Tricksier

Definition

tricksy /'trÇksi/ adj ( infml usu derog ) (တင္ဆက္မႈ) ဆန္းျပား ႐ႈပ္ေထြးေသာ။ a film full of tricksy camera-work that fails to disguise a weak story.

Examples

1. ‘Someone tricksy has been taking pictures of the car he drives in the forthcoming movie.’
2. ‘Our traditional institutions of learning are under threat from these nasty
3. tricksy cheats.’
4. ‘Strachan
5. on the other hand
6. was regarded as tricksy enough to outmanoeuvre his dour Aberdeen and Manchester United manager.’
7. ‘Bawer is quite plainly a talented writer
8. but he is also tricksy
9. and he has a tendency to overload what are often perfectly valid points with debatable stylistic flourishes.’
10. ‘But Gray is a tricksy fellow and might be fibbing.’
11. ‘I'd rather thought this might happen
12. because one or two of the words were tricksy
13. to say the least.’
14. ‘Partly it is through a fear of actually engaging with the tricksy arguments themselves: it is altogether easier to attack the individual - to take out the man
15. rather than the ball
16. as it were.’
17. ‘The second paper was again a little tricksy in places
18. but overall nicer than the first one.’
19. ‘It's all well-played by the Northern Sinfonia under James Sinclair
20. and the music is sprightly and often engaging
21. but a lot of it is tricksy stuff
22. full of little efforts at musical humour or attention grabbing.’
23. ‘It is immensely clever
24. perhaps overly tricksy for some tastes and
25. most importantly
26. extraordinarily brilliant.’
27. ‘It's pretty middling stuff
28. with a tricksy mannerism of freeze-framing the action at the end of a scene
29. which makes it look like a dodgy DVD pressing.’
30. ‘It is also a thing of beauty
31. with typography that's clever without being tricksy
32. saliva-inducing photography and cute little naif drawings.’
33. ‘Flashbacks
34. dream sequences and supernatural intervention merge into a miasma of disjointed
35. tricksy effects.’
36. ‘They think up tricksy names
37. they might even hire an expensive designer to do them a label
38. and when it comes to the end
39. their wine is made in the same winery as all their rivals' wines.’
40. ‘Out went the tacky
41. big-budget stage sets and tricksy technology and in came rock 'n' roll again.’
42. ‘The Maltings' interior design is obviously not to the judge's taste: it is said to be ‘entirely contrived
43. with a tricksy decor strong on salvaged somewhat quirky junk’.’
44. ‘Also
45. a pair of tricksy pop-out cupholders hide behind a flimsy bit of plastic on the passenger side.’
46. ‘Now there's a tricksy little topic not likely to raise many smiles should it happen to pop up in conversation.’
47. ‘Sure
48. the profile questions were laboured and tricksy
49. but they either gave way to genuine honesty or exposed pretension; you could just tell when a person was straining to be winsome.’
50. ‘Then again
51. it might just be a tricksy way of showing-off a bit.’