tricksterish

Think impish and spritely, in thought as well as deed, the sort of tricksterish spirit who'd speak in riddles (c.f. the Gospel of Thomas) or be precociously sceptical (c.f. the "doubting Thomas" of the Bible ... doubting like a child being told about Santa Claus who knows it's a story).

Losts in Translation Hal Duncan 2006

Think impish and spritely, in thought as well as deed, the sort of tricksterish spirit who'd speak in riddles (c.f. the Gospel of Thomas) or be precociously sceptical (c.f. the "doubting Thomas" of the Bible ... doubting like a child being told about Santa Claus who knows it's a story).

Archive 2006-03-01 Hal Duncan 2006

So, he is safe from that aspect of my tricksterish tendencies.

Tigers & Strawberries » Eating Feet 2005

In terms of the more popular images of the devil as a kind of a cruel, tyrannical tricksterish evil, demon, or goblin, we need to think less in terms of the outward form of that figure but in terms of what it would feel like to be under the grip of such figures.

Evil, Tsunamis, and Problems... Mumon 2005

In the course of time I encountered, with considerable surprise, earlier phases of Bing: the tricksterish, self-mocking "Bing Crosby" he played in the 1932 movie The Big Broadcast, the jaunty jazz singer jamming with Bix Beiderbecke or Joe Venuti on early recordings like "That's My Weakness Now" and "Some of These Days."

All the Luck in the World O'Brien, Geoffrey 2001

Collaboration is the essence of hip-hop, yet this union leaps beyond business as usual partly because it Batman-and-Robins the genre's two most heroic innovators - heroic by commercial standards, but also by temperament, unlike more tricksterish contenders like Snoop Dogg and Lil Wayne or more self-questioning ones like latter-day Eminem.

NPR Topics: News 2011

Collaboration is the essence of hip-hop, yet this union leaps beyond business as usual partly because it Batman-and-Robins the genre's two most heroic innovators - heroic by commercial standards, but also by temperament, unlike more tricksterish contenders like Snoop Dogg and Lil Wayne or more self-questioning ones like latter-day Eminem.

NPR Topics: News 2011

Collaboration is the essence of hip-hop, yet this union leaps beyond business as usual partly because it Batman-and-Robins the genre's two most heroic innovators - heroic by commercial standards, but also by temperament, unlike more tricksterish contenders like Snoop Dogg and Lil Wayne or more self-questioning ones like latter-day Eminem.

NPR Topics: News 2011

Collaboration is the essence of hip-hop, yet this union leaps beyond business as usual partly because it Batman-and-Robins the genre's two most heroic innovators - heroic by commercial standards, but also by temperament, unlike more tricksterish contenders like Snoop Dogg and Lil Wayne or more self-questioning ones like latter-day Eminem.

NPR Topics: News 2011

Yet these women have done enough deep and hard work in the tricksterish realms, and somehow managed to 'protect the one precious gift' they've been granted in this life …

The Moderate Voice 2009