Was Wright more roguish hustler, conniving swindler or a mix of both?
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A roguish hero races an evil organization to collect a supernatural treasure.
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That philosophy lost its roguish charm when democracy itself was up for grabs.
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While I wasn't aware what sex was, I knew that his roguish appeal was exciting.
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With this design, Andross looked more like a haunted doll than a roguish animal space pilot.
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He is the ultimate myth of the romantic hero: a roguish exterior encasing a kind heart.
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I loved these stories the most, imagining Irit as a hyperactive child or a roguish teen.
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CBS emphasized the character's roguish side when it marketed the show in the summer of 2016.
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Ms. Farmiga is warmly appealing, and Mr. Plummer drizzles a welcome acidity over Jack's roguish shtick.
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Remember that time your roguish Tinder date really wanted to show you his collection of urine jars?
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Howard himself confirmed the news in a tweeted photo of himself with a downright roguish-looking Bettany.
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This roguish piece of reporting demands that chefs denounce the bay leaf, and archly rejects their defenses.
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Alex happens to hate England's Prince Henry (a lovely stand-in for a roguish Prince Harry, duh).
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If the performance typecast him as a roguish megalomaniac, there was still no shortage of roles for Boothe.
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In the picture, Stoddard projects a roguish, matinée-idol aura, with slicked-down hair and a black mustache.
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Their roguish, free-spirited independence offered a fantasy of liberated masculinity that appealed to men and women alike.
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To stage his more lavish stunts, he depended on a series of well-heeled backers of roguish bent.
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But it perverts the dynamic of the film by making its central cop into a charming, roguish maverick.
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And Mr. Trump has a certain animal cunning and roguish charisma that make him a very effective campaigner.
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"Steve Trevor is roguish and a cynical realist who's seen an awful, brutish nature of modern civilization," Pine said.
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He's gone from roguish young lead, to weirdo in bad CGI movies, to swollen (if youngish-looking) lead again.
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CLSA describes the monkey's "endearing human-like qualities" but warns it can also be unpopular for its "roguish trickery".
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The current generation of Los Angeles rappers have undergone a similar evolution from dance-crazed boys to roguish men.
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Technology has ushered in a sharing economy that lowers wages, reduces payrolls and turns workers into roguish free agents.
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This roguish DC Comics character fights crime in Star City while rocking a dark bodysuit and his signature hood.
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The story can be hard to follow, but the roguish sense of play and the wild tonal shifts are thrilling.
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My Wingmen Barry: Dapper Actor Rick: Roguish Adventurer My Look: Balding Tablecloth This was going to be a long night.
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The company's irreverent brand and roguish design aesthetic let it get away with unpolished products that would never meet Apple's standards.
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Everything is played for a joke—much as I thought at the time that Assange was (over)playing his roguish persona.
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Fitting with the roguish spirit of her songs, Charli XCX's release schedule has never really lined up with other pop stars.
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Today he is 20 and his roguish charm is a marketable commodity, offering substantial rewards but also risks on a national stage.
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"War Dogs" stresses that David and Efraim are a long way from being the charmingly roguish Robin Hoods they think they are.
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Jon Hamm pops up to help, lending his roguish good looks and natural charm to the role of cooperating witness Bill Taylor.
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Mentors smoothly details how these four people influenced Naumann's intellectual, professional, and personal life profoundly — particularly Wood's roguish individuality and profound honesty.
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The best scenes, which are the talkiest and the least given over to plot, instead showcase Ms. Hutchinson's dry, roguish, gutsy voice.
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The British actor Stephen Fry is known as many things: a witty television presenter, a roguish Twitter personality and an outspoken atheist.
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Mr. Paul, who has more than 8.8 million subscribers to his YouTube channel, has cultivated a roguish public image in his videos.
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Just because you don't happen to be a roguish jockey with a charming Southern drawl doesn't mean you can't get lit like one.
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He is, in many ways, the last of his kind—the raffish, roguish, eccentric Brit who conquered worlds and created his own legacy.
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These sections push the story forward, laying the foundation for the existential divide that defines every superhero, even a putative roguish outlier like Deadpool.
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Michael Weatherly, who plays the roguish agent Tony DiNozzo on "NCIS," confirmed Tuesday night that he was leaving CBS's popular crime procedural after 13 seasons.
