Sentence examples for mischievous delight from inspiring English sources

The media herd took a mischievous delight in the previous incumbents' PR uneasiness.

In a juxtaposition that causes her no end of mischievous delight, her laptop bears a sticker of Snow White, whose outstretched arm gently cradled the Apple logo.

The success of confrontational reality shows exposes the gap between our noblest self-image and our mischievous delight in others' conflicts.

During the middle years of this decade, Wasps took mischievous delight in turning rugby orthodoxy on its head by winning trophies without the benefit of a fully functional scrum – or, come to that, a line-out worthy of the name.

But Amis's mischievous delight in language and the extreme brevity of his chapters also give the work a jaunty feel, so that the great sombre themes of old age and death are transformed into the prose equivalent of a jig.

Two examples Baier gives (pp. 443 44) are a feeling of "mischievous delight" at your beloved's temporary bafflement, and amusement at her embarrassment.

Around the limited framework, director Wils Wilson and her team have built a mischievous, boisterous delight of a show.

To accord it this treatment, though, is to risk betraying its improvisatory, mischievous spirit, and to cheat yourself of its impish delights.

He was immediately noticeable as a rather mischievous character who delighted in asking the presenters awkward questions.

I remember an extremely provocative, mischievous character who delighted in taking the piss out of everything and anyone, including his friends.

But while the common forebear behind those works is W. G. Sebald, Gospodinov's model is Borges, whose delight in mischievous games and extravagant fantasy he shares; for all Gospodinov's obsession with sorrow, he is a trickster at heart, and often very funny.