Sentence examples for trickster about from inspiring English sources

(Umberger told me in an e-mail, "Blacks without birth records often selected something their mother thought was close, maybe she knew the month it's more likely she recognized the change in the light and foliage of early spring"). There was a good deal of the trickster about Traylor; he was given to telling truths but, in the great formula of Emily Dickinson, telling them slant.

Let's not be tricksters about it.

Earlier Friday, I wrote about an interesting piece from Maggie Haberman, who spoke to renowned political trickster Roger Stone about the presidential ambitions of Donald Trump.

He cued up two segments in which Armstrong associates recite the African-American trickster story about the Signifying Monkey.

$17. (Ages 5 and up) A distinguished Jamaican-born British writer tells an original trickster story about the time a king offers a prize for whoever can create a palm tree that will yield palm wine.

"The simple gesture of taking one's passport out of one's pocket seems like a sleight of hand, it has something of a cheap trickster's magic about it," Steinhardt wrote.

I'm much more comfortable talking about how the trickster archetype plays out in my life than I am about why I feel threatened with intimacy".

The god's appearance will not puzzle or even startle readers, who, thanks to a preface, will know more about the trickster's plans than Aly does.

Hyde confesses himself unsure about "which trickster plot best matches up to Douglass's story". As he acknowledges, that story is more interestingly framed in terms of social history than in terms of myth.

This Christmas, a new, six-part adaptation of Neil Gaiman's mythical fantasy about the trickster God Anansi and his unsuspecting son Fat Charlie is coming to Radio 4. We're very happy to be broadcasting this story of love, laughter, music and murder; of old gods and new tricks.

In the folklore of the Costanoan, a native people of the Northern California coast, there is a story about Coyote, the trickster figure from whom all human beings descended.