| 单词 | prankish |
| 例句 | The assembled, who knew not Dr. Trefusis’s prankish humor, little knew what to make of this curious discourse. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z But there was nothing prankish about ruining the sneakers. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Come,” he says, prankish, leading me through the house. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Around 1936, when the legendary New York dealer Paul Rosenberg acquired it from Picasso, such pictures were seen as prankish creations, which made them virtually unsalable. The Winning Card at Auction: Expressiveness 2010-05-07T11:30:00Z Workplaces, theater marquees, pillows, municipal services: everything starts to absorb their prankish tendencies until the ending sequence combines it all into a kind of over-the-top, technicolor uneasiness. "Dicks: The Musical" puts two narcissist bros under a joyous, filthy spotlight 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z “Stock Tank” highlights her unusual way with color and point of view, as well as her prankish sense of humor. Photographer Julie Blackmon: Making suburbia sublime 2013-06-27T21:15:17Z Kaufman was a prankish provocateur and frequent guest of David Letterman’s “Late Night” program. Andy Kaufman and Redd Foxx to Tour, Years After Death, as Holograms 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Jeffries gets him his own show, and his prankish experiments demonstrate the power that a winning, confident personality can wield when he connects with his audience’s gripes and hopes. The movie that foretold the rise of Donald Trump 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Some of it is prankish or silly; but much more of it is strange, surrealist, sometimes twisted and dark. TV Picks: 'Thunderbirds,' 'Incredible Crew,' UCB does 'Seinfeld' 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Hitchcock was known for a dark prankish side that could unnerve some in the cast, and Ms. Pilbeam’s age did not immunize her. Nova Pilbeam, British teen star of 1930s Hitchcock films, dies at 95 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Beneath its prankish or weird surfaces — a set by Nautical Almanac included some creatively guided hypnotherapy — Trip Metal was just as history-minded as Movement. Made in Detroit, Differing Music Models 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Wilson’s sensibility is more humane than harsh, poetic than prankish. The Best Half-Hour of Comedy in 2020 Is About … Scaffolding? 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z The selection of some prankish works contributed to that. Novelty Sets Cheerful Tone for Christie's Contemporary Auction 2010-07-01T17:00:00Z As hacking evolved from a fringe pursuit of prankish teenagers to a weapon employed by nation-states, the Justice Department struggled to keep up. ‘Dawn of the Code War’ Review: The Cyber Threat Reconsidered 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Nirvana, skeptical and noisy and prankish, seemed as if it wanted to destabilize or overthrow rock — the history of it, the business of it, the attitudes around it. Scott Weiland, a Symbolic Voice of the Shifting ’90s Rock Scene 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Struggles over inheritance are always painful -- unless, of course, they take place in a French farce, in which case they are endlessly prankish and ribald. Highly engaging low farce in 'The Heir Apparent' at ICT 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Without a break, he then played Beethoven’s Sonata No. 18 in E-flat, a joyous, sometimes prankish piece that you don’t hear too often. Review: Trifonov, in Risky Program, Doesn’t Fail to Thrill 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z This is Mr. Echols’s other mode, prankish and fond of dumb jokes. Now Damien Echols Will Teach You the Secrets of Magick 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z "The Gentlemen" continues to showcase his crass flash, featuring more sophomoric antics than prankish teenage schoolboys. From "Hillbilly Elegy" to "The Gentlemen," here are the worst films of 2020 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z What if some prankish or disgruntled theatergoer decides to poke his umbrella onstage to trip up a runner? ArtsBeat: Running in Circles: 'Chariots of Fire' in London 2012-06-28T14:59:50Z Their friends, who prankishly arrange their match, may think they understand what makes Beatrice and Benedick run. Arts & Leisure: At the Theater, You Can Feel the Connection 2011-07-20T11:53:32Z The typically prankish piece purported to be a solo exhibition by Ms. Ono at the museum. MoMA Plans a Yoko Ono Show 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z And yet the show's prankish confidence says, "Keep watching, greatness might be right around the corner" -- and sure enough, sometimes it is. "Glee's" utterly charming season finale 2011-05-25T08:26:00Z The title refers to a mysterious network of anti-corporate militants whose activities — called “jams” — shade from prankish agitprop toward outright terrorism. Movie Review: ‘The East,’ Written by Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling 2013-05-30T20:11:16Z The music is alternately lyrical, eerie, rambunctious