Word: devilish
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Hiller concocts elaborate electronic toys to amuse the boy and an equally complex running fairy tale to divert him from his loss. Their unsentimental relationship is developed with a clarity that makes a shining contrast with the instinctive violence of their criminal associates and the devilish complexity of the heist. Hiller's contributions to the proceedings are as witty as the toys he builds for True, and the denouement of the whole tale is gratifying. But it is constant, often startling, shifts in the film's emotional tone, the economy of its writing and its lively movement through the - bleak...
Sounds easy? No, no, no, because the devilish evildoer has chosen to foil his pursuers by following an unusual plan of action: he has gone on a fishing expedition into the mountains, a trip led by Kirstie Alley of Cheers...
Brian Barringer--all 6-ft., 1-in, 185 lbs. of him--may be looking up to his teammates, but some Yale cornerback is going to have a devilish time looking...
There was something instinctively satisfying about the resounding blast of a bottle rocket in a neighbor's mailbox. And nothing compares to the devilish glee of aiming a bottle rocket at a nosy dog and watching it tail him down the street. (Naturally, we made sure he could scamper off unharmed, but we weren't as concerned for the welfare of the ants we rolled exploding tanks over...
...With madness, as with vomit, it's the passer-by who receives the inconvenience," says a character in Joe Orton's one-act satire The Erpingham Camp. No doubt about it, playwright Joe Orton was a great, corrosive farcist. With such devilish lines, he's been pricking up everyone's ears for the past two decades, and it's been audiences who've felt the inconvenience of his caustic, mad wit. He was so talented, even the cheeky, musical imps of the perverse, The Beatles, had Orton working on an original screenplay when he was bludgeoned to death...