Sentence examples for impish glee from inspiring English sources

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Regis Philbin bounded up to Mr. Martin, praising him for the brevity of his speech (he hadn't made one) with impish glee.

With impish glee, he pulled up his T-shirt to reveal his back, where zigzagged finger scratches were still swollen and bloody.

There's Bud Powell, toward the end of his tortured life, looking sad and lost; and Monk, playing piano with a pose so angular you can hear the percussive chords, or dancing, away from the piano, with impish glee.

FOR years Peter Allen has played off the two sides of his personality - the romantic singer-songwriter versus the glitzy showman - with an impish glee that implied he knew the difference between classy pop and kitsch.

Bald and stocky, with no longer any need for that trademark headband, Knopfler now looks more like a bricklayer than the 80s stadium rocker people remember, and ignores his back catalogue with impish glee.

Paul Theroux, in The Happy Isles of Oceania, claims, with impish glee, that the Pacific islander love of corned beef is because of its similarity in taste to human flesh.

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