Word: impishness
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...must get their hand stamped at the turnstile, walk a few yards to the nearest hotel bar and drown their rancor there. The Pinocchio and Star Tours rides, among others, provide French dialogue, but visitors who have no English will miss the verbal nuances that lend the park its impish...
...actors and actresses in this skit made their caricatures authentic and skillfully enunciated the unusual dialogue. Sperling particularly stood out for her impish smile and flirty but prudish body language...
...highly improbable protagonist's role -- Peter Pan grown up? Peter Pan, a Type A investment banker? -- it is hard to imagine anyone other than Robin Williams. After all, the arc of Hook's Peter Pan -- an impish, Dionysian youngster, after a painful struggle with worldly temptation, finds his family to be the source of true happiness -- is a pretty fair summary of Robin Williams' life...
...decide about Roe v. Wade has no bearing upon what Anita Hill claims about his conduct. Sometimes men sexually harass vulnerable women. Women may have predatory agendas too. Not all women are innocent, vulnerable victims. And sometimes men are monsters. Reality is rich and impish and asymmetrical. It laughs at manifestos...
...contrast to the mercurial Yeltsin, Gorbachev is safe and sound. Consider, for example, Yeltsin's statement on Russian territorial claims against other republics. It seemed to explode on the political scene like a firecracker tossed by some impish prankster. Then, in characteristic style, the Russian leader slunk out of Moscow, leaving no official word of his whereabouts, though he was presumed to be on his way to one of the Baltic republics. Such acts are the stuff of grand legends, not sound policies. And they are most definitely not characteristic of the cautious Gorbachev style of leadership...