Sentence examples for a caper from from inspiring English sources

But today a show like "Undercovers," a caper from J. J. Abrams on NBC, is a tribute to advanced multitasking.

While many actors spend time in interviews rubbing their chins and talking about plumbing the emotional depths of particular roles, he makes moviemaking sound more like a caper from Spanky and Our Gang.

Maine sea scallops, too, got an acid bath from a caper and sherry vinegar sauce.

It came from an elderly South American woman who desperately wanted to bring seeds from a caper bush back home.

Soapy got his name from a caper way back in Denver where he conned people, with the aid of shills, to buy wrapped bars of soap on the pretense that there were dollar bills inside, including $100 bills.

I first met Robert around the time had just produced and directed a movie called The Dukes in which he played a doo-wop star who gets caught up in a caper to steal gold fillings from a dental office.

Trenchcoat (Channel 5 Sunday at 6 p.m). is an anemic 1983 mystery-comedy from Disney with a caper plot involving fledgling mystery writer Margot Kidder, who is the sole reason for sitting through this disappointment.

A dizzyingly paced crime caper from JK Rowling's alter ego Robert Galbraith is among six novels in the running for the title of Theakston Old Peculier crime novel of the year.

That fatal mistake is what keeps this caper from being more than a one-time pleasure.

(In later years, she had her biggest movie success as a villainous Russian secret agent in the 1963 James Bond caper "From Russia with Love").

(In later years, she had her biggest movie success as a villainous Russian secret agent in the 1963 James Bond caper "From Russia with Love"). This is not explained in the show, but Murphy should be familiar with her character's context.