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The product, $129.99 Spectacles, rolled out with a colorful, retro-lite look and a sizzle reel of some roguish young people recording their skateboard tricks.
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The untitled Han Solo movie will follow the origin story of young Han Solo, the handsome, roguish space smuggler made famous by actor Harrison Ford.
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Everyone who knows Bond knows Ian Fleming is the British former naval intelligence officer who wrote the 14 novels that gave rise to the roguish spy.
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And somehow Han Solo – the roguish Star Wars hellion famous for breaking all the rules – finds himself in a feel-good movie that doesn't break any.
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However, aside from crowded inventor territory, there was probably another reason why the focus pivoted away from Hank Pym and toward the friendly, roguish Scott Lang.
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The brothers have a few new projects under way, including a roguish travel show for television, partly inspired by "Fishing with John," the 1991 cult classic.
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After all, what looks like charmingly roguish behavior when it's coming from a teenager looks genuinely alarming and even legally actionable when it's coming from an adult.
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The sound restoration is superb, and an extensive booklet sheds light on both the sessions and their roguish producer, a self-described "jazz hustler" named Teddy Reig.
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With roguish Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) in command, the crew of the starship Enterprise completes a five-year mission of scientific exploration and intergalactic diplomacy.
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" And Veselnitskaya has said Goldstone's "roguish letters" now seem designed either to "confuse everything, or intentionally make everything look intriguing so that the meeting could take place.
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With his craggy features and mane of wild grey hair, his roguish charm and serial infidelities, he conforms exactly to popular notions of what an artist should be.
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Boutella is a striking presence, but almost everything else about the movie proves clunky, including most of the attempts in the feeble script to establish Nick's roguish charm.
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Audiences fell in love with the roguish Peter, no-nonsense Gamora, the alien Drax who didn't understand irony and the bromance between Rocket Raccoon and tree-alien Groot.
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In fact, his songs are some of the most dazzlingly beautiful on the record, propelled by roguish charm and candor that doesn't always come through in real life.
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Along with the mercurial winger Andy van der Meyde, Mido and Ibrahimovic formed a roguish friendship group: a trio of prodigious rebels with the world at their feet.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The origin story of Han Solo, the roguish intergalactic "Star Wars" bounty hunter, has finally been given a title, director Ron Howard unveiled on Tuesday.
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Fisher rose to fame as Princess Leia in the original "Star Wars" franchise from 1977 to 1983, alongside Ford's roguish Han Solo and Hamill's Jedi fighter Luke Skywalker.
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Their father remains very involved, but his sons seem determined to rid the company of its roguish, old-guard internal culture and tilt operations toward the digital future.
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His experiences acquiring these works led to one of his most entertaining later books, a series of stories called " Rumbin Galleries ," about a roguish but honest art dealer.
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But Shakespeare made him a legend with his 2000 play, Henry V.. Shakespeare's Prince Hal transforms from a roguish, prodigal son to a capable leader during the play.
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That meticulous conviction, which extends to a series of accompanying video documentaries online, has helped move the label from a roguish upstart to a leader in its field.
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WATCH: 23 Oscar Nominees Reveal The Untold Stories Behind Their Films If the performance typecast him as a roguish megalomaniac, there was still no shortage of roles for Boothe.
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Other Republicans have seen the same in Rockwell's idealised paintings, full of roguish boys and pious grandparents, baseball games, kindly policemen, daydreaming adolescents, heroic workers and self-important intellectuals.
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With "never tell me the odds" engraved on the back, you can wear this when you want to bring a little roguish spirit to a tough project at work.
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His performance is effortlessly roguish and wry, but he also ups the emotional ante, grounding the fight against evil as well as the fledgling romance with heart and soul.
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Pine plays Trevor with the easy, roguish charm that he employs so well, and he does a fine job of being his own man without trying to upstage Gadot.
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And it's a comparison that, stylistically, is wholly reasonable: both men play with the same roguish joy; both are natural showmen; both routinely resolve games with moments of splendour.
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Her soul mate, Rafael, is a roguish hotel heir—and the show gives him meaningful competition, in the form of a nice-guy detective, Michael, whom Jane eventually marries.
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Instead, in the last scene, Wilson gives us back the suave, roguish Nijinsky from the opening of the show, doing little snatches of dance in his patent-leather shoes.