and prankish. Paul Taub's 'Edge': local flutist explores periphery of Europe 2011-11-03T20:00:10Z So in just moments he established the overall nature of this bold sonata as music that shifts between the prankish and the eloquent, the simple and the fancy. Review: Andras Schiff Turns Mischievous at Carnegie Hall 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Structured in nine movements, this 33-minute piece goes through a gamut of styles and unpredictable moods, from pensive to prankish to harrowing. Classical Recordings: POUL RUDERS 2011-06-10T14:29:27Z This movie is in a different register and is conspicuously calculated as a cash-grab, but traces of the same prankish spirit can be detected. Honey, we lost the president!: Samuel L. Jackson as POTUS wandering the wilderness is just one reason you shouldn’t skip the delightfully ludicrous “Big Game” 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z As Leif and Matthew’s romance deepens, so does the Working Group’s prankishly subversive efforts, which include an intuited password and the hacking of a Homeland Security contractor. Review | Surveillance, hacking, government overreach: ‘Overthrow’ tackles modern fears 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Then I remembered Richard E Grant, whose witty turn as the prankish accomplice to writer Lee Israel in Marielle Heller’s Can You Ever Forgive Me? threatens to to steal the show from Melissa McCarthy’s fraudster. My Oscar goes to... Our film critics reveal their personal shortlists 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Inability to define “fin de siècle” aside, I thought myself prankish, a little bit bawdy, and my style swerved a bit flower-child-punk. Feminist flamethrowers: Laura Kipnis, Camille Paglia and the modern sex wars 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z He was a courtroom artist during the trial and also helped illustrate Mr. Hoffman’s prankish best seller “Steal This Book.” Skip Williamson, Underground Cartoonist, Dies at 72 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Corden has employed many ideas that longtime Letterman fans will find familiar, including prankish remote segments in which he ineptly moonlights in a sales job or takes a star to a fast-food drive-through. David Letterman Leaves His Successors a Rich Comedic Bequest 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Korine has always had a hand in other creative endeavors, which coalesce into something of a unified worldview that mixes an outsider’s love of pop culture, prankish humor and thoughtful artistic explorations. Harmony Korine explains the 'vibes' and 'vapors' of his hallucinatory 'Aggro Dr1ft' 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z What the prankish and abundantly coifed 40-year-old Mr. Gaetz, a Florida Republican, plans to do with his new clout is a matter of intense speculation in Washington. Matt Gaetz, Political Arsonist, Has New Powers. What Will He Do With Them? 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z The movie, however, shrewdly relishes all identities in its mix of the humor inherent in his prankish folly and the sentimentality of a pie-in-the-sky dream. Review: Mark Rylance makes golf irresistible in inspiring true story 'The Phantom of the Open' 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Morse later said he battled depression and alcoholism while trying to branch into dramatic roles, frustrated at being typecast as a prankish star of musical comedies. Robert Morse, Tony-winning comic actor, dies at 90 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z He went on to become a film and television mainstay for five decades, taking roles that often reflected the prankish, street-wise reputation he had acquired off-camera, partying with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Seymour Cassel, mischievous character actor of independent films, dies at 84 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z But, over time, his plots would become ever more prankish, impish, outlandish. He’s One of Brazil’s Greatest Writers. Why Isn’t Machado de Assis More Widely Read? 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z While I freely admit that I don’t get this type of entertainment, a lot of people seem to enjoy his prankish, MTV-style antics. YouTube star Adam Saleh's story is shocking – but only if it's true | Moustafa Bayoumi 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z A critical hit at Cannes, Telluride and Toronto, this unclassifiable third feature from German writer-director Maren Ade miraculously synthesizes prankish comedy, family drama and corporate satire into a singular whole. From 'Dark Night' to 'Toni Erdmann,' 10 films to see at the AFI Fest 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z And their prankish camaraderie made fans feel like members of their extended social circle. Blink-182: Punk for All Ages 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z “It appears more prankish, but obviously very dangerous,” said Michael Workman, a San Diego County spokesman. Homemade bomb explodes at Escondido school for foster kids, officials say; teen arrested 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Was he being prankish, playfully