The film's central star, Colin Firth, has said of the scene: "I just think we're going more for the mischievous hint that it's [Obama].
Dressed like a 30s gangster or a 40s Harlem hipster, a huge hat on his large head, his ample figure and rubbery face, with its mischievous hint of Mr Toad, were warmly welcomed wherever he went.
Ms. Cooper created swirls of sound in the onrushing opening movement and brought a mischievous touch to the captivating third piece, with its hints of gremlins in the night.
There is, as well, the home worth $1 million, the cars worth a quarter of that, and the pricelessly mischievous smile that hints rather indiscreetly at profligate spending to come.
As this was translated, a hint of mischievous amusement appeared on the face of one of the women, and with sudden cheerful recklessness she declared, "We didn't have any village elders".
And Michael Shannon turned out to be everything I thought he would be, complex, deep, dark, with a hint of mischievous and an elusive smile that could melt the North Pole.
Richardson projected a personality unique in the British theatre, one that was charming and refined, but also mischievous and capable of hinting at sinister or tragic depths in the characters he played.
And then, in a mildly mischievous tone, Le Monde hinted that the Times was, like it, an organ of the great Centrist Consensus: "Nothing could be worse, in the uncertain period that began on September 11th, than to identify the American people as a whole, and the American press, with the policies followed by the Maison Blanche.
There is also a hint of the mischievous Machiavel about Spacey's performance that for me lifted the whole evening.
Then Mr. Paterson, who is legally blind, looks into camera with a hint of a mischievous grin and says, deadpan, "And if you say you can't see all that, well, you're blind".
Others who grew into distinctive artists are Charles Demuth, represented by seven gorgeous watercolors; Marsden Hartley, who painted still lifes and landscapes with a far heavier hand than Cézanne ever did; and Man Ray, whose pastoral New Jersey landscape from 1913 gives no hint of the mischievous shape-shifter he was to become.