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It's part of a research project that's creating public-domain machine vision models and identifying new species: I can now separate the wild radish from the more roguish sea radish.
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Erica Strange (Erin Karpluk), a smart, sexy and underachieving 32-year-old, finds her world irrevocably changed when she seeks treatment for a premature midlife crisis from a roguish therapist.
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If Mr. Grimm seeks a patron saint, he could try Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the roguish congressman from Harlem whose scandals led fellow House members to oust him in 1967.
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When Lambert first emerged, fans and critics sometimes compared her to Natalie Maines, of the Dixie Chicks, another Texan with a high, clear voice and a roguish sense of humor.
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Overall, the number of bankruptcy case numbers remained low as governments used "roguish methods" such as debt-for-equity swaps and private-public partnerships to keep insolvent firms alive, he added.
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Moore was also known for his starring role in The Cannonball Run as well as the popular television series The Saint, in which he played the charmingly roguish criminal Simon Templar.
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Even when Weinstein publicly crossed the line — almost coming to blows with a rival at Sundance in the 1990s, for instance — the nastiness faded, becoming part of his roguish public identity.
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And he aged into a voluble and distinctive public character, a roguish charmer in a kufi, operating out of a packed storefront studio, tooling around Memphis in a plush old sedan.
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The series's first big twist was the reveal that roguish Teddy (James Marsden), coming back to town to see his erstwhile love Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood), isn't a guest, but a host.
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But even so, there's a roguish guy hanging out in a booth in the cantina — the same booth that Han Solo was sitting in when he had a run-in with Greedo.
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After that, though, "Resistance" bogs down, as Kaz meets a diverse but fairly uninspired band of roguish and eccentric characters, who he approaches with a little too much youthful, wide-eyed exuberance.
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It may be my unshakeable loyalty to Ford's grumpy, roguish performance that makes me wary of Alden Ehrenreich taking on the character, even if some reviews are saying he does an admirable job.
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Posted to Beijing as a foreign correspondent from 1998-2004, your reporter remembers American officials talking of the People's Liberation Army a bit like policemen talking about a roguish clan in the neighbourhood.
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The patriarch interested my own father, who always called him Papa Joe and admired him, however grudgingly, as a roguish son of a bitch whose interest in his children was evident and intense.
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That we have publishers mining the dregs of his work for another book because he has this roguish reputation further degrades serious literature and insults those who care about poetry of real merit.
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The Nashville home where Clark and wife Susanna, also a songwriter and artist, lived was a salon for songwriters, performers and roguish characters involved in Nashville music scene with Clark and Van Zandt presiding.
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His latest big-screen role is as Jack Hock, the roguish sidekick to Melissa McCarthy's down-and-out writer Lee Israel, in Can You Ever Forgive Me, based on the real-life Israel's memoir.
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Loosely translated as 'native cunning', viveza criolla is the art of roguish deception; a special form of smartness that, in the words of anthropologist Eduardo P. Archetti, encourages a "capacity to cheat where necessary".
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When we first meet Philip (Matt Smith) in The Crown, he's the handsome, roguish man that Elizabeth (Claire Foy) has decided to marry, despite her family's concerns — Philip is not the "right" kind of royalty.
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They include 2016's "Rogue One," and May 2018 release "Solo: A Star Wars Story," which follows the origins of the roguish smuggler Han Solo, made famous by Harrison Ford in the original 1977 movie.
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Mr. Jennings (not to be confused with the "Jeopardy!" champion) is a very creditable Finian, who doesn't oversell the roguish Gaelic twinkle, though it gave me pause to realize that I saw him as Mrs.
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Veering from hard-man posturing to roguish whimsy, Mr. Fassbender anchors a story (by Alastair Siddons, who previously worked on a documentary about a clan like this) that's more successful in texture than in logic.
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Thematic focus aside, there's a scattered feel to Lemonade that inspires nasty thoughts about high-status guests and too many producers; on the other hand, each musical setting does feel appropriate to the particular nature of the emotional exercise, like the bluegrass strumming and assembled horns on "Daddy Lessons," in which her father teaches her to take out roguish men with a gun, or the organ-soaked blues-rock pounding of "Don't Hurt Yourself," in which she snarls fierce threats at her roguish husband.
