Sentence examples for puckishness from inspiring English sources

Over the years, West has lost none of his puckishness.

His puckishness verges on the pathological, calling to mind Jim Carrey's more manic creations, as well as the title character of "Ed," whose quixotic and supposedly amusing attempt to win over a woman was a grating case of narcissism without charm.

With his puckishness and fast motor, he remains an almost ineffably appealing presence.

But where Mr. Baldessari paid tribute to the puckishness of Magritte, Mr. Demand appreciates his more arcane, cryptic side.

And Mr. Grey does his time-tested combination of music-hall shtick and "little ol' me" puckishness that became his post- Cabaret" signature when he apost- Cabareteorge M!" 43 yearsignature

The director's puckishness starts to grate pretty quickly.

With all its loose energy, its generosity of attention and invention, its puckishness and wild similes, its lyric intensities and its sudden lurches of feeling, The Yips is a novel that's more than just odd.

Here, as he rolls a joint to the disapproval of his married friend's square wife, he has Peter's insolence and puckishness.

In the 60s he had an uphill struggle, against a heavy-handed artistic conservatism suspicious of the lighter touch, humour, puckishness, paradox".

Part of the charm is the automatic montage — the switch from camera to camera, and from neighborhood to neighborhood, offers a patchwork that, in its mechanical bluntness, simulates with involuted puckishness a calculated cross-section.

In a moment of inspired puckishness, a sculpture of marching soldiers by a fellow Czech, Vladimir Janousek, was positioned so that it appeared to be marching from the nearby Soviet pavilion to the boot marks of "The River," as if it were a representation of the Russian and Germany armies that had occupied his homeland for most of his life.