(1) And that voice like a whip-crack: impish, transgressive, swooping from a mutter to a scream.
(2) This wasn’t Roberto Carlos defying physics for Real Madrid –but given the impish star on the end of Saturday’s shot, it felt even more improbable.
(3) Their first-half efforts here all lacked direction, as was the case when their impish Spanish midfielder Carles Gil dragged wide just before Hull’s opening goal and when Ashley Westwood clipped a 36th-minute free-kick over the wall, or power on the only occasion they did manage an effort on target when Allan McGregor saved a tepid glancing header from Gabby Agbonlahor.
(4) He was in the original 1965 production of Joe Orton's Loot , playing Hal, the impish hero who hides the proceeds from a robbery in his mother's coffin.
(5) But Winning’s got an attractively impish spirit and there are some spry jokes here.
(6) "I've had my fun," she says the morning after, looking more impish than hungover at the offices of the film's publicist.
(7) France were short of potency until the substitution board came up and Deschamps swapped Giroud for an impish young talent who is full of quick thinking, clever feet and the bright ideas to make something happen.
(8) West Germany bring in two impish schemers, Thomas Hässler and Olaf Thon, for Pierre Littbarski and Uwe Bein.
(9) Almost as soon as two HIV-prevention activists set up outside the pharmacy in the outskirts of Moscow with two huge backpacks of supplies, a skinny young man with mussed hair and an impish grin quickly walked up to them.
(10) The Great British Bake Off’s winning ingredient | Letters Read more Much of the tone of the show – as light and sweet as a sponge – is carried by its presenters, the impish Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc, and their end-of-pier, Carry On-style humour.
(11) He can win or lose with the group.” Neymar is remarkably level-headed and he can seem like an impish kid who wants to have fun.
(12) Back in the hotel room, drinking his coconut water, Wood gives an impish grin when I ask if he feels like a survivor.
(13) Another visitor to her flat was Stanislav Markelov, a 34-year-old lawyer with an impish sense of fun, who worked with Estemirova representing Chechen victims.
(14) First there was that leaked poster, which appeared to show the impish, emerald-skinned bomb chucker flying through the skies of Manhattan on his trademark glider.
(15) She wasn’t some two-dimensional figure, but was humanity itself – impish, playful, energetic, determined, vibrant, loving, funny and strong.
(16) Finally she resumes her position on the sofa with Marcel still chuckling impishly under one arm.
(17) The new bantamweight king of the Olympics, whose impish features disguise an iron will, became the team's second gold medallist after Nicola Adams made history in the women's inaugural tournament.
(18) His impish dribbling and ability to pick out a pass could make the difference for West Ham.
(19) Jacob Steinberg It feels harsh in the extreme to overlook Vardy’s goals and assists but I’m going to, simply because few things in life are better than watching an impish winger like Mahrez torment full-backs.
(20) A small boat packed with revellers – notable among them the already familiar, wiry figure of Dizzee Rascal – had sailed up the river, irreverently blasting out the impish Bow teenager's new single Jus' a Rascal, and turning the carefully stage-managed finale of Blaine's "Above The Below" into an impromptu video shoot.
Puckish
Definition:
(a.) Resembling Puck; merry; mischievous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over time, the name has lost its punny puckishness much as the movement has steadily shifted from a proudly anacharical – even populist – response and rebellion within the GOP to a smoothly functioning alternative to it.
(2) As a novelist, she was preoccupied by the intersection between power and personality, which she represented, in what became trademark fashion, in a variety of puckish settings.
(3) Asked how Russia's oligarchs are bearing up, Lebedev is almost puckishly cheerful.
(4) Lars Von Trier is known for being unpredictable, quixotic, puckish and deliberately provocative.
(5) Here, as he rolls a joint to the disapproval of his married friend's square wife, he has Peter's insolence and puckishness.
(6) His face was puckish but kind, and flickered between reflection and mischief.
(7) Joe is a prototypical working class American male – stout, thick, jovial, moralistic, but with a puckish curiosity about how the other half lives.
(8) Jack is lanky, friendly and restless; Jade shorter, puckish, with a ponytail.
(9) I’ve hit a wall here.” The Republican presidential primary lost Lindsey Graham, its only voice of reason | Lucia Graves Read more Despite an accomplished résumé and a puckish sense of humor , Graham was never able to gain any traction in the Republican primary.
(10) Photograph: Karen Robinson Puckish Mathieu Amalric caught the pundits by surprise when he scooped the Cannes director prize for his 2010 burlesque caper On Tour.
(11) In recent years, she has dominated Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre: as the shape-shifting fairy in Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker ; as Strindberg’s fallen aristocrat Miss Julie ; as self-deluding alcoholic Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire ; and as a puckish but ferocious Hamlet , all directed by Sarah Frankcom .
(12) There are fewer flashes of the puckish humour these days and he is more cautious in his pronouncements, but he is nonetheless saying more than the government would like, and recent actions by his supporters speak still louder.
(13) The warmth of public affection for "the arch" was evident on Thursday amid the otherwise austere grandeur of the 19th-century St George's Cathedral , once a bastion of resistance to apartheid where the puckish Tutu rallied hearts and minds.
(14) From Warhol 's stars to the early incarnations of David Bowie , from the puckish sexual innocence of Marc Bolan to the studied posing of photographer Nan Goldin 's transvestite friends, from Iggy Pop 's self-destructiveness to Alice Cooper 's cultivation of a dangerous persona, the sense that the self is something to be constantly reinvented and performed remains a kind of lesson, however trite and contrived some of those performances might now appear.
(15) He seems more relaxed and puckish now, weaving though the streets of his adopted home town.
(16) Having resigned a couple of times before, I know how puckish lobby hacks might choose to misconstrue the departure.