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In autumn 1939, as Poland fell to German and Russian tanks, he courted Frances Ann Cannon, whose other beau, a roguish young man named Jack Kennedy, was seen by her parents as something of a problem.
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Asif Kapadia's 2015 biopic Amy didn't play up to the singer's roguish side either, although amid the sadness there are moments where Winehouse is genuinely fucking funny, adding to the pathos and the viewer's sense of loss.
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"Moana" features newcomer Auli'i Cravalho as its titular non-princess and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as Maui, a roguish but broken demigod who wears his legendary status quite literally on his sleeve (and chest, and back, and stomach).
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As for the recruits, the other headliner is the red-hot Chris Pratt -- whose roguish charm is surely one of the movie's bigger marketing assets -- as a boozy gambler, while the rest have been transformed into a rainbow coalition.
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That God-level roguish confidence that empowers him to call his dad by his first name, to cycle down busy roads with no hands, and to sit on public transport with his legs spread wider than Blaenau Gwent valley.
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In the absence of actual information about how the US government is conducting counter-terrorism intelligence to thwart ISIS, it's tempting to accept the morsels fed to us, especially when they're fed in such a fascinating and roguish package.
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Tituss Burgess and Jane Krakowski are the roommate and former employer who bounce Kimmy around like a human volleyball; Carol Kane is her roguish landlady, fighting the gentrification of their Brooklyn neighborhood one spray-paint can at a time.
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And though he doesn't name them, they appear in the changing states of his roguish dancing (to tango music) and in the shadowy figures painted on 24 panels, displayed in the church sanctuary and outside in Abe Lebewohl Park.
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In a clip, exclusive to PEOPLE, the film's director Rian Johnson, Oscar Isaac (Poe Dameron) and Fisher talk about the dynamics between the galaxy's favorite princess and her roguish commander — in particular, one scene in which Isaac's Dameron questions his superior.
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Then there are the uncertain suitors of Elinor and Marianne, who include the diffident Edward Ferrars (Jason O'Connell, who doubles hilariously as his character's loutish younger brother), the roguish John Willoughby (John Russell) and the stalwart Colonel Brandon (Edmund Lewis).
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If that works, it's a fascinating and roguish idea — adding a DIY, open-source computer to your car that could enable features that go beyond the scope or wishes of the car and tech companies that are fighting to control it.
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Gyllenhaal didn't look like a vain movie star hogging someone else's spotlight, he looked more like a roguish teen, swooping in to charm his buddy out of hot water (Vallée had just recited a Roman Polansky quote for some reason).
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When he won the Booker Prize for G, an experimental narrative novel that chronicles the exploits and political enlightenment of a roguish hero, he donated half the prize money to the British Black Panthers in protest of the award's sponsor.
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On record, it has set down roguish Haydn and poised Brahms, as well as Scandinavian folk music, a Dacapo release called "Wood Works," and an outstanding survey of first quartets by Thomas Adès, Per Norgard and Hans Abrahamsen, on ECM.
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But when the sheikh dies and two roguish members of the entourage want to bail on their hazardous mission, up pops Shakib (a rivetingly weird Shakib Ben Omar) — armed with a quiverful of faith-based harangues — to urge them to continue.
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So now Ms. Ringwald is at 59E59 Theaters in the outsize role of Aurora Greenway, a widow who spends half her time bickering with her grown daughter, Emma, and the other half pursuing a romance with a roguish former astronaut.
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The immersive play begins with the initiation of guests into the Poe Society by Jimmy Harder (played by Johnny Pozzi), a fellow so cavalier and roguish that you can safely wager he will be among the first to experience some sort of trauma.
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The classic action comedy about trucking and boozing came in second only to Star Wars in terms of 1977's year-end box office, and solidified Reynolds's image as an affable-yet-roguish good ol' boy, equal parts charm and rugged masculinity.
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By the time this Roundabout Theater Company revival floated onto Broadway, Ms. Benanti had established herself as an old-school star; it's Zachary Levi, her leading man, who proved a surprise in his portrayal of her roguish co-worker and secret love.
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Maybe if we merge these two characters and you play those aspects of Dante from the comic, which are both charming and roguish and funny, and yet if you look at it, he could also be kind of inappropriate and boundary-pushing.
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I've liked DeHaan in other things (especially his work on HBO's In Treatment and in this year's bafflingly ill-conceived but fascinating A Cure for Wellness), but he keeps getting cast in parts that require a roguish charisma he doesn't really have.
