Her art is mischievous, humorous and romantic; narrative abstraction, so to speak.
Throughout his long career, the Iranian writer-director Abbas Kiarostami has combined a fond, almost courtly respect for his characters with a mischievous tendency to twist his narratives into unexpected shapes.
In a 1996 book review of "The World of Edward Gorey, Steve Hellerr wrote in The New York Times that the artist's satires "are not mere commentaries on the manners and mores of a distant age; they are inventive narratives about evil adults, mischievous children, illicit lovers and improbable beasts".
In true Weedgie style, Jeremiah gives it narrative loads, by turns intense, mischievous and sentimental, as he becomes the presence you want to avoid in the pub.
Mr. Schaffert's own narrative drops a number of nicely mischievous references to the 10 books in the Miranda-and-Desiree series.
(In mischievous fashion, Harris drops occasional "facts" about Britain into the narrative: an assured young SS officer has all the "English coolness" learned at the SS Academy in Oxford; the country is nominally ruled by King Edward VIII and Queen Wallis).
Thanks to the internet, brands can take control of their narrative, ahead of the coruscating heat of social media, and before our mischievous blogsphere undermines them.
Thai kings, mandarins, politicians and schoolbooks have long nurtured the narrative of Thailand as a nation that has lost territories to foreign powers and mischievous neighbours.
Inevitably, some characters, like Clare's mischievous, secretive sister, Tamsin, never receive Hadley's full attention and end up seeming implausible, adrift in the narrative.
His eye for striking compositions was allied to strong narrative skills, with a preference for shooting on film; his use of camera angles conveyed an inventive and sometimes mischievous spirit.
