Which is to say, this tricksiness is taken as evidence of trickery, a performative artifice aimed at an illusion of significance, an inflated sense of import. ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)
Without having read the book myself, from this and other responses I've read or heard, I don't see any reason to challenge the assessment of the book as flawed, overly concerned with typographical tricksiness to the detriment of other literary qualities, and to the detriment of the book as a whole. ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)
Things like Zoline's Heat Death of the Universe, much liked by Aldiss he says, but is no fan of such writing tricksiness with science fictional trimmings, being basically a story about a common woman in California that isn't SF at all. ❋ Blue Tyson (2008)
Some readers may not enjoy the existential tricksiness but the voice is similar enough between the two books that I think even they will be carried along for the ride. ❋ Tim Stretton (2010)
His music lacks the rhythmic invention and tricksiness of the US R&B that inspired it (the almost-martial beat of Sergeant Smash comes closest), but it has the polish and commercial hooks of, well, all the other British auto-soul currently dominating the charts. ❋ Unknown (2010)
At other points, though, it all gets lost in its own tricksiness as it lurches back and forth from colonial India to 1930s Edinburgh and to the present day, swerving between characters 'viewpoints with such speed that it occasionally induces literary motion sickness. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Having held back for those first three, sunny months, he fell into tricksiness and political game-playing. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Metafiction can be tricky in its tricksiness, but VanderMeer pulls it off wonderfully. ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)
Given teh tricksiness ov teh cats and teh werewoofs, and the ….carnivorousness … ❋ Unknown (2008)
I suppose this appealed immensely to Ellaline's love of intrigue and kittenish tricksiness generally. ❋ Unknown (1901)
I can comprehend the delicacy and tricksiness of his mood when he is evolving a work of art. ❋ Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (1888)
In fact, they have no other which does not come under the definite title of pride; -- pride in their physical prowess, their dexterity, ingenuity, and tricksiness, and their purity of blood. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
Elfishness, tricksiness, freakishness, were antipathetic to his nature; and he argued that it was impossible he should have chosen for his complement ❋ George Meredith (1868)
