Face
Face verb - To stand or sit with the face or front toward.
Playing
Playing noun - The action of taking part in a game or sport or other recreation.
Both words in one sentence
- In the books, he's literally stroking her face and playing with her hair on first meeting her.
Source: No Sense of Personal Space -
It quickly grows as surreal as you'd expect from a fevered hallucination, culminating in his reflection sprouting a trumpet from his face and playing a jazz tune before Bloo suddenly snaps back into lucidity and finds himself standing alone in front of an ordinary mirror again.
Source: Mirror Monologue - Despite his current face leaning commentary style on WWE Raw and live pay-per-view events, Lawler always reverts to his classic heel-style commentary for the WWE's video game releases, playing the antagonizer to whomever is the face commentator (usually Jim Ross or Michael Cole).
Source: HeelFace Revolving Door
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