Sentence examples for mischievous response from inspiring English sources

Mr. Meloy is an anti-confessionalist: his devotion to artifice is a mischievous response to other singer-songwriters' promises of truth.

Updike's mischievous response was to make his puffed-up Jewish-writer hero Henry Bech - in Bech: A book (1970) and Bech is Back (1982) - a darling of the Commentary crowd.

I suppose where I make a joke about prejudice in this clip, it's my own fairly mischievous reaction to that – and it's this joke that gets the best response from the audience on the night.

I received a slightly mischievous chuckle in response.

We are left with the question of why, if regulations are usually a legitimate response to mischievous games played by some parties in the private sector, these regulations are often so inchoate, if not outright silly.

"I'm looking forward to it," was as far as he would go, although some muck-diggers will doubtless find a mischievous prod in his response to Donald's claim.

At one point, a drone hovered in a circle around my face, its mischievous pilot provoking a response from me from another room.

In response to a mischievous question, each one chipperly told me that his or her favorite writer was Michael Lewis.

Liz's mischievous smile and carefully worded response "I promise I won't write a word," apparently did not tip Jack off, even though you'd think a Six Sigma ninja like him would be able to recognize loophole-laden responses.

There is another reason for the current nuclear push – part mischievous, part sincere and all in response to one of humanity's existential challenges – climate change.

Upon reminding Mr. Buckley of our first meeting, he offered, in response, that trademark grin and those mischievous, leaping eyebrows — a gesture understandably denied almost twenty years before.