Sentence examples for boyish mischief from inspiring English sources

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"He acts with a sense of boyish mischief – a good guy who is up to no good".

Drawn by Ubbe Iwerks, one of Disney's original animators, Mickey is presented as a happy-go-lucky character full of boyish mischief.

He conjured up John Gielgud: "His present performance as a simpering valet is an act of boyish mischief, carried out with extreme elegance and the general aspect of a tight, smart, walking umbrella".

I say the Observer will need a photograph to go with this interview and he asks with boyish mischief: "Couldn't we use her instead?" It is only after I get home that I realise I failed to ask him how he intends to spend his birthday.

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Thinking that the family's house is empty, the bungling Harry Joe Pescii) and Marv (Daniel Stern) try to break in, but the smart-alecky Kevin keeps the burglars at bay using boyish mischief-making skills to booby-trap his home with ice, toy cars and a blowtorch.

But in many ways they were really just boyish mischief-making, an expression of Kahn's ebullient and contrarian personality, his colleagues say.

He looked a decade younger than his 53 years, and he had a boyish sense of mischief.

At 67, Caetano Veloso still has a boyish grin, a kindly voice and mischief in his eyes.

Rosenberg is sixty-nine, small, unassuming, and bald, with a neatly trimmed goatee, but he exhibits a boyish smile, with a trace of mischief, when he recounts the excitement of turning around the club's fortunes.

Christian Borle, embodying the composer's boyish side, lends "My Dogs," a personal history of pets who have come and gone, a spirit of impish mischief.

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