In a playful response, a senior US government official said the Obama administration "does not support blowing up planets".
She is equipped with a camera so that the researchers witness the transformation from a playful seal to a speeding torpedo.
The city has its own rhythm, which takes a little while to hear: it is a complex but playful raga, a gliding, light-footed dance that all of Mumbai seems to know.
Its affiliation with the young men and women players is supposed to make its wine seem as playful as a beach sport.
In the same way post-modernist architecture, with its pastiches of historic features, seems merely playful in a kind of soulless way, so too do most of our new cars seem oddly flat and without character.
I've always believed in hot chocolate for dessert so long as it's ridiculously rich and served in a demitasse cup with something playful, like a peppermint stick.
Similarly, although some businesses do benefit from a playful environment where workers feel comfortable spending a lot of time, Surrena says it's wise to help employees maintain boundaries between their work and personal life.
When you first hear Blackbird, a standout track on the new album, its a pretty, playful song - almost a nursery rhyme.
John Malkovich frolics to the music of Mozart in "The Giacomo Variations, " a playful, frothy production which was envisioned as "a chamber opera play" by its creators.
We then flash to the past, where Superman and Lois Lane share a playful encounter and we quickly learn why Superman may have gone a little nutso.
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In a more playful spirit, Tom Rees created a car out of Lego that is controlled using the console from a gaming system.
This article allowed me to explore a number of different issues in a playful way, which is important when you teach tax law, a subject many would rather avoid.
La Vitrine, a cultural information and last minute ticket booth, currently has a playful interactive light and video installation by Moment Factory, that will move to a new building, scheduled to open this autumn.
Oye seems like a playful wanderer, while Boe, who boasts an advanced psychology degree, possesses the reserved temperament of a tired young father.
Dad has a playful side to him, but when he's in parent mode he can sound as proper as a 1950s sitcom dad.
But those who knew him personally describe him as a laid-back Californian with a playful side.
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It has a playful look, as if it were built out of children's building blocks.
But Shaq's playful personality masks a potent ambition and a shrewd knack for business.
The aluminum sculptures seem playful but express a disgust with the destruction of childhood innocence through commercialization.
The crowd of 400 students brought a playful side out of Joel, who was lively with the students.
But the combined effect of all this stuff is faint indeed, a playful obliqueness that seems somewhat pointless.
Ismaila starts to smile, and soon he is playing with his brothers: He gives his cousin a playful thump.
As did images meaningful to the eastern consciousness like the fruit on a playful watch at Van Cleef, for example.
They now have mandatory playdough playtime during strategy meetings, to help stimulate their brains and keep everyone in a playful, creative mindset.
While the first felines of the 1950s were ferocious, with yellow eyes and sharp claws, by the 1960s they had a playful, cublike look.
Suarez, who speaks little English, defended himself, claiming he used the Spanish word "negro" in a playful way and disputing the account provided by Evra.
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He was mischievous and musical, a playful, seductive, much indulged youth.
And in 1971 it unanimously passed a motion honouring the Boston Strangler, which a playful member had sponsored to demonstrate that his colleagues passed bills without reading them.
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Apple might be having too much fun experimenting with the apology genre in that arena, flaunting a certain brand of playful post-Jobs defiance before a European judge.
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