Barbara is featured as the main character in the wraparound narrative of the story collection " Waggish Tales of the Czechs ".
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The book has been described as showing Thomas'" waggish humor at its best, his exuberance & verbal magic in spectacular display ".
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"Do you have a soul, or are you just a hairy machine ? " the would-be waggish philosopher asks his pet.
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"Do you have a soul, or are you just a hairy machine ? " the would-be waggish professor asks his pet.
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Market players were a lot happier, the waggish Abelson pointed out, when Greenspan was fretting about Wall Street's " irrational exuberance ."
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By emphasizing waggish, nonstop violence over a cool, slow scare, Sommers and company have made a film as eager to please as it is fatiguing.
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Izzard gives the impression of being fully equipped _ and eternally eager _ for such occasions, a waggish prodigy who simply can't turn the comedy off.
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For all its misfortunes, its chronicles of the dispossessed, " The Moor's Last Sigh " is a waggish novel, told in a voice of irrepressible wit.
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In the 1950s, the waggish mathematician-balladeer Tom Lehrer paid mischievous tribute to the 19th-century Russian mathematician Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, who was thought to be an inveterate plagiarist.
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Yet Ms . Dern turn in such a noisy, waggish performance that it all becomes part of the joke : her unsightly appearance is just another consequence of being awkward and so clueless.
