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"light-fingered" Definitions
  1. likely to steal things
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33 Sentences With "light fingered"

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Aladdin, a light-fingered scamp, befriends Jasmine, the sultan's daughter, in the bazaar.
I don't mean the light-fingered thieves who try to grab your wallet.
His own party has welcomed light-fingered defectors from the PDP into its ranks.
Shoplifting focuses on the different items that are vulnerable to a light fingered thief.
Here, his dialecticians are Terry (Alexander Skarsgard) and Bob (Michael Peña), light-fingered Albuquerque detectives.
I'm not even mad about the light-fingered drum programming, and I usually hate drum machines.
The list of light-fingered leaders who feature in "The Despot's Guide to Wealth Management" is long.
Mr. Stuart and his band, the Fabulous Superlatives, jam their way through it with light-fingered aplomb.
Her sister had stories about Thelma, about her light-fingered ways that followed her from childhood into adulthood.
Yamaha's jittery, sort of nervous, light-fingered funk is a perfect match for Joe Mount's sleek perfecto-pop.
As one might assume given Wino's track record, this new track is classic Obsessed—low-slung grooves, light-fingered riffs, and all.
In Brazil the faithful seem tolerant of pastors who are light-fingered with their tithes; many see giving as a virtuous act, regardless of the money's ultimate destination.
Later in life, I began to grasp the dangerous playfulness of Czech, the wit and charm it inspires in the light-fingered, and the boorishness it draws from the ham-fisted.
But when Miss Nightingale discovers that the boy is a furtive thief, light-fingered and deft, making away each week with another small treasure, the whole of her history, and its loyalties and loves, flies apart.
The famous "exit pursued by a bear" scene serves as the hinge between the two theatrical worlds, and we now spend an hour or so with the requisite rubes, light-fingered scalawags, misallied lovers and sheepshearing hoydens.
" The critic Jon Pareles wrote of "Father of the Bride" in The New York Times: "It's full of light-fingered guitars, perky tempos, winsome vocals and sunny, major-key choruses laced with poppy la-las and ooh-oohs.
In fact LA duo Woolf and the Wondershow specialize in a kind of zingy pop laden with strings and synths, skippy beats and soaring toplines, the occasional harpsichord and a whistle line ("Talking to the Mirror"—about a light fingered lady).
Yet with Wilder, as sensitive in assembling words as he was adroit in delivering them, you were always aware of a grounded human being behind the masks, releasing his characters' anxieties and desires with the light-fingered dexterity of a safe cracker -- or, perhaps more appropriately, a bomb-squad veteran.
She said nothing, either, and so unaffected was the boy himself by what was happening, so unperturbed by his own behavior, that she began to wonder if she could be mistaken, if it could be one of her less attractive pupils who was light-fingered, or even if she had only just noticed what might have been taken from her over a period of time.
But at the same time, Boris leads three gangsters known as the "Light Fingered Five Minus Two" with a plan to rob the Frostbite Falls Bank, so it's up to Rocky and Bullwinkle to foil Boris' crime and get back the money.
Eccentric widow Lady Buckering lives in splendour in Hampstead, but behind the scenes is struggling with poverty and bringing up four demanding daughters, one of whom is about to have a baby. Also of concern is the very nervous father-to-be and how exactly to deal with her light- fingered butler.
Sean, a runner for a drug gang, has checked into room 303 at the seedy, rundown Heaven Hotel in Bangkok, to await arrival of a package of heroin. Another guest is Rosa, psychologist who is researching slum children, on the floor below (room 202). In the next room, 203, is Lita, a female assassin who is waiting to intercept the package Sean is waiting for. Tying them all together, is the 13-year-old bellboy, Wit, a streetwise, light-fingered kid.
The album was reviewed by Richard S. Ginell at Allmusic who described it as an "amiable collection of mostly vintage standards" that Previn, Brown and Lowe "probably know in their sleep. Previn is as fluid, witty and melodically inventive as ever in his bop-derived, light-fingered manner, with occasional side trips into stride and Brubeck-like chordal perorations...The lack of a drummer becomes an asset in this golden mellow hall; a drum kit would have upset the acoustical balance".
Tanis had met Flint years earlier when the dwarf had come to Qualinost to craft items for Solostaran and the two had developed a friendship. Tanis met Tasslehoff Burrfoot (Tas) when the light-fingered kender tried to steal one of Flint's bracelets. Tanis kept Flint from killing Tas and soon Tas was an inseparable companion. Tanis met Kitiara when he believed he was going to her rescue as she fought a band of hobgoblins, only to find she was toying with her assailants.
Jules Massenet portrayed by Jules Clément Chaplain (1839-1909) Alan Blyth reviewed the album on LP in Gramophone in July 1979. The only negative thing that he could find to say about Frederica von Stade's performance of the opera's title role was that she was a mezzo singing music conceived for a soprano. She was "utterly delightful in her portrayal of vulnerability, in her attention to Massenet's many musical injunctions and her whole-hearted involvement in the part". She was entirely at home in Massenet's "enchanting, light-fingered" style, and expressed every chapter of Cendrillon's story, both sorrowful and joyous, with equal eloquence.
