p pa pb pc pd pe pf pg ph pi pk pl pm pn po pp pr ps pt pu pv pw px py

Перевод: picaresque

[прилагательное]
плутовской; авантюрный

Тезаурус:

1. He followed that with "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasses Song," the crudely made, picaresque saga of a sexually defiant rebel, starring himself, which he distributed to theatres in black neighbourhoods.
2. In a war-time article on Smollett he remarked that several writers had recently tried to "revive the picaresque tradition", instancing Waugh and Aldous Huxley - adding that the experiment had not been entirely happy, if only because they had betrayed a sense of strain in an effort to be shocking.
3. The picaresque literature of the period is also very preoccupied with food and drink.
4. David as a child "sustained my own idea" of Roderick Random, the scapegrace selfish hero of this picaresque novel, "for a month at a stretch", could see Roderick's faithful servant Strap at the wicket of Blunderstone church, and when Micawber went to the King's Bench, remembered Roderick's imprisonment for debt (chap.
5. The term picaresque is used pretty loosely here, no doubt, as it often is, to mean something like episodic and comically adventurous.
6. The art of vituperation comes naturally to Busi, and, although the picture of Northern Italian provincial life (in the vicinity of Brescia) which the author paints occupies only a small part of the novel, which takes his picaresque hero on to greater things in Milan, Paris and London, it is a memorable picture, and provides the necessary underpinning to a writing that spares no effort to make the reader understand the nature of the social and sexual domination.
7. " That "familiar in fiction" is deadly, suggesting as it does that the author has stopped looking at life and has purloined his Andre from the picaresque, in which rogues are invariably charming and whose advances are never rejected.
8. Its beginnings partly account for the novel's loose picaresque form, recounting a series of adventures of Mr Pickwick and his friends (Snodgrass, Winkle, and Tupman), although the initiation of Mrs Bardell's breach-of-promise action provides a continuing plot-interest, and Mr Pickwick is transformed from the conventional comic figure of the early chapters by his connection with Sam Weller.
9. Kasmin's career personifies the post-war evolution of the art market, from the romantic picaresque of the Fifties, through the fanciful Sixties, the grim Seventies, hypermanic Eighties and the burst bubble, as he prefers to see it, of the Nineties.
10. John Simon found Dustin "always endearing with that sour-grapefruit face and voice of his, both of which, paradoxically, ooze the juice of human kindness", while David Thomson thought that Dustin "was near his best, managing old age easily and riding the picaresque adventures of a put-upon outcast all the better because of his own denial of starriness.
11. His alertness, however, hardly resembles the quizzical interrogations of the puzzled but essentially self-effacing philosopher Palomar; it is the wide-awakeness of a picaresque hero on the make.
12. Joseph Wambaugh (1976: 6-;7), in his picaresque novel The Choirboys , uses the symbolic load contained in the control of hair to illustrate the dysfunction between "real" Los Angeles cops and their incompetent, corrupt, and inept hierarchies.
13. We are being swept away on a tide of picaresque Euromovies.