Sentences with word «roguish»

But..., but he is so cute snug in his little Stephenson box, his warm furry body wrapped lovingly around the thermometer bulb... the roguish upward curve to his little whiskers!

Everyone who knows Bond knows Ian Fleming is the British former naval intelligence officer who wrote the 14 novels that gave rise to the roguish spy.

Intimate in scale and humorous in subject — the roguish soldier has apparently just bested a companion in a game of cards — it possesses a high degree of refinement, particularly in the soldier's aubergine costume and the gold fringe of a nearby cloak.

Photographers like Larry Clark, who got his start documenting bands of roguish teenage surfers and skateboarders (often during moments of reckless violence and illegal drug use) and went on to direct Kids, exposed the grittier elements of youth culture, prompting uncomfortable conversations about a rising generation that disregarded prevailing societal norms.

«The space is crowded with jostling, roguish forms and blizzards of words» Adrian Searle, The Guardian

The roguish Ringabel — no, not the guy from The Wire — fulfills three JRPG tropes in one as a womanising amnesiac who provides comedic relief, but he's a necessary foil to the doom - tinged backstory.

Can its retro appeal and roguish charm also survive the transition?

They are all other things as well, such as roguish scoundrel, surprisingly good actor, and bad - ass sniper.

The story of roguish adventurer turned people's champion isn't wholly original or always well told - Crystal Bearers feels like it lost a lot of content getting out the door - but there's a sweet charm that permeates the whole game and its unusual take on steampunk fantasy is easy on the eyes despite the Wii's graphical deficiencies.

Shawn will supplement his Roguish skills with clever use of traps and other items.

But awesome adventurer traits aside, the fact that he managed to shape Nathan Drake from a roguish little pickpocket to a good - hearted treasure hunter - and that he's always willing to come back out of retirement to help him out - says it all.

PS4 players will likely start feeling a bit roguish during the end of April, as Naughty Dog plans to release Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (PS4) on April 26th.

Perhaps a roguish archer, thieving everything that isn't bolted down or being watched by the beady eyed guards?

Zavala, the steadfast and serious Titan, has a more measured, steady flow, while Cayde - 6, the witty, roguish Hunter, has a more jittery, energetic flow that buts into Zavala's verses.

From OMW to YAS QWEEN and so many things in between, these new stickers will add some cute and roguish flair to any exchange.

It almost seems like BioWare tried to imbue Ryder with the more roguish and care - free personality and mannerisms of Nathan Drake from the earlier Uncharted games.

Or hey, maybe I should put the «role play» in «role playing game» and succumb to the roguish (literally) Zevran's advances?

The roguish face is marvelously wrinkled, giving the dog an expression of great wisdom or great sorrow.

Often enhanced by a white mask, the facial expression is friendly, alert, and even roguish.

In Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel makes veiled references to Thomas Cromwell's roguish past before he comes to King Henry's court.

Better still, she failed to remember that she should probably be chastising Harriet for dancing with the roguish viscount in the first place.

Not CompÂre Lapin, the roguish rabbit nemesis of CompÂre Bouki, featured in Lapin Plays Possum, a collection of three hilarious folk tales adapted by Sharon Arms Doucet.

She'll have no part of his roguish ways, even if he is the heart's...

Sections include advice concerning «The Lamentable Preponderance of Plain Women»; «The Language of Hair»; «If Your Charms Are Limited»; «Hints Towards Recognizing a Harlot»; and «On Roguish Behavior.»

Similar to the new Porsche 911, also unveiled at Frankfurt, then... The new car makes big steps forward in comfort, technology and safety equipment, says Fiat, though without giving up its «roguish and ready - for - anything soul».

The C63 is even more fun on the road, where the roguish exhaust, on - demand thrust, and capable chassis make it an attraction whether it's sitting at a stoplight, painting black stripes in a straight line, or tearing through a corner.

However, also thrown into the mix is Lytton's roguish nephew, charmingly played by Robert Wagner, who wants a slice of the action and decides he wants to seduce Clouseau's wife as well.

Ehrenreich in particular is enduringly watchable: He nails Ford's cocky gait, his roguish eye - twinkle, his puffed - cheeked finger - pointing, and while the performance may initially come across as a highly skilled bit of mimicry, by the film's end he's managed to give the role a satisfying new spin.

Jeff Bridges must be commended for his fresh interpretation of the roguish Rooster Cogburn as an endearing contradiction of machismo and vulnerability which actually enables you to forget about John Wayne after the film's first five minutes or so.

