Those treacherous little Japs are up to new and somewhat inspired deviltry in the South Pacific region, according to an anthropologist friend of ours.
There are so many great lines and situations in this 1984 movie that writers and directors have been stealing from it for years, just as they've been stealing from Sturges's other work, but no one has ever come close to the wildman deviltry of his best comedies.
For refusing to renounce the voices that guided her as deviltry, Joan, 19 years old, was burned at the stake before a jeering crowd, her charred body displayed to anyone who cared to examine it.
Strike that: it was debauched, a welcome flicker of deviltry in an otherwise rather regimented restaurant.
Although she left the décor as it was, she could not resist a bit of deviltry.
"The devil got at me early today!" There was a bit of deviltry in Stephen, allowed his cousin William M. Baltz of St . Petersburg who was known in the family as Billy, to distinguish him from Steve's brother, William A. Baltz (Willy), and Steve's father, William S. Baltz Stann).
It's a treat to see Ms. Foster, whose persona has always been one of radiant wholesomeness, turn subversively sexy when she dons her French alter ego in "Come Play Wiz Me," a duet with Mr. Esparza, whose manic glint and ingratiating deviltry make him perfect for Hapgood.
And even recycling can be accomplished with panache and deviltry.
Remember when Bugs Bunny learned that the bounty for a rabbit was just two cents and went on a crime spree, sawing Florida loose and filling the Grand Canyon? Finnegan is capable of similar deviltry Sunday, unless Naanee grabs him.
"The Dinner" has been wishfully compared to Gillian Flynn's "Gone Girl" (and enthusiastically endorsed by Ms. Flynn) for its blackhearted deviltry.
By Eugene Kinkead The New Yorker, October 30, 1943 P. 15 Those treacherous little Japs are up to new and somewhat inspired deviltry in the South Pacific region, according to an anthropologist friend of ours.