pricking establishment balloons, or was he making a serious point? Conceptual art: why a bag of rubbish is not just a load of garbage 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Sex is nature’s way—coercive, prankish, and pleasurable–of ensuring survival of the species. Camille Paglia: Feminists have abortion wrong, Trump and Hillary miscues highlight a frozen national debate 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z As much as the emails reveal jockeying between the White House and State Department, they also show the prankish camaraderie that existed between staff members in both camps. Agency Rivalries and Satire Show Up in Latest of Hillary Clinton’s Emails 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Margo’s agenda is to extract revenge on her cheating boyfriend, which she does, with some reluctant help from Q, in prankishly creative ways. Review: ‘Towns’ is modest, middle-of-the-road teen drama 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Even if he was attempting a joke, the ensuing debate easily transcends any prankish value. Mark Cuban Ignites Digital Health Firestorm On Twitter 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Silly, prankish responses were not uncommon, but neither were messages of enthusiasm and thanks. R U There? 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Programmer Darius Kazemi, who said on his website in February that he would begin developing Scripto on a part-time basis, has an even more extensive history with funny Twitter bots and other prankish software projects. Stephen Colbert's In-House Tech Startup Wants to Fix TV Scripts 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Their targets were an eclectic mix, only loosely political, often prankish in nature. Former LulzSec hacker on motivations 2013-05-16T15:23:25Z Some hoped that Ravi would be sentenced to years in prison to scare off others from ‘prankish’ invasions of privacy. Dharun Ravi Gets Off Easy In Clementi Case: Month In Jail And $10,000 Fine 2012-05-21T17:21:10Z Active from May to late June, when it claims to have disbanded, LulzSec’s hallmark was prankish attacks accompanied by public mockery. Cybercrime: Black hats, grey hairs 2011-08-03T19:17:54Z The prankish action of the ghosts in cutting the pockets out of trousers. The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. 2011-07-02T02:00:10.980Z The glitter in Alf Neely's small eyes was about as reassuring as the glitter in the eyes of a slightly prankish gorilla. Asteroid of Fear The big boy brother who had taken her to the little Carew Crossing station only two months before, rough and prankish as the colt he drove, but gentle withal, was gone. The Mountain Girl I note he’s a bit more prankish an’ disobliging, every fall when he comes back. Dorothy at Oak Knowe Nude and winged the prankish blade is, And he speedeth everywhere, Vexing gentlemen and ladies, Callow youths and damsels fair Whom he catcheth unaware,— Venturing even into Hades, He hath sown his torments there! Second Book of Verse It was a great, lumbering mass of affection, a shaggy, loving, prankish beast. The Inhabited Thank the Lord that Bubs was so trusting, for his own peace of mind—the prankish and savage nature of certain kinds of men, with liquor in their bellies, being what it was. Asteroid of Fear But not Don Quixote, so full of irony, humour, and pathos; not Elektra, in the strictest sense of the word a melodrama, and certainly not the prankish and ever inimitable Till Eulenspiegel. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Later, the eddying winds sometimes shot prankishly down it and playfully chased the smoke back into the room, but this only blackened the stones, giving my fireplace an air of antiquity. A Mountain Boyhood There were spiteful showers with intervals of mocking sunshine; it was a mischievous and prankish bit of weather, no day for riding. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit Deep down in the ravine the waters meandered, calmly tranquil: very like mature thoughtful manhood, after the prankish follies of youth are past. Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young The "prankish fop" and "graceless fellow"—whose affection had indeed been hitherto no great compliment to a woman, being lightly caught and as lightly lost—was to his own surprise falling very honestly in love. Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) Surely this was the current of a prankish dream. Desert Dust This prankish mood of the crew was shown in their efforts to make Dinshaw uncomfortable. Isle o' Dreams In the main this harper thought the man now buffeting France a just king, and, the crown laid aside, he had heard Sire Henry to be sufficiently jovial and even prankish. Chivalry Mr. Catbird was always prankish and full of spirits. The Tale of Bobby Bobolink Tuck-me-In Tales To mark this last ball of the year the young officers introduced some of the prankish features of their happy cadet days. Betty at Fort Blizzard She chides them for their duplicity, then extols them for their prankish playfulness. The Vitalized School "Hail!" they shouted to the warrior, for the desert races are prankish and unabashed. