Sentence examples similar to devilish set from inspiring English sources

Ramsay keeps it light and liquid and shot through with devilish set-pieces.

Erwin Schulhoff, a gifted Prague-born Jewish composer who perished in a Nazi camp in Bavaria in 1942, drew on vernacular sounds in his five "Études de Jazz," a set of devilish romps based on the Charleston, the blues, the chanson and the tango, and ending with an explosive take on Zez Confrey's novelty tune "Kitten on the Keys".

Beside him, in striped shirt and cutoffs, his son holds a hand to his chin and gives his father a devilish, appreciative look that sets the tone perfectly.

James Hetfield closed Metallica's set with his devilish cackle and a wish that all our "good intentions would meet their intended destinies".

Unlike his model, Balcairn commits suicide after crashing an unmissable party and being tossed out — a devilish exaggeration of how his set lived and finally died by publicity.

It must, therefore, work as the suspense-surprise-murder mystery it is concocted to be for real, as well as a spoof of all the techniques, set-ups and devilish behavior, plotting and tantrums of writers who would kill for a hit.

And "The Uninvited Guests" (Harper, $25), a devilish comic novel by Sadie Jones, is set inside "a strange, shallow red-brick manor house" in "Downton Abbey -era EnglAbbey -era

But a lot of devilish details remain to be worked out.

I wanted to be an academic but I discovered that the whole thing is set up in the most devilish way to kill that enthusiasm.

"One who has pride in his heart will never come close enough even to smell paradise," she reads, and explains the traps set for believers by their cunning, devilish egos.

Adriano this time set events in motion with a devilish low cross into the area, where Messi ghosted ahead of his man to score for the fourth time.