The positioning of this dryly competent woman as the film's protagonist, compared to the roguish silliness of Kurt Russell's R.J. MacReady, acts as yet another sign that we're verging into full - on horror territory.

Put another way, watch it as a sequel to «The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Esssex,» in which Elizabeth I (now played by actress Flora Robson) enlists the aid of privateer Geoffrey Thorpe (a roguish, spittin» image of Essex) to protect England against a bullying Spanish diplomat (a conniving, spittin» image of Prince John, from «The Adventures of Robin Hood»).

Its director, George Roy Hill, later made The Sting (1973), which had a roguish charm that cheerily conned its audiences.

It's also not, unlike most other Robin Hood films, a fun, spirited swashbuckler, as Robin is more of a noble brawler rather than a roguish, playful thorn.

With choral hosannas a» blowing, Debney sinks in marvelous orchestral reveals, smashing percussive dastardliness and roguish romance.

Much of that charm belongs to Tom Cruise, digging into a role perfectly suited to that roguish charisma he can deliver on autopilot.

Cavill displays real leading man qualities as the roguish, James Bond - like spy; Hammer is perfectly cast as the volatile enforcer; and Vikander holds her own as the much - needed female component of the group, and looks good doing it dressed in an array of «60s mod fashion.

Annette Bening is as infallible as ever and plays the perfect foil to Pacino's roguish guff with understated sophistication and razor - sharp wit, while Christopher Plummer as Danny's corrosive manager, is failed too often by misplaced vulgar dialogue, which is so painfully at odds with his character's intent at times, that when he does express emotional humility, it appears alienating and disingenuous.

Complications ensue when the roguish, disgraced genetically - engineered space cop Caine Wise (Tatum) saves Jupiter and continues to spirit her away from space calamity after space calamity, from nasty probing grey aliens to bounty hunters to a politically motivated but dangerous marriage to one of the Abrasax children (Douglas Booth).

At Saturday's Solo press conference, the film's screenwriters, Lawrence and Jonathan Kasdan, got fans even more excited, describing their love for the roguish smuggler Harrison Ford first introduced fans to in Star Wars: A New Hope, and how they translated his characteristics to Han Solo's origin story starring Alden Ehrenreich.

The film stars Johnny Depp as the roguish Charlie Mortdecai, an art dealer who finds himself in a race to recover a stole painting rumored to contain the code to a lost bank account filled with Nazi gold.

His best friend, the roguish British expatriate Richard (Pierce Brosnan), serves as the movie's narrator and not disinterested observer.

Given that the two stars are Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly, the fan reaction to Ant - Man «s comic minor characters like Michael Peña's Luis, and Scott Lang's past as a roguish thief, a romantic comedy does feel like a smart way to go with this material.

by Ian Pugh Already something of a dinosaur in a season that saw Indiana Jones explode onto the cinematic landscape, For Your Eyes Only was the first 007 film that found Roger Moore looking too old to be a roguish, oversexed secret agent.

The star is surrounded by a corking cast, which includes James Spader as a roguish lobbyist doing the president's dirty work in buying votes, David Strathairn as secretary of state William H Seward (one of that team of rivals) and Jared Harris as Ulysses S Grant; Tommy Lee Jones (pictured below) is a typically cantankerous hoot as Thaddeus Stevens, the radical abolitionist who sacrifices his ambitions for equality to Lincoln's more pragmatic recognition that «freedom comes first».

McConaughey wears his roguish role as if it were bespoke; it's a treat watching his Haller slither through backroom deals and elevator - ride negotiations.

An explosive James McAvoy does a jumped - up version of Denis Leary's roguish «Rescue Me» character in «Filth,» a cop caper that more than lives up to its name.

Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and his loyal cadre of otherwise gifted X-Men, including Wolverine (Hugh Jackman, charmingly roguish) and Storm (Halle Berry, finally given a decent hairstyle), are perhaps dismayed by the introduction of this gene suppressant, but committed to a policy of personal choice and nonviolence.

Regrettably, the aforementioned Anthony Mackie is underused as the man who becomes the Falcon, winged superhero in the making, but his easy, roguish charm is a natural fit with Evan's seemingly antiquated earnestness.

Among those Solo meets on the boss's crew are Chewbacca (performed by Joonas Suotamo) and the roguish Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover).

The DreamWorks comedy, based on Dav Pilkey's extremely popularized children's book series, marvelously boasts crisp and energizing CG animation to go along with a roguish tale of grade school pranksters as they challenge the patience of the bothersome authority figures that oversee their academic misery.