(1) But it is most sadly provocative for its damning portrait of the fate of the ludic impulse in the Hollywood of the late 40's.(2) The acting was mostly old-school, solid as those logs, but unsubtle, more ludicrous than ludic .(3) Above all else, it is an extended, high-spirited, ludic exploration of human language-making.(4) As one might expect from this most ludic author, one of the more undeservedly unknown masters of twentieth-century prose, these essays are hardly traditional academic exercises.(5) Here, the struggle for the privilege to inscribe cultural symbols as either feminine or as masculine - indeed the privilege to inscribe symbols with meaning at all - is cast in a ludic , absurdist light.(6) However, for all the ludic exuberance of this game, we should also be concerned that, as in any game, we are also likely to see winners and losers.(7) The first category sanctifies exhortation, rhetorical plainness, unadorned truth-telling; the second blesses ornate, elaborate eloquence, ludic loquaciousness.(8) Another way of saying it is that Palermo at his best remained supremely ludic and childlike in his approach to subjects and materials.(9) Code switching, however, is not merely a question of resistance and survival, or for that matter, a ludic activity; it is also a poetics of cultural alterity; its modes of speech are textual.(10) Adrian's desperate and pointless shot is a moment of ludic magic, and it will in turn become the material for future stories in which a kind of artistic victory is snatched from gestures of anger and despair.(11) There is frequently something ludic , ironic, provisional, taking place here.(12) Lola's desperate and often ludic attempts to exact revenge on Ricardo and Wendy provide the central narrative impetus.(13) Setting the special or particular or quirky against the normative, behind its mask Simmons Hall is a ludic habitat not only for the adventurous, but also for those willing to engage with and participate in this not easy architecture.(14) But the point remains the same: their marriage can be made ‘real’ within its community only through a cleansing ritual of innocent or ludic violence.(15) But the ludic presence of humor also inflects the choice of procedures and devices which hail us with their math or italic geometry.(16) Seldom did his journalist's nose and his artist's eye make for such ludic harmony.
