picaresque

The way they took their 1-0 was picaresque rather than planned.

The picaresque novel is an example of such a genre.

He's also got something of a picaresque life story.

The picaresque literature of the period is also very preoccupied with food and drink.

Indeed, there is no picaresque tradition among women who are novelists.

It succeeds, however, as a picaresque novel rich in its effects.

The film would have become dramatic, even melodramatic, instead of being picaresque.

In fact, though their stories are full of picaresque incident, they seem contrived.

His picaresque activities and sharp tongue won him election to the Assembly.

What picaresque strategies had he seized upon now to keep pace with the rent?

It's all very whimsical, but that, of course, is what a picaresque novel can be.

"The Tables" is not so much a political tract as the equivalent of a picaresque novel.

He also wrote short stories, picaresque romances, children's books and screenplays.

Below these picaresque encounters, the author laid a current of underlying tension.

And so it is a picaresque sort of adventure."

In the earlier book, this picaresque approach yielded both terror and exhilaration.

No longer picaresque, the quest for father and fortune now aims to be profound.

We are being swept away on a tide of picaresque Euromovies.

Themes are usually tragic and somewhat picaresque, where one makes fun of one's tragedy.

They usually revolved around a picaresque central character who comes of age at a crucial historic moment.

Ben's efforts to get his suicide mission back on track soon lead to a further series of picaresque adventures.

The picaresque novel and the soap opera are open-ended forms.

There was a picaresque quality about him that would prompt him to appear in public with such a woman.

It was Smollett's third novel and met with less success than his two previous more picaresque tales.

He lived a picaresque life including stints as a cowboy, medical doctor and psychologist.