolf accompanied by the Russische Kammerphilharmonie St. Petersburg Gerhard Polt (born May 7, 1942 in Munich) is a German writer, filmmaker, actor and satirical cabaret artist from Bavaria. Gerhard Polt's main topics are Bavarian people, culture and politics. On stage he often plays the role of an ignorant Bavarian petty bourgeoisie. One of his trademarks is the constant switching and the combining of Bavarian, Standard German and even (pseudo-) Englisch language elements (albeit always performed with strongly Bavarian pronunciation and melody), where a lot of jokes and wordplays derive from.
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Kvanvig infers from this text that the mythological role of the apkallu was to aid the god (Marduk) in keeping creation stable by maintenance of Marduk's idol. According to Scott B. Noegel this epic also contains several clever etymological wordplays on the names of apkallu, both textual and phonetic. This text appears to have a completely different role for the apkallu from that given in the lists of sages and kings—essentially, Kvanvig proposes that the pre-deluge king-sage list was retroactively inserted onto a Sumerian king list, so to combine the historical record with the flood legend. In doing so it creates a pre-flood origin story for the Sumerian kings.
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Walker says, "The wit of Esther, by turning our usual expectations upside down, reminds us to expect the unexpected." He says "I second Adele Berlin's ranking of Esther high among the most humorous books of the Bible, amusing throughout, and at certain points uproriously funny. People who have looked closely find the book so funny Esther emerges as perhaps the clearest embodiment of the comic vision among all the Biblical narratives." Walker and Macy both cite the careful attention to words and wordplays in this book, while Walker also includes Esther in what he calls "genial gender humor" where, he says, women often prove to be "more dynamic characters" than their male counterparts and always seem to get the "last scriptural word".
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An animation illustrating the anagram between the Euphorbiaceae genus names Joannesia and Annesijoa Adam White's A Popular History of British Crustacea, 1857, showing the crustacean genera Conilera and Rocinela named by Leach using taxonomic anagrams In the biological nomenclature codes, an anagram can be used to name a new taxon. Wordplays are one source of inspiration allowing organisms to receive scientific names. In the binominal nomenclature, as scientists have latitude in naming genera and species, a taxon name can therefore be an anagram, provided it remains pronounceable. For example, in the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, a new generic name can be taken from the name of a person by using an anagram or abbreviation of it.
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Cunt: A Declaration of Independence front cover James Joyce was one of the first of the major 20th-century novelists to put the word "cunt" into print. In the context of one of the central characters in Ulysses (1922), Leopold Bloom, Joyce refers to the Dead Sea and to Joyce uses the word figuratively rather than literally; but while Joyce used the word only once in Ulysses, with four other wordplays ('cunty') on it, D. H. Lawrence used the word ten times in Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), in a more direct sense. Mellors, the gamekeeper and eponymous lover, tries delicately to explain the definition of the word to Lady Constance Chatterley: "If your sister there comes ter me for a bit o' cunt an' tenderness, she knows what she's after." The novel was the subject of an unsuccessful UK prosecution in 1961 against its publishers, Penguin Books, on grounds of obscenity.
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Joseph Lawrence Greene (August 1, 1914 - 1990) was an American author of science fiction novels and short stories whose most familiar creations are Tom Corbett, Space Cadet which, in 1951, became a television series popular with young audiences, as well as Dig Allen Space Explorer, a series of six books published between 1959 and 1962, which focused around the adolescent hero Dig Allen and his interplanetary adventures in the genre of boys' juvenile literature. A prolific writer, he also contributed numerous stories to comic books and was an editor, until 1972, for Grosset publishing while writing under a number of pseudonyms including, purportedly, the house pen name "Alvin Schwartz" and also "Richard Mark", and using sundry variations of his own name ("Joseph Lawrence", "Joe Green", "Joseph Verdy", "Larry Verdi", "Lawrence Vert"), which exemplified such foreign-language wordplays for "Green" as "Verdy", "Verdi" and "Vert".
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