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But I suspect that What Men Want's filmmakers were so concerned with making Ali "likable" — the roguish quality rarely plays well for female characters — that they took out most of what would have made her a character in need of redemption in the first place.
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He scored a tournament-best six goals, including two — a roguish toe-flick over a goalkeeper to cap a squiggly dribbling run and a 180-degree-turning, left-footed volley walloped in from 25 yards — that offered particularly tantalizing indications of an immense skill set.
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When Mr. Stone, the roguish former Nixon adviser and master of the political dark arts, came to New York in 1979 to court support for Ronald Reagan's presidential bid, he arrived with a box of index cards filled with the names of actors and producers.
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The New Jawn quartet has a roguish, brawny sound, sprung from the earthy drumming of Nasheet Waits and the sharp-elbowed horn playing of Josh Evans on trumpet and J. D. Allen on tenor saxophone (on previous engagements, the saxophonist has been Marcus Strickland).
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It's a perplexing question: Carlson was once a go-to for thoughtful, serious conservative thinkers, but with his move to Fox News — and the success of his show there — he's become, as Lenz puts it, 'a Trumpish avatar — roguish, rich, independent, and confusing as hell.
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Taking place in a beautiful modern alternative universe where we have a female president, this flirty and romantic tale focuses on the burgeoning relationship between enemies-turned-lovers Alex, who is the son of America's president, and Henry, who is a roguish English prince.
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In terms of the performances, it's a somewhat easier lift for Rockwell, a master of playing unlikable characters with roguish qualities, than Williams, who wrestles with Verdon's distinctive voice -- an element that serves as a bit of a distraction before settling into a deeper portrait.
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Which is funny, given that it's the story of how Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) got to be the roguish reluctant ally of the original Star Wars trilogy, tracing him back to his early days as a street kid growing up in thrall to a local gang.
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UNCHARTED - Live Action Fan Film is an unauthorized short that stars Fillion as Drake, the roguish, intellectual treasure hunter in the mold of Indiana Jones who anchors Naughty Dog's Uncharted video game franchise, in what looks like the beginning of one of his trademark epic adventures.
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He often described a life in food service to be ascetic and maniacal—a true single-minded dedication to the culinary arts that supersedes any concerns over low pay, long hours, mental and physical health, and I think that's where his roguish vigor was most apparent.
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Han Solo is a hero and a roguish figure in the original trilogy, and Solo is here to explain all the things you never really wondered about him, such as why is his last name Solo, and how do you do the Kessel run in 12 parsecs?
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With its potent genre mythmaking, it felt like "Star Wars" for a new generation, but though Jordan played the foe, he had more in common with the roguish Han Solo than with Darth Vader: Killmonger is dangerous, sexy and far more exciting than the virtuous protagonist.
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The one who catches her eye is Jake (Shia LaBeouf, in his most sympathetic performance to date), a roguish charmer who sports a pierced eyebrow and a long plaited pony tail, but who also wears suit trousers with braces because he thinks they make him look "Donald Trump-ish".
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Tall, trim and rangy, Mr. Arnault has a shy, serious way about him, and his demeanor leans more toward the efficient management consultant that he recently was than, say, that of his older half brother Antoine, who has a supermodel partner, Natalia Vodianova, and a slightly roguish air.
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No less than seven of the 10 movies of 2015 feature white male heroes, whether they were roguish ex-smugglers (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Navy veterans (Jurassic World), superheroes (Avengers: The Age of Utron), street racers (Furious 7), political revolutionaries (The Hunger Games), astronauts (The Martian), or spies (Spectre).
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As our boat wove among islands occupied by single stately homes sheltered by pines and leafless trees, a knowledgeable, droll guide told us all we wanted to know about the picturesque archipelago, from its ice age geological origins to its roguish Prohibition-era calling as a haven for liquor smugglers.
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The revival belongs to a distinguished (but roguish) family of Shepard classics that have been born again in Chicago, including two definitive interpretations from the Steppenwolf Theater: its 1982 "True West," starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise, and a "Buried Child," directed by Mr. Sinise, that landed on Broadway in 1996.
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The film's purgatory also functions as a microcosm of an America trying to get a grip on its sins from the 1960s; Richard Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover, cruelly casual racism, roguish celebrities, doomed Hollywood starlets, hippie cult leaders, gruesome random murders, and the Vietnam War are all in the story's background.
