impishness

The impishness touched his eyes, and she felt like melting.

Second, impishness is not a characteristic often attributed to the Governor.

I assured them that he didn't get far, for we both knew well his impishness.

For a moment he looked serious, with no trace of impishness on his creased old face.

But small boys can be a handful and little Michael is the epitome of impishness.

He is always full of energy and impishness.

But he has a gleaming impishness of his own."

The smile grew into impishness, and Julian returned it.

Still, the score has lyrical grace, subtle touches and impishness.

Thus he had put aside his usual impishness and turned to his work in earnest.

Friends described Blackburn as having "an impishness his friends came to expect."

"I give you three chances to say what they are," he challenged, with a glee that approached impishness.

The evening still needs a bit of pruning, and it sometimes strains in its bad-boy impishness.

There is little evidence of impishness now.

The production can occasionally strain in its bad-boy impishness.

His impishness on some issues drew laughter where the Pope might have prompted howls of protest.

But behind the impishness, a serious side seeks to instruct as well as to entertain.

He could never resist the impishness of his plain carrot-headed but beloved youngest daughter.

Vivian's had an impishness to it, as if she had fallen asleep in a particularly good mood.

I do miss the impishness of them, but at least there is a little of that in "Solo Flight."

The impishness slid from her face, and melancholy tugged down the corners of her mouth.

She saw that his expression had altered slightly, impishness and something darker shining at her out of his eyes.

They told stories about his impishness, his artfulness, his liberal fervor.

The director, a compact, white-haired man whose demeanor combines gravity with a certain impishness, was not just being flip.