Earlier this year, Helen Oyeyemi, one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, retold Snow White in her mischievous fifth novel, Boy, Snow, Bird, braiding themes of race, gender and ethnicity without sacrificing any of the magic that we associate with the form.
Among other things, they seem to represent Martel's approach to his theme, his wish to combine the mischievous energy of the monkey and the perseverance of the donkey.
Oh yes, all the joyous things are here – dementia, incontinence, callous adult offspring – and yet Wrinkles is a tender, life-affirming piece, mischievous although it never tries to package its theme in a falsely cheery Last of the Summer Wine fashion.
— The mischievous sound operators at Bryant-Denny Stadium tried to establish a theme for No. 9 Alabama's game against No. 2 Auburn on Friday afternoon during pregame warm-ups.
At any rate, the afternoon's De Sadean theme continued back at the château, when Rollo O'Rourke, the jovial but mischievous Greenwich, Connecticut, munitions dealer, produced a bottle of absinthe.
This is Heilemann's theme, and it provides his book with a sense of structure and lots of mischievous gossip.
This goes right back to the pilot in 2012, which nodded to Philip Larkin, Harold Pinter and Angus Wilson, and is in the spirit of Colin Dexter's Morse novels, with their "mischievous quotations and chapter headings", and indeed composer Barrington Pheloung's use of Morse code in his theme tunes.
Happiness, unusually for a modern artist, is a theme in the early Calder, both in his largely serene childhood and in the largely mischievous art he made after.
January 5 2016 January 23 201616 Mischievous fun from start to finish, Mac Wellman's new play spins a poetic fantasia on historical themes.
It is a record of pared-down themes, rhythmic play, and open space; it almost floats with a sense of casual, mischievous intelligence.
I can also recall a certain mischievous young student early one morning, just before the Christmas break, playing Jingle Bells harmonised in the style of the main theme from Messiaen's Vingt Regards (the two are similar to a startling degree), and his benign, quizzical smile on entering; not a word was said.
