(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.
Tinker
Definition:
(n.) A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware.
(n.) One skilled in a variety of small mechanical work.
(n.) A small mortar on the end of a staff.
(n.) A young mackerel about two years old.
(n.) The chub mackerel.
(n.) The silversides.
(n.) A skate.
(n.) The razor-billed auk.
(v. t.) To mend or solder, as metal wares; hence, more generally, to mend.
(v. i.) To busy one's self in mending old kettles, pans, etc.; to play the tinker; to be occupied with small mechanical works.
Example Sentences:
(1) For further education, this would be my priority: a substantial increase in funding and an end to tinkering with the form of qualifications and bland repetition of the “parity of esteem” trope.
(2) "We should be working out how it should be ended, rather than tinkering around the edges."
(3) The transport secretary, Philip Hammond, indicated that the government had no appetite for the kind of structural tinkering that broke up British Rail and rushed the system into private ownership in the 1990s.
(4) Tinker with the tax treatment of the elderly and prepare to be accused of imposing a "granny tax" .
(5) He also says that continual tinkering with pension rules by successive governments could deter people from investing in pensions.
(6) As the global financial crisis deepens, the rich nations will be forced to recognise that their problems cannot be solved by tinkering with a system that is constitutionally destined to fail.
(7) The pre-briefing we’re seeing, tinkering with schedules, now going on about pay, it’s very, very threatening to an institution that’s loved, [even one] that needs to reform.” Jeremy Hunt was the last culture minister to try to increase NAO oversight at the BBC, in 2010.
(8) Jean-Claude Juncker , the European commission president, told the Guardian in December that Cameron could tinker with British law on social security and migrant rights, but that enshrining discrimination in EU law was a no-go area.
(9) The tinkering with the tort system following the 1975 malpractice crisis will not ease the constantly increasing cost burden on the health care delivery system.
(10) At the very least, it would seem to be tinkering with the formula of the biggest spiritual brand in the world, analogous to Coca-Cola changing its famous recipe in 1985 .
(11) ET 10 min: Am I the only person who found Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy interminably dull?
(12) Happily, there are suddenly more alternatives, indies, blended play and new tech enabled hybrids, toys that encourage tinkering, making and individuality.
(13) This suggests that Labour’s answer to Ukip cannot be purely tactical or about tinkering with policy.
(14) The existence of multiple neuronal representations of sensory information and multiple circuits for the control of behavioral responses should provide the necessary freedom for evolutionary tinkering and the invention of new designs.
(15) Even after the Daily Mail's Jack Tinker (obituary, October 29 1996) contrived for Shulman's career as a theatre critic to be brought to an end in 1991, he continued to write a column for the Evening Standard on art affairs - until he was 83.
(16) The Tasmanian Liberal premier, Will Hodgman, opposed “tinkering” with the system.
(17) His personal favourite is probably his own 1926 vintage Bentley, and he admits to being in seventh heaven tinkering "to a fault" with any old engine he can get his hands on.
(18) I think a lot of the things they publish tinker on racism and Islamophobia … but at the same time I think they have a right to do what they do.
(19) But if these opportunities are squandered because tinkering at the edges seems safer than radical reform, we will have failed every future rape victim.
(20) The sounds he discovered on his guitar, refined during hours of solitary tinkering in his home studio, adorned records by Elvis Presley, Hank Williams and thousands of other artists, both country and pop.