How To Use Vulpine In A Sentence
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All traces of courtly refinement and laconic humour had vanished; he was now callous and vulpine, the renegade spirit of the hoodlum streets returning to his lost playground.
Ballardian » Simon O’Carrigan’s The Drowned World
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Keepers haven't seen any vulpine intruders for several months in the 67-acre enclosure, but the penguins continue to be kept under lock and key for their own safety.
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Riding on a black horse, and glittering with black enamelled armour as well, the brother was more than a little vulpine.
A TIME OF WAR
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Starring the brusque and vulpine Vladimir Mashkov, Tycoon is an engaging product of the wild-and-crazy school of Eastern European filmmaking.
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The general public probably only vaguely recalls him as an edgy, vulpine presence in such 1960s fare as The Dirty Dozen and Rosemary's Baby.
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The case for banning fox hunting - vulpine anxiety, human emotions that are unattractive - is breathtakingly slight.
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And when he later threatens the recalcitrant Goneril that her sister will "with her nails flay thy wolfish visage", he brandishes his own vulpine claw in her face.
King Lear – review
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The camera often lingers on Penn's face, vulpine in its haughty, unspoken anger and canine in its chronic defeat.
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He noticed Lord Faustus, especially, laughing at him with a vulpine grin.
WATER BOOK TWO: REUNION
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And when he later threatens the recalcitrant Goneril that her sister will "with her nails flay thy wolfish visage", he brandishes his own vulpine claw in her face.
King Lear – review
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The baseball cap with the brim turned to the popular position, the slit-eyed glance, the vulpine lope - weak and comical creatures.
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From his high forehead and shining, golden eyes to the long, glossy brush of his tail, his bearing and demeanor spoke of vulpine royalty.
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The vulpine Evtushenko, although an accomplished technician and a past mistress of Lock's supercharged style, is never an autonomous being, but is always manipulated, shaped and turned by men.
La La La Human Steps – review
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When she opened her eyes she found the vulpine face of Evandar's brother leaning close to hers.
A TIME OF WAR
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Shane Warne's return to the Sky box has allowed British viewers a first sighting of his vulpine new look, sparking more rumours of a face lift.
The Nursery End
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Lyons père was a young lawyer writing a weekly column for the Sunday English-language page of the Yiddish Forward when he won a Post contest to find a challenger to Walter Winchell, the vulpine king of newspaper gossip.
Before Gossip Was Gawkerfied
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I remember that as we said good-by there was that in her smile that recalled the vulpine complacency of Mona Lisa, the Wise.
“It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”
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He cannot believe that no one has approached him about being Basil Brush's straight man when the vulpine glove puppet resurfaces on TV next year.
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Resolutely unglamorous, Chadsey's young men, no hunks, preen and pose, sometimes grotesquely transformed by superimpositions that seem to be materialized projections of their fantasies, like the vulpine shadow in "Portrait (Pink Beak)," the black mud luchador mask (or terrorist balaclava) in "Blackface Rod," the dangling penis in the standing/spread-eagled protagonist of "Marines," or the extra sets of arms in the androgynous "Red Head (Shift).
ArtScene: This Month's Top Exhibitions in the Western United States
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We'd have heard if people were being savaged by vulpine man-eaters.
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But, while she stares straight ahead - aloof, resigned - he diverts his gaze momentarily from the road to engage us with a look of such vulpine knowingness that we begin to wonder just what exactly he has in mind.
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vulpine cunning
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If he spent his time in splenetic atrabiliar reflections on his own misery, his ill usage by Nature, Fortune and other Foxes, and so forth; and had not courage, promptitude, practicality, and other suitable vulpine gifts and graces, he would catch no geese.
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
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I nodded at recollection of the vulpine-face superintendent of the Sierra Mills.
Chapter 19: Transformation
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Riding on a black horse, and glittering with black enamelled armour as well, the brother was more than a little vulpine.
A TIME OF WAR
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Having an interest in all things vulpine, I was immediately hooked, and deserted Mr Waley's book of translations in favour of this new find.
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I remember that as we said good-bye, there was that in her smile that recalled the vulpine complacency of Mona Lisa, the
THE HUSSY
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His vulpine and aggressive disposition is responsible for much of the film's finest moments.
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As a card-carrying Shakespearean, I have called attention to the tiny detail of the temple-haunting martlet, but specialized knowledge is hardly required: in Goold's Macbeth we quickly sense the atmosphere of Stalinist Russia, with its pervasive paranoia, its inner circles of nervous, vulpine flatterers, its interrogation chambers and extorted confessions, its public rituals of adulation braided together with opportunism, fear, and hatred.
In the Night Kitchen
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Gwena, the dark girl, flashed dazzling white teeth in a vulpine grin, plucked a gittern from somewhere behind her, and began.
Fiddler Fair
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Round in a circle the widening fissure raced, ringing Lord Vulpine and all his men, penning them inside a vast ditch.
A TIME OF WAR
