10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PUCKISHLY»
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puckishly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez, ...
In getting a bearing on Hancock's politics as well as his personality — 'puckishly
cheerful' is the single phrase that perhaps best describes him — and status as an
historian, it is useful to bear in mind that in the 1 920s he wrote his first book on ...
William Roger Louis, 2006
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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
In this delightfully witty, provocative book, literature professor and psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard argues that not having read a book need not be an impediment to having an interesting conversation about it. (In fact, he says, in certain ...
Stephen King returns to the character and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a ...
White-haired and elegant like the real Mark Van Doren, Scofield is intellectually
alive but puckishly academic and almost infu- riatingly good. At- tanasio plants a
variety of hints, and Redford directs our attention to what's left unsaid between ...
Jim Slager, codeveloper with Eugene Hill of Intel's highly praised 80286 CPU,
puckishly opened his coat and unfurled a blueprint of the next generation 80386
chip. Jeff Garbers, creator of Microstuf” s Infoscope, peered down from the lofty ...
When Bowra turned down the offer of a Chair at Harvard, he puckishly wrote to
Murray to ask if perhaps Dodds 'would like it'.86 Years later, Dodds wrote to
Bowra to express his thanks for the way 'that old rumpus of 1936' had been
treated in ...
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The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion: How Feelings Link the ...
The English poet Margaret Cavendish, in 1653, puckishly characterized the
emerging—and smug—consensus of the times: “That all sound, sent [sic], sight is
created in the Braine. . . . That the blood goeth in circulation. . . . That all passions
...
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Al Qaeda's Great Escape: The Military and the Media on ...
The animal vendors looked each other up and down and preened, trimming their
lengthy beards with tiny scissors while looking puckishly into handheld vanity
mirrors. Some wore pakols, favored by Afghan ''freedom fighters''; others had their
...
I can still see him stepping from a cab as I put my head out of a sixth-story
window to drop a water bomb on a woman below, whom my puckishly patriotic
mind saw as a Japanese battleship with a peroxide deck. My father, however, is
playing ...
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Hollywood in the Holy Land: Essays on Film Depictions of the ...
As a boy Ondrej puckishly brings a gift to his (very) young stepmother's wedding,
a basket filled with flower petals but lined with baby bats. The insult provokes his
father to hurl him into a stone wall. When it appears Ondrej will die, his father ...
Nickolas Haydock, E.L. Risden, 2009
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PUCKISHLY»
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puckishly is used in the context of the following news items.
Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs, Southwark …
... capable and committed - who initially spend their time arguing about corduroy jackets and puckishly planning art heists. But it's when they form the Party of the ... «Huffington Post UK, Jul 15»
Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock dazzle with double piano duet at …
It's all flourish, Arabesque intricacy and long lyrical lines, and, quite puckishly, he opts for an extended prelude, reminding us by way of one concise lament after ... «Jazzwise magazine, Jul 15»
Where the Boys Are
Visually, “Cucumber” is puckishly content to have it both ways, with its disco musical cues and witty quick-cut editing. It discerns something toxic in beauty ... «The New Yorker, May 15»
'Aloha': Cameron Crowe creates a quotably bad movie in paradise
The regular business involves Bill Murray as a puckishly unshaven (am I sensing a theme here?) gazillionaire industrialist who's Brian's boss; the unfinished ... «The Seattle Times, May 15»
Megan McArdle: Obama accused of free trade sexism
All it does is keep them from offering amendments, which Warren puckishly calls “fixing it.” (Note: She doesn't mean “fix.”) Jacquelyn Martin / Associated ... «National Post, May 15»
Milwaukee Rep delivers campy take on classic in 'Peter and the …
Puckishly insisting he didn't even remember writing his most famous play, J.M. Barrie has been subjected to nearly continual psychological scrutiny — including ... «Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Apr 15»
The blur between acting, fakery
Hitchcock warrants icon status in part because he worked hard to craft a persona: the puckishly macabre master of suspense. But icons also provoke iconoclasm ... «Washington Post, Mar 15»
Berlin 2015 review: Knight of Cups – Malick's back! With the least …
... the bewitching (but in narrative terms entirely disposable) young women in floaty dresses dancing puckishly ahead of the man, occasionally turning round to ... «The Guardian, Feb 15»
Brandy Burre brings her work home in 'Actress'
“Actress,” Robert Greene's unnervingly self-reflexive and puckishly ironic documentary portrait of the title character as a discontented housewife, suggests that ... «Boston Globe, Feb 15»
BodyVox's 'Firewall' Aims to Burn the Disco Down. Say What?
And so begins this gauzy, puckishly directed performance, with the show's first two pieces playing on themes of fire, walls, and James Bondian spy(ware) games. «Portland Monthly, Dec 14»