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He briefly considers joining his friend in the riot-police force, but cannot summon the enthusiasm for "beating up lefties", so he spends his days catching up with friends in teahouses and picking fights with his charming but roguish and irresponsible father, Idris (Murat Cemcir), who is addicted to betting on horses.
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Young Han (Alden Ehrenreich, doing a passable Harrison Ford impression) is a roguish but starry-eyed young derelict who fancies himself an outlaw, living on the dingy planet of Corellia with his girlfriend Qi'ra (Emilia Clarke), with whom he plans to escape their state of servitude to a giant slug-like queen and head for the great wide galaxy.
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For weeks, as the song turned into a sensation through a torrent of internet memes and listens on YouTube and Spotify (with now more than 250 million combined streams), representatives for Migos had been trying to book the roguish group — made up of the rappers Quavo, Offset and Takeoff — a performance on late-night television, a rite of passage for rising acts.
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Yes, it's hard to shake the sense that we probably didn't need a "young Han Solo" story, and the way it tries to walk the line between explaining how the roguish Han of the original Star Wars trilogy came to be and letting this young Han have some big hero moments can feel slightly like it was engineered in a lab.
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The O'Neal brothers owned two destination restaurants near Lincoln Center: the Ginger Man, whose name was inspired by J. P. Donleavy's lusty novel and play about a roguish barfly, being portrayed Off Broadway at the time by Patrick; and O'Neal's Baloon, distinguished by its enclosed sidewalk cafe and its enigmatic name (an imaginative spelling to comply with an obscure State Liquor Authority ban on the word saloon).
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But the lack of period specificity only contributes to the generic quality of the ride, which owes less to William Golding than to a Salinger-cum-"Dead Poets Society"-inflected idea of boarding school in which authority figures are garbed in the primary-color costume of good cop or bad, while their interchangeably roguish wards have cooler-than-thou nicknames (Figs, Smurf, Sprocket) that stand in for actual character development.
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A 48 year old newspaper columnist who hasn't been clubbing since he was a roguish fresher in the 4343s will write an incendiary newspaper column about nightclubs being "hellish cesspits populated by walking lobotomies, run-down pleasure palaces for dunderheaded dullards who've stuffed themselves silly with the remnants of a particularly potent pharmaceutical stew," in order to sell papers and generate clicks and you and everyone you know will be FURIOUS about the disrespect on show.
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Hello Kitty, for example, might look like a saccharine kitten, but she has an impassive stare and no mouth; Pikachu, the yellow electric mouse from Pokemon, looks like a cuddly rodent but can unleash a deadly power and has a roguish behavior; the wrinkled E.T. resembles both a newborn baby and an elderly person; and even Micky Mouse, who epitomizes the benevolence and innocence of Disney, originally had a sadistic streak and a trickster-like personality.
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Yes, really.) With a main-event cast featuring the destined-for-greatness Michelle Williams as Jen Lindley and Joshua Jackson (a long way from his Mighty Ducks days) as Pacey — who sleeps with a teacher within the blink of an eye but eventually captures every heart with his roguish charm — plus supporting love from Kerr Smith, Meredith Monroe, Busy Philipps, Mary-Margaret Humes, Broadway vet Mary Beth Peil and more, Dawson's Creek delivered a bevy of lessons on first love, creating your own destiny, figuring out how to make the most out of life, friendship and everything in between.
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The history blog Two Nerdy History Girls, written by two historical fiction authors, found a depiction of a 17th-century milkmaid in Covent Garden in a 1771 novel titled The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, which described the milkmaid thusly: The milk itself should not pass unanalysed, the produce of faded cabbage leaves and sour draff, lowered with hot water, frothed with bruised snails, carried through the streets in open pails, exposed to foul rinsings discharged from doors and windows, spittle, snot, and tobacco-quids from foot-passengers, overflowings from mud-carts, spatterings from coach-wheels, dirt and trash chucked into it by roguish boys for the joke's sake, the spewing of infants who have slabbered in the tin measure, which is thrown back in that condition among the milk, for the benefit of the next customer; and, finally, the vermin that drops from the rags of the nasty drab that vends this precious mixture, under the respectable denomination of milk-maid.
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