Sentence examples for rather impish from inspiring English sources

Death, while grim and grisly, turns out to have a rather impish sense of humor -- it is, indeed, a practitioner of irony in the loose, Alanis Morissette sense.

For roughly the first 10 years of his career, Graziano — shy, rumpled, and rather impish in person — produced groundbreaking work on how the brain understands and reacts to the space surrounding the body.

But in a feature by Susan Orlean in this week's New Yorker, the French designer comes across as rather impish and cute.

In the 20-odd years since their chaotic rise and messy demise, a number of legends have sprung up in the Sex Pistols' wake, among them that they were never a rock band at all but rather an impish piece of Conceptual Art masterminded by their manager, the erstwhile London boutique owner Malcolm McLaren.

But rather than impish satire, "The Next Cut" responds with a resigned feeling of commitment to simply continue, to press on.

The question would never have arisen had Rotten seen the rest of the photo shoot, where the Ramones look rather sweet and impish.

Rather, it is the impish, quick, almost furtive smile of someone caught in the middle of something.

Rather, he offers up jokes, teases and impish sidesteps, playing with ideas of collaboration and what artwork should consist of.

An impish five-minute Scherzo from 1880 sounds rather like a lost movement -- let's call it "Sojourn in Italy" -- from Dvorak's Serenade for Strings.

"We Czechs replace lightbulbs ourselves, so the operation doesn't get recorded in our GDP". Those who met the delightful dissident will remember his impish humour, and the panache he displayed in serving causes he supported rather than his own self-advancement.

Party insiders, rather bemused at the attention attracted by a remark they interpreted as tongue-in-cheek, were similarly impish in pointing out that "anything is possible" if Theresa May's government continued on its disastrous road towards Brexit.