"How about some adventure?," I ask, striking a rather dashing pose of outdoorsy
roguishness.
Exploding with energy and lovable
roguishness, the quirky rockers performed a 20-piece set that turned into one long, loud, bawdy singalong.
It is really astonishing how, to a much greater extent than Sao Paulo, Rio conserves within its vibrant
roguishness as an international city a sort of ruralism and a static traditional character.
The Spencer Tracey vehicle is loosely based on James Michael Curley, who parlayed his man-of-the-people
roguishness into a near-lifetime tenure as mayor of Boston, defying the decades of institutional prejudice against the Irish.
Such people go over there [to the Lands of Idolatry]; and in order to cover up their infamy and
roguishness [they] tell [the Inquisition (?)] a thousand lies and falsehoods against noble and virtuous persons whom they are not even worthy to serve, and from whom they [the rogues] have received many benefits [in the Jewish Diaspora].
French audiences can no doubt feel and share some of the emotions they portray--the adventurousness, the nervous
roguishness. It is doubtful, however, that French viewers, who come from a spiritual tradition divided between freethinking and mainstream Roman Catholicism, can digest the temptations and travails at work in independent, spontaneous, inspirational, charismatic, indirect-contact-with-God individuals operating outside any clerical hierarchy.
Like Jim, hypnotized by a tire-eater in Mexico City, the destroyed personalities in these stories are an alloy of naivete and
roguishness. You feel sorry for them, but they also scare you.
Perhaps secretly, we also rather admire that dash of
roguishness.
Doubtless, it was Don Segundo's earthy, "criollo
roguishness" (in the words of critic Giovanni Previtali) that appealed to Guiraldes who, as a teenager, would sit around and listen to him spin yams.
Directors and producers identify this
roguishness or evil in me and it's good because it keeps me in work."
As a secondary character, one of Angela's artistic set, Paulette dominates, even steals her scenes, as much because of her characteristic audacity as her thematic
roguishness. Just as her insistent sexuality tests gender boundaries, so do the ideological questions her representation poses raze her formal function.
THE finalists this year all looked squeaky clean and jolly nice, with a smattering of latent
roguishness, a mixed bag of ties, and one woman.
Certainly even whatever he imitates he makes worse; for with him
roguishness is not urbane but malicious, rusticity is not simple but silly, facetiousness not playful but ridiculous, and love not joyful but licentious.