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt To Hal they seemed casual, purposeless; rather prankish, too, like a lot of urchins out on a lark. The Clarion To his amazement she burst into prankish laughter. The Palace of Darkened Windows No fault of his if Fate grew prankish and set the stage with gold brocade and an ancient boat and such a ferryman. Kenny Unless nature had fashioned them in some vagrant, prankish mood, such elegance of line betokened prior generations in which gentlemen and scholars had played some part—the vagabond scion of a good family, perhaps. Judith of the Plains It was as though Nature, in prankish mood, had given a cabbage the colour and texture of a rose, with none of its fragile reticence and grace. Half Portions And all transgression and injury, under one procedure, which is—summary; as, from the character of the judges and executioners, into whose hands the sinner has fallen, you would expect; sufficiently prankish too. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Her eyes laughed up at him through a dazzle of tears, and prankishly over her curving lips hovered a mischievous dimple. The Palace of Darkened Windows It was an unholy thought his better judgment rejected—unless driven to it—yet some prankish element in his roused recklessness would not have deplored the necessity. The Fortieth Door It was not so prankish as it had been the night before, when it accepted the sheepman's broad-gauge hospitality and made merry till the sun winked from behind the mountains. Judith of the Plains I felt like a boy; a wild, prankish sensation of freedom possessed me. Strange Visitors Imperceptibly, too, the lanky, prankish years were folding back like petals, revealing the first bloom of her, a suddenly cleared complexion and eyes that had newly learned to drop upon occasion. Every Soul Hath Its Song In the main, this harper thought the man now buffeting France a just king, and he had heard, when the crown was laid aside, Sire Henry was sufficiently jovial, and even prankish. Chivalry His limbs were stiff and sore; his face was drenched by the fine rain that had searched him out with prankish glee. The Man from Brodney's It is with such frail instruments that prankish fate delights to work, and, although he never suspected it, the luxury of yielding to that sudden gust of passion cost Folsom dear. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Her fancies were so quaint—her ways so full of prankish mysteries! Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley — Volume 10 It was as though nature, in prankish mood, had given a cabbage the color and texture of a rose, with none of its fragile reticence and grace. One Basket Singing in his small high voice and dragging his feet in long strides after him, as if a prankish spirit oozed out from his heels, he strayed off through the tall grass. Old Indian Legends A prankish mood came upon her now which she couldn't resist. The Indian Lily and Other Stories It is about the Taylor pup And of his mistress eke And of the prankish time they had That I am fain to speak. Songs and Other Verse She bought a Sunday paper, letting the prankish gale around Times Square scurry the bulk of it through the streets while she stood in the shelter of the news stand, unfolding the Furnished Room section. Star-Dust The light snow, barely covering the ground, flashed in the sun, and the hunters, practically impervious to the slight cold, were almost prankish in their demeanor. The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man At that somehow, I both lost my temper and felt prankish. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire That was all, but Peggy knew that it would serve its prankish purpose. The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise At fairs she used to be more prankish than usual. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils In the Crucifixion play Herod is a prankish kind of tyrant who leaves the stage to rant among the audience; so that to "out-herod Herod" became a common proverb. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World At school, he "excelled only in spelling"; outside of school he was the prototype of his own Huckleberry Finn, mischievous and prankish, playing truant whenever the opportunity afforded. Mark Twain She was myself in miniature, and moreover the most witching, prankish, peppery elf that was ever made. At Last My word for it, these are wilful and prankish girls. Patty's Butterfly Days He was weirdly prankish; serious happenings reacted strangely upon him. The Auction Block The same distortion occurs in a second metope of this same temple, representing Heracles carrying off two prankish dwarfs who had tried to annoy him, and is in fact common in early Greek work. A History of Greek Art What he'd have done was never known, for the whole room-full of prankish, loud-voiced, roistering men was suddenly struck dumb by the unwonted sound of a lady's voice out in the darkness. Down the Mother Lode A sudden, prankish humour of Don Sabas, impelling him to the deed, spiced the grave affairs of state with a whiff of agreeable playfulness. Cabbages and Kings The wind, with a prankish flurry, flapped the flying newspaper against the face of the skittish bay. Whirligigs |
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