But he is also puckish and warm, with a penchant for vests and bow ties, fedoras and fezzes.
Wolfowitz spoke softly to Yasa, who evidently had no idea who he was but responded with a puckish smile.
She did not in fact betray very much at all other than a serene confidence and a puckish wit.
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"We were very lucky during the nuclear age, " chirps the puckish 60-year-old professor.
The central protagonist of this tale is Jack Frost, a Puckish prankster whose powers appear to be confined to giving children snow days.
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Mr Putin resents the West's influence in former Soviet countries such as Georgia and Ukraine, and he dislikes the puckish Mr Saakashvili intensely.
This is a wonderful film, from puckish start to momentous finish.
Mr Bush is all winks, jokes, flapping hands and puckish grins.
In 2001 Linux pranksters raced pigeons against a 40-gigabytes-per-second fiber line to test a concept a puckish American scientist first coined a decade earlier:CPIP--Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol.
In previous films his work has been stylish, puckish, precise, reserved, distant or, the hardest of all qualities to achieve, invisible conveying the illusion of a film unfolding spontaneously.
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From puckish humor and borderline kitsch, a great and serious notion emerges: modern Europe was built on the foundation of classical music, which, as a result, endures tenaciously there.
Yet, as the foregoing makes clear, these lists often contain trick entries, where puckish magazine editors will insert nonexistent cities or bogus data just to see if readers are paying attention.
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After a weeks-long manhunt for a communications wizard, it looks like the job will go to a puckish novelist and an unlikely candidate: Fannie Mae communications chief John Buckley, nephew of William F.
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