"He was like a mischievous kid with that tape recorder," she recalled.
She still sees Joe as a mischievous kid trying to emulate Rocco and Frank, his brothers.
But only in the final scenes does the play drop the cheeky, superficial feel of an animated coloring book that has been aggressively scribbled in by a mischievous kid.
"He's a mischievous kid, always laughing.
Town planning is not the only means through which the school instills discipline in kids like Yang, a normally fun-loving teenager from Yuejin whom his father calls "the most mischievous kid in the village". Maotanchang's all-male corps of head teachers doles out lessons, and frequently punishments, with military rigor; their job security and bonuses depend on raising their students' test scores.
In the interview with Vaughan, Maynard paints a different portrait of his son who, as a mischievous young kid with bags of natural talent, was destined to play cricket.
"We were getting a lot of feedback from parents, saying that their kids loved the book - read in an altered form - because they recognised themselves in the character of the mischievous kid who's winning the bedtime battle, and thought it was hilarious," said the author of both books, Adam Mansbach.
It doesn't hurt, of course, that Mr. Sandler, despite his claims to physical unattractiveness, is as cute as a bug in that mischievous kid-brother way.
The idea will likely be caricatured by the notion of mischievous kids saying to their teachers, "Sorry Miss, you lost your bonus.
It's sturdier than the previous one, which mischievous kids ruined a while ago.
MacDougall had a mischievous sense of humour.
