caper

Ms. Lincoln has crafted an ambitious and intricately plotted caper that will have readers riveted until its final, and supremely satisfying, sleight of hand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

This week, we learned about a presidential caper.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026

Wodehouse caper: “Jacqui Cutler trudged into her expansive kitchen, looking every bit as worn out and miserable as someone who had spent the morning digging potatoes, which she most certainly had not.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

The intricacy with which Whitehead details the planning and execution of this caper marks him as a top-tier researcher — he’s drawn on many primary sources to ground this work of fiction in historical fact.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

He would cackle with laughter and caper, if any jest was made, or even if Frodo spoke kindly to him, and weep if Frodo rebuked him.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Comedy capers like this usually deflate in the third act when their pleasures get punctured by unfunny gunfire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Wild king salmon topped with tomatoes, olives and capers was accessorized with a puff pastry in the shape of a cartoon fish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

Or maybe just revelling in the Canadian capers.

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026

Writer-director Joe Carnahan aims for the steadily heightening tension and astonishing action set pieces of great Michael Mann crime capers like “Heat” and “Thief,” but there’s a reason his film can’t match those classics.

From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2026

You can’t help but laugh at de capers they cuts.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

"We don't have the means to pay for her studies," she explained from their home's back courtyard, where young children capered about and two rams watched from an enclosure.

From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026

Her two dogs, Emma and Bubba, capered into Speier’s sunny living and dining room, lightening the mood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2023

Elvis impersonators capered all over the Nicolas Cage comedy “Honeymoon in Vegas,” part of a running shtick.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2017

Clay, the new champion, capered along the ring apron, shouting at the press: “Eat your words! I shook up the world! I’m king of the world!”

From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2016

He capered out from under the porch where he lived in hot weather, and ran circles around us, dropping down to slide his hind end in the weeds.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

But as respectful as writer-director Jon Watts is toward creating opportunities for wise-ass capering, the movie is curiously both a labored and lax attempt at restoring that luster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2024

There’s a scene in “Don’t Worry Darling” where Harry Styles, playing a character named Jack, is shown onstage at a large raucous gathering, spinning and capering before the crowd in a frenzied solo