jeux d'esprit
- plural of jeu d'esprit.
Example Sentences
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The two early works by him that happily overlapped this season in major London productions are often regarded as the merely playful jeux d’esprit of a giddy lad with an insatiable and compendious mind.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2017
Bizarre jeux d'esprit, they seem to issue from some other part of Williams's mind, until one considers that the work in this show all belongs to a world outside speech.
From The Guardian ● May 19, 2012
Such ironic jeux d'esprit are utterly foreign to the old wives' tale.
From The Guardian ● May 14, 2010
Its jeux d'esprit are sometimes not in the best of taste.
From Time Magazine Archive
Patriotic poems, satires, jeux d'esprit, with more or less of the esprit implied in their name, were produced, not sparingly; but they find it hard work to live, except in the memory of antiquaries.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various
