In their class plays and assembly programs, she always played the part of the impish little sister, while David, for some reason, played the father, with talcum powder in his hair.
She's wearing the kind of bright casual outfit that neither Hope nor Murray could get away with, but you'd think that her distinctive features – she looks like Kristin Scott Thomas's impish younger sister – would draw attention.
Rebuffed by her, Cohen-Solal writes, Castelli turned his attentions to her "impish, refined" sister, Ileana, who later said, none too sentimentally, "as I wanted to get out of Romania at any cost, I married him".
If the men she encountered were unaccustomed to dealing with a hard-driving business woman in a habit, Sister Irene, a raconteur with an impish sense of humor, knew how to put them at ease and rarely stopped there.
In the year since the death of Mother Teresa, the impish, charismatic founder of the Missionaries of Charity, her successor, Sister Nirmala, has gladly cast herself in the inimitable stooped shadow of the woman who began the Roman Catholic order almost half a century ago to succor the poorest of the poor.
Dr. Oswald, who wore two hearing aids and had an impish smile, is survived by his wife, Eileen; his sons, Patrick, of Alamo, Calif., and Michael, of Chula Vista, Calif.; a sister, Roberta Oswald of King City; and eight grandchildren.
Cheery, impish Chris was thriving.
