Sentence examples for trickster of from inspiring English sources

While Hare is a common trickster of northern, eastern, and southern Africa, the trickster of West Africa is Spider Ghanaa, Liberia, Sierra Leone) or Tortoise (the Igbo and Yoruba people of Nigeria).

Ambiguous, multiple and competing meanings are the calling cards of the fast-rising trickster of Russian fashion, Denis Simachev.

As for Mr. Salstein, his Devil was a trickster of many moods, capable of being sly and also of bursting into tantrums.

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.

The greatest of Lope's immediate successors, Tirso de Molina (pseudonym of Fray Gabriel Téllez), first dramatized the Don Juan legend in his Burlador de Sevilla (1630; "The Trickster of Sevilla").

Among dramatists, Choijamtsiin Oidow became best known for Dalan khudalch ("The Trickster of 70 Lies"), a comedy based on a folk tale; it was similar to the play Budamshuu (1954) by Tsyren Galzutovich Shagzhin, Oidow's Buryat contemporary.

I also wrote "Crazy Wisdom," a book about the common threads of wit and chutzpah that unite mystics, jesters and tricksters of history.

To describe "The Boss of It All," Lars von Trier's acidic corporate comedy, as " 'The Office Viewed Through thee Looking Glass" only scratches the surface of the newest film from one of the foremost tricksters of world cinema.

Hals's earliest known work dates from 1611, when he was about 29, a year after Caravaggio's death at 38. Hals, a high-spirited Dutchman, and Caravaggio, a tempestuous Italian, each found inspiration among the tipplers, seducers and tricksters of their era's demimondes, though with decidedly different results.

African-American slave stories were the basis for Joel Chandler Harris's "Uncle Remus" tales, starring Br 'er Rabbit who, in his incarnation in the 1946 Disney movie "Song of the South" — rarely seen today, because of the racism of its live-action sections — was one of the most popular tricksters of mid-twentieth-century popular culture.

Hubbard was one of the great scoundrel tricksters of American history (the competition is intense); a man who was fuelled and inspired by his own myth, a flamboyant charismatic, inclined to bombast, fantasy and running for cover whenever the heat came on.