Sentence examples for prank of a from inspiring English sources

The seemingly harmless prank of a tossed egg has been perceived as a kind of ultimate insult, the sudden splatter and mess touching off a rage in people.

Silly and engaging, these rappers have room for everybody in their surreal (and not at all accidental) prank of a career.

But one can also see it as the consummate prank of a satirist who, in the words of W. G. Sebald, found a dark humor in "the tension between the insanity of the world and the demands of reason".

"I am deeply outraged by a prank of a Gdansk Fine Arts Academy student whose pseudo-art desecrated the memory of 600,000 Soviet soldiers who died in the fight for Poland's freedom and independence," wrote Alexander Alekseev, the Russian envoy.

In the face of today's chronic hyper-excitement, where the prank of a bewigged TV personality and the somewhat exaggerated response of a show-business loudmouth can be portrayed as the apex of provocativeness and daring, it is hard not to be nostalgic for Maurice Clavel.

Punk Prayer had been designed and performed very much in the Moscow Conceptualist mould: it was a brilliant prank of an artwork, and no one had planned to go to prison over it.

Perhaps she wanted to see if the limitations of genre were paradoxically liberating, or perhaps she just wanted to play literary pranks of a more subtle variety.

2. Explore the pranks of a British graffiti artist by reading and discussing the article, "Need Talent to Exhibit in Museums?

They have been friends for close to two decades now, a bond forged by love of horses, ski vacations in Switzerland and assorted pranks of a high and low variety.

Those days are over, or should be, but they linger on in this book, which ignores entire cultures while meticulously cataloging the marital mishaps and bad-boy pranks of a few Establishment "rebels".

You may think that 1968 was a long time ago, and also, if you are Little-British, that the pranks of a bunch of French pseuds from half a century ago have little bearing on contemporary matters; if you do, good luck to you, and don't let the door bang your behind on the way out.