Sentence examples for as impish as from inspiring English sources

On a bad day, Porter was merely the cleverest wag on staff parchment; at the top of his game he could be as impish as a Lewis Carroll or as waspish as a Dorothy Parker.

About Radcliffe: he doesn't have a big voice; he's not a great dancer; he is not as impish or as madcap as Robert Morse, who originated the part.

He would be just as impish against the faster bowlers, ever ready to hit over the infield.

But this Working Title production is somewhat fuzzily life-affirming, and you wonder whether Hawking in his youth was quite as irrepressibly impish as Eddie Redmayne makes him here.

Mr. Murray, impish as ever, keeps the full range of Frank's motives and feelings tucked up his sleeve.

Rumsfeld comes across as articulate, impish and not a little smug.

The captivating soprano Julia Bullock brings a rosy, agile voice and light-footed grace to her performance as the impish Vixen.

The audience is invited to experience the work as an impish yet elegant vaudeville show.

He began to work the spinners round the park, even pulling out the occasional reverse sweep, all the while collecting runs as an impish pickpocket might collect coins.

Conceived as an impish protest against censorship, the foul-named little horse has not merely made government censors look ridiculous, although it has surely done that.

It is as the impish, inquisitive hero of the earlier film, with a mop of unruly black hair, that most audiences know Mowgli.