Sentence examples for mischievous man from inspiring English sources

Daughter Melissa told the congregation her father was a "funny and mischievous" man who loved to play pranks but was also deeply emotional.

I have been lucky enough to interview three of these but it is my meetings with Rózewicz – a warm, wise and mischievous man – that remain most vivid in my memory.

He was a proud and mischievous man, thoroughly French, though Dan Hofstadter, writing in The New Yorker some years ago, compared Mr. Cartier-Bresson's appearance to that of "a Scandinavian socialist schoolmaster en route to a May Day parade".

This was a traditional travelling circus with 25 horses and caravans that toured the villages and small towns of France and Italy – Bidon, a diminutive and mischievous man, walked the tightrope for it.

He is a mischievous man, with short-cropped straight black hair and various quirks — including a willingness to say whatever is on his mind, a skepticism about all things Japanese (the Japanese occupied Taiwan during the war, after all), and a keen interest in the marital prospects of his unattached co-workers.

The words used by Richard Dawkins to commend John's last book, What Remains to be Discovered, published in 1998, form a splendid epitaph for this deeply serious, occasionally mischievous man: "Having stood godfather to so much recent science, no single individual is better placed to map out what remains to be discovered.

Sophomore Aavik Pakrasi plays Christopher Wren, a flamboyant and mischievous man-boy with a tendency to perch, bird-like, on furniture.

For safety and privacy reasons, going in groups for defecation was preferred by most women as they felt protected from the fear of theft and being harmed or attacked by mischievous men, and they felt less likely to be traced or seen by anyone while in a group.

In this mode, we see him act out a guide to dating, being bored in church, and as the victim of a mischievous invisible man.

Flores examines the mythology around the animals, which were often deified: Native Americans told stories of mischievous Old Man Coyote, the Aztecs worshipped the erotic god Nezahualcoyotl, and Carl Jung referred to the coyote deity as "a bestial and divine being".

He was at once urbane and mischievous, a man who had affairs with some of the most beautiful women of his day, yet always thought of himself as ugly.