Sentence examples for mischievous effect from inspiring English sources
The middle third of the image reversed, and that portion of the waterfall flowed upward — a mischievous effect that undercut any sentimentality.
In Victorian England, George Vasey, the author of "The Philosophy of Laughter and Smiling," argued the very opposite, that laughter was a kind of sickness, like a coughing fit, and that "these absurd and stupid excitements are not only unnecessary and vulgar, they are positively mischievous, producing effects which are invariably injurious, and sometimes fatal".
The effect is both powerful and mischievous.
But whatever nostalgia might hover around this movie is subverted by its mischievous, inventive and entirely appropriate use of digital special effects.
In what seems a mischievous upending of expectations, the acoustic instruments imitate sound effects associated with electronic techniques: bleeps, slides, every-which-way splatterings of fast notes.
Mischievous Milanese insiders say that Mr Tronchetti Provera, whose family in effect owns less than 1% of Telecom Italia, wanted to head the telecoms giant because it offered more power and prestige than running Pirelli.
There's pop artist Gade, reminiscent of the mischievous appropriation of Ron English, fusing Buddhist imagery with American icons like Mickey Mouse and Spiderman to visualize the effects of globalization on Tibetan life.
A mischievous smile spreads.
(Their approximation: "mischievous mating").
