Sentence examples for like a devilish from inspiring English sources

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She looked like a devilish music box ballerina.

Costello's bio-song isn't swing or blues; it's straight-ahead rock with a vicious central riff, on guitar and piano both, that sounds like a devilish version of Bob Dylan's "Solid Rock".

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We therefore assume that a man like Malick is playing a devilish game of anti-publicity, in order to stoke our curiosity; no less perilous, however, is our assumption that merely because a movie, or a novel, was pondered, and kept secret, for a lengthy period it must tower above its more precipitate peers.

Talk story about Hilary Knight, the children's book illustrator of "Eloise" who worked with the late Kay Thompson... "Eloise," which was first published in 1955, is the story of a skinny-limbed six-year-old who has a devilish spirit, much like Thompson's.

The New Yorker, May 31 , 1999P. 35 Talk story about Hilary Knight, the children's book illustrator of "Eloise" who worked with the late Kay Thompson... "Eloise," which was first published in 1955, is the story of a skinny-limbed six-year-old who has a devilish spirit, much like Thompson's.

Star attribute: A devilish smile — just like Dad's.

In many places, such a room might be described as a devilish sleep deprivation chamber, like the ones used in the late 1950's to determine whether prospective astronauts had the right stuff.

Sudeikis, who on "Saturday Night Live" brought a devilish glint to figures like Joe Biden and Mitt Romney, has been scootering to the East Village a lot lately, to star in a stage version of the 1989 film "Dead Poets Society," at Classic Stage Company.

Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 9.51pm AEST12:51 65 min: Hayne claims a devilish Thurston bomb, that spirals like a helix, and NSW are in all sorts trying to get out of their half.

"I like the noise and the smoke and everything," Mr. Chaix said with a devilish smile.

But "Love Crime" also works — like some of the later films of Claude Chabrol — as a devilish satire on power and eros in the executive suite.

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