tricksiness

I am not sure that formal tricksiness is particularly useful.

Oh, its only Tory tricksiness that needs to be exposed.

That should avoid political tricksiness and give voters an honest reading of the fairness of each budget.

He characterizes its convoluted narrative technique as "postmodern tricksiness".

Ain't no gentleness in Tiger stories, no tricksiness, and no peace."

All the tricksiness.

In fact it is formal restiveness, even tricksiness, that has distinguished much of the literary fiction of the past couple of decades.

The technical tricksiness - black and white smudged with colour, back projections and spinning symbolism - does slip into certain film-school idiom, turgid and clever-clever.

Hmmm...a clarion call to end government's budget tricksiness...a call oddly absent during Labour's 13 years in spin-doctored power.

This compilation, mostly recorded recently, despite an inevitably dated feel, holds all the usual advantages and disadvantages of the genre: a mild manner, a certain tricksiness, a breezy cool, a little too chilled.

When they got to the bit about the Mouser's tricksiness, Fafhrd muttered, "I always suspected you got at her, you dog," and he replied, "Cheer up, at least she recognizes your moral superiority."

The formal tricksiness of Atonement, something that has perplexed or irritated many of its readers, can be seen, Wood suggests, as simultaneously prosecuting and defending fiction-making: perhaps ... we don't really want to "confront the fictionality of fiction"

Fafhrd had been very glad to be parted from the Mouser and from his vanities and tricksiness and chatter when Hasjarl's agent had contacted him in Lankhmar, promising large pay in return for Fafhrd's instant, secret, and solitary coming.

Its only other excursion into stylistic tricksiness is the inclusion of a quantity of imaginary newspaper reports and book reviews, apparently intended to emphasise that journalists and politicians are no match for proper writers when it comes to using words as instruments of truth and beauty.

If the hour and 25 minutes sometimes drags through moments that are spun out for too long, and through some unnecessary tricksiness with the screens, that's because it seems Lepage hasn't yet quite found what he wants Miles Davis and Jean Cocteau to reveal to him.