How To Use Tricksy In A Sentence
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Though one may quibble at some of O'Brien's choices in this free adaptation, she gives force and clarity to a notoriously corrupt text and rescues the ending from tricksy bathos.
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The second paper was again a little tricksy in places, but overall nicer than the first one.
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But Gray is a tricksy fellow and might be fibbing.
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On the other hand, Jaki is clearly present in the rhythms which are straightforward but tricksy, deliberate but playful.
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It also comes with a set of tricksy windscreen wipers.
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Throughout the review Enright makes Vladimir Nabokov's works out to be meaningless, merely esthetic, and "tricksy," yet, at the same time, immoral.
Nabokov
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Out went the tacky, big-budget stage sets and tricksy technology and in came rock 'n' roll again.
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Bawer is quite plainly a talented writer, but he is also tricksy, and he has a tendency to overload what are often perfectly valid points with debatable stylistic flourishes.
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And even when we could almost imagine we're listening to some kind of tricksy neo-soul, as in 'Lock It', or an obscure offshoot of electro, as in 'Strange Crowd', there's the vocals.
The Line Of Best Fit
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It is also a thing of beauty, with typography that's clever without being tricksy, saliva-inducing photography and cute little naif drawings.
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Luka, confronted by his father's ghostly double – the tricksy, hard-to-pin-down Nobodaddy – embarks on a daredevil mission to the World of Magic, determined to return with the Fire of Life itself and thereby reinvigorate his father.
Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie - review
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And do not try anything tricksy if you don't need to.
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But this is less a tricksy sci-fi love story than heartstring-tugging mush, with hilariously flawed internal logic.
The Sun
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The building is massively experimental, clever-clever, tricksy, fussy, risky - and I bet it dates quickly and badly.
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Partly it is through a fear of actually engaging with the tricksy arguments themselves: it is altogether easier to attack the individual - to take out the man, rather than the ball, as it were.
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I'd rather thought this might happen, because one or two of the words were tricksy, to say the least.
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Then again, it might just be a tricksy way of showing-off a bit.
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It's kind of tricksy to detect and could be utilized in the Farmville market to purchase some really special items.
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Sure, the profile questions were laboured and tricksy, but they either gave way to genuine honesty or exposed pretension; you could just tell when a person was straining to be winsome.
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The Tory leader said the Chancellor had used "tricksy" methods to cut pensioners 'income in this week's Budget, without making it clear in his statement to MPs.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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I cannot discern anything tricksy in his demeanour, I really do believe that he is sincere.
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Flashbacks, dream sequences and supernatural intervention merge into a miasma of disjointed, tricksy effects.
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The specialty of Allegri was "putti" -- tumbling, tumultuous, tricksy putti.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists
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Rice is a tricksy ingredient and, just like risotto, certain rules must be observed to achieve paella nirvana.
How to cook the perfect paella
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Now there's a tricksy little topic not likely to raise many smiles should it happen to pop up in conversation.
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Someone tricksy has been taking pictures of the car he drives in the forthcoming movie.
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However, Carême, the "king of chefs, and chef of kings" thanks Wikipedia, piques my interest with a particularly tricksy method, in which the egg yolks and water are heated gently until thickened, and "pats of whole butter" are then whisked in to emulsify the butterfat and thin the cooked eggs.
How to make perfect hollandaise sauce
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His new film is similarly tricksy: in the voiceover, it spins a fictional catastrophe that recalls Cyprus' conflicted past over honeyed footage of blue seas, rustic beehives and golden fields that wouldn't look out of place on a posh holiday programme.
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On the other hand, Jaki is clearly present in the rhythms which are straightforward but tricksy, deliberate but playful.
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The tricksy plots of Babel and 21 Grams felt more O. Henry than oh so profound to me.
Michael Giltz: Cannes 2010 Day Six and Seven: Biutiful is Beautiful and Jia is Beautifuler
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It is also a thing of beauty, with typography that's clever without being tricksy, saliva-inducing photography and cute little naif drawings.
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Of two works by David Parsons, Shining Star is a be-happy piece for dancers in angelic white, against tricksy banks of lights.
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Also, a pair of tricksy pop-out cupholders hide behind a flimsy bit of plastic on the passenger side.
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Personally, I find that the sensationalist presentation, tricksy camera work and scary music gets in the way of any profound analysis.
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Our traditional institutions of learning are under threat from these nasty, tricksy cheats.
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But viewers will at first be led to believe that the friar is a tricksy, brooding character with more on his mind than simply helping the battle against the Sheriff of Nottingham.
BBC social engineering: BBC's black, high-kicking Friar Tuck annoys historians
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Since I can't get you on any 'tricksy' questions about a certain wolf or female psy - how about a question about lifespan?
Q & A
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It is immensely clever, perhaps overly tricksy for some tastes and, most importantly, extraordinarily brilliant.
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The blues that ensue could seem tricksy, but don't.
Times, Sunday Times
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The tricksy plots of Babel and 21 Grams felt more O. Henry than oh so profound to me.
Michael Giltz: Cannes 2010 Day Six and Seven: Biutiful is Beautiful and Jia is Beautifuler
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It's all well-played by the Northern Sinfonia under James Sinclair, and the music is sprightly and often engaging, but a lot of it is tricksy stuff, full of little efforts at musical humour or attention grabbing.
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They think up tricksy names, they might even hire an expensive designer to do them a label, and when it comes to the end, their wine is made in the same winery as all their rivals' wines.
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The Maltings' interior design is obviously not to the judge's taste: it is said to be ‘entirely contrived, with a tricksy decor strong on salvaged somewhat quirky junk’.
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It's pretty middling stuff, with a tricksy mannerism of freeze-framing the action at the end of a scene, which makes it look like a dodgy DVD pressing.
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You don't need it to be tricksy or expressive of modern design—it just needs to tell the time.
The Rebirth of a Classic
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Strachan, on the other hand, was regarded as tricksy enough to outmanoeuvre his dour Aberdeen and Manchester United manager.
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I found a different route, using tricksy short-cuts, through Bradford, which I'd known since childhood.
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Considerable sense of humour in him; a very pretty little laugh, sincere and cordial always; many tricksy turns of witty insight, of intellect, of phrase; countenance, tone and eyes well seconding; his voice, in the finale of it, had a kind of musical warble ( 'chirl' we vernacularly called it) which reminded one of singing-birds.
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle