Admittedly, Dave sacked Eric Pickles, their only authentic representative in cabinet, though the white and working-class north deserved better representation than that lazy rascal, so it may be progress.
He hoped it would mean he couldn't go to school, the rascal, but she was having none of that.
Mr Parker could be a rascal with the rest: softening up Mr Carter, for example, and stealing him away from a rival company to become his chief designer.
A DRIVELLING rascal, a bunch of jaded arty types and a pair of men afflicted with incurable illnesses: they may seem an implausible cast for a cinema revolution.
IN THE past fortnight, the Democrats have come up with lots of comfort-food explanations of George Bush's victory from the idea that the rascal stole the election for a second time (there were a mere 3.3m votes in it, after all) to the notion that he rode into Washington, DC, at the head of an army of hooded fundamentalists.
If anything, it has grown louder as reform plans take shape and the rascal ways of the political class are unmistakably identified as the main reason for the lack of prosperity.
Global Times, a Chinese English-language daily, denounced America as: "a mincing rascal".
The next two are also French: the veterans Georges Lautner (of such 1960s gangster films as "Les tontons flingueurs") and Claude Lelouch, whose 1996 comedy "Hommes, femmes: mode d'emploi" employed the photogenic real-life rascal Bernard Tapie.
His character Pito Pérez, a lovable rascal, won the hearts of a wide audience.
The embezzling rascal hero of Canqun ("The Military Counselor") became a stock character in later plays.
If Brand is a moral monolith, Peer Gynt is a capering will-o'-the-wisp, a buoyant and self-centred opportunist who is aimless, yielding, and wholly unprincipled, yet who remains a lovable and beloved rascal.