Here he resurrects an alternative strategy that Wayne Shorter proposed in albums like Atlantis and High Life: tightly knit, complex charts for small ensembles that are flexible enough to couch striking personal statements but catchy enough to comfort audiences with an identifiable thread. Irving writes close parallels for his three capable horn players and directs the rhythm section's approach, leaving openings for his deft, light-fingered pianism. “Poznan Dream’” evokes an airy wistfulness that recurs later in the ballad “Octobre”. Scott Hesse's guitar skitters through the saxophones on “Generations” and is generously featured on “Maat.” “Energy,” suggestive of McCoy Tyner, packs punches with Laurence d’Estival Irving's fervent saxophone wail.
Critical reception for Ancient Light was primarily positive, with a reviewer for UK newspaper The Independent calling it a "luminous, breathtaking work." Critics for The Guardian also reviewed Ancient Light, with Tim Adams praising Banville's themes and "cleverness", while Alex Clark praised the dual narrative as "disorienting". UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph gave the book three out of five stars, writing that it is "notably, though for the most part seamlessly, light-fingered – strings of Yeses from Ulysses, bits of Eliot, a hazel wood from Yeats, a lovely quote from Leopardi". The Harvard Crimson, stated that '[t]he major weakness of "Ancient Light," however, lies is not in its moments of gimmickry but in its vagueness'.
In this way, adam was bodily and spiritually male and female. God later decides that "it is not good for adam to be alone", and creates the separate beings, Adam and Eve. This promotes the idea of two people joining together to achieve a union of the two separate spirits. The early rabbinic literature contains also the traditions which portray Eve in a less positive manner. According to Genesis Rabbah 18:4 Adam quickly realizes that Eve is destined to engage in constant quarrels with him. The first woman also becomes the object of accusations ascribed to Rabbi Joshua of Siknin, according to whom Eve, despite the divine efforts, turned out to be “swelled- headed, coquette, eavesdropper, gossip, prone to jealousy, light-fingered and gadabout” (ibid. 18:2).
He stated that it was good enough for his father, his grandfather and his great-grandfather. This implies that cat burglary and safecracking were a family business and probably explains where he got his skills. In the same episode it is revealed Parker knew a fellow burglar nicknamed "light- fingered Fred" when he was in prison and he further claimed that Fred was the only one who could possibly rival him in the skills of his criminal expertise. It is revealed in the episode "Danger at Ocean Deep" that Parker has an upper- class connoisseur-like taste for fine beverages as he manages to pilfer a bottle of vintage 1998 champagne, right under Penelope's nose no less, and swap it with pure tonic water without her knowing anything.
'Taint leaving old England we cares about, 'Taint cos we mis-spells what we knows, But because all we light-fingered gentry Hops around with a log on our toes. These seven long years I've been serving nowsometimes "For seven long years I'll be staying here…" And seven long more have to staysometimes "For seven long years and a day…" All for bashing a bloke down our alleysometimes "Just for meeting a bloke…" And taking his ticker away. Oh, had I the wings of a turtle-dove, I'd soar on my pinions so high, Straight backalso "Slap bang…" to the arms of my Polly love, And in her sweet presence I'd die. Now all my young Dookies and Duchesses, Take warning from what I've to say: Mind all is your own as you toucheses Or you'll find us in Botany Bay.
The first woman also becomes the object of accusations ascribed to Rabbi Joshua of Siknin, according to whom Eve, despite the divine efforts, turned out to be "swelled-headed, coquette, eavesdropper, gossip, prone to jealousy, light-fingered and gadabout" (Genesis Rabbah 18:2). A similar set of charges appears in Genesis Rabbah 17:8, according to which Eve's creation from Adam's rib rather than from the earth makes her inferior to Adam and never satisfied with anything. # Third, and despite the terseness of the biblical text in this regard, the erotic iniquities attributed to Eve constitute a separate category of her shortcomings. Told in Genesis 3:16 that "your desire shall be for your husband", she is accused by the Rabbis of having an overdeveloped sexual drive (Genesis Rabhah 20:7) and constantly enticing Adam (Genesis Rabbab 23:5).
Mullooly served in the East Cape War, and was a guard on the Chatham Islands when Te Kooti and his group escaped. In 1873 he opened the Sea View Hotel at Tolaga Bay, providing his guests with simple, adequate accommodation. One morning a guest complained that his boots were not cleaned, although he left them outside his bedroom door. Mullooly could hardly believe that anyone would have taken the risk of losing his footgear. “You are very lucky,” he told him, “that you found them there in the morning!” What he had in mind was that some of his patrons were noted for their light-fingered habits. Mullooly was described as “a little man who revelled in litigation, but was apt to grasp at the shadow and lose the substance.” His guests could depend on being regaled with his version of his latest battle in the courts.
Although the five movements are laid out separately in the score, Busoni stated that the concerto should be played as a continuous whole, without breaks. ::Introductio: Andante sostenuto ::Prima pars: Andante, quasi adagio ::Altera pars: Sommessamente ::Ultima pars: a tempo The first movement, marked "Prologo e introito" is a little over fifteen minutes long on average, and is a broad Allegro movement which features a clangorous piano part. The second movement, a kind of Scherzo, is mostly a light-fingered affair for the piano that makes use of "Italianate" rhythms and melodic material, even if the melodies are more evocative of Italian popular music than actual quotations from indigenous Italian folk music. The third and longest movement is the "Pezzo serioso", a massive meditation and exploration in four parts in the key of D flat major which has a central climax that is once again pianistically challenging and brilliantly scored for both the piano and the orchestra.

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