Word: roguish
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...standing out in his neck, his face reddened, veins throbbing in his temple, and words rasping out to the accompaniment of table-pounding thumps of his fist. The next, he was all nuzzling friendliness, apple-cheeked and soft-eyed, speaking of eternal peace with a gap-toothed smile and roguish gestures...
...speakers of Irish English (the barroom Irish of Manhattan's Third Avenue are tedious professionals) and with the talkers of Elizabethan England, if their playwrights bear true witness. In writing about such magnificent lingoists, color threatens to overwhelm shape, as it very nearly did in Naipaul's roguish first novel, The Mystic Masseur. In these sketches about Port of Spain, he lets shape find its own way home. This makes it hard to tell just how good a writer he may be, but the color, at least, is brilliant...
...Roguish World of Dr. Brinkley, by Gerald Carson. A sparkling biography of the quack who became a millionaire with his radio-advertised promise that old men, through goat-gland implants, could become potent old menaces...
...Roguish World of Doctor Brinkley, by Gerald Carson. The biography of the greatest medical quack ever to barter colored water for cash tells a wild but true story in an appropriately cornball style...
...Roguish World of Doctor Brinkley, by Gerald Carson. The biography of the greatest medical quack ever to barter colored water for cash tells a wild, but true, story in an appropriately cornball style...