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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

Many of these fragile jeux d'esprit were done when, while staying at friends' homes, he amused their offspring with stories and images.

From Time Magazine Archive

News and not jeux d'esprit, victory and not wit, was wanted.

From My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form by Palmer, Frederick