punning

It is left to directors to determine the size of the cast and to divide up Jelinek’s finely chiseled writing, which is by turns poetic, punning, allusive and philosophical.

The punning, exuberant text results in a genuinely German version, a “Hamilton” eminently, entirely at home in the language.

Johns’s entire body of work, to go by this elephantine show of more than 500 works, is akin to a trove of Nabokovian love letters — obscure and thwarted, but also punning, mordant, full of life.

Both attended what law school students called “bar review,” a punning excuse for socializing that takes place at a local watering hole.

Here, his punning sense of humor emerges yet again: He depicts Chinese and Aboriginal delegates engaged in “cordial” relations — by drinking cordial together.