Sentence examples for of a trickster from inspiring English sources
How much of a Trickster is the Author?
"They're kind of a trickster figure," Mr. Lee observed.
Susanoo, becoming conceited over his success, began to play the role of a trickster.
Something of a trickster, he sends ripples of delight into the group.
The hero is something of a trickster; he dissimulates his own powers, while exploiting the weaknesses of those around him.
Mr. Shelton, though, is a gentleman of the genre, and also a bit of a trickster figure.
Despite his grand plot to overthrow Zeus' throne, Hades takes the shape of a trickster-type character with serious anger management issues.
On the one hand, it mimics the shape of myths and fairytales: we have three distinct episodes of adversity, a trickster in Swiper, and a final triumph.
The course of the story is set by a prologue telling the legend of Maui, a trickster demigod who stole the goddess's fertility-giving heart-stone, but then lost the magical fishhook that enabled him to transform into other animals.
Through punning Erdrich destabilizes English and translates meaning into Ojibwe possibilities; she "converts" language while she puns on the word "conversion," which also means "reversal," which is, of course, a trickster strategy.
Spark was never a creator of character; she was a trickster of circumstances, a writer whose narrative voice speaks from the past or present or future at her own whim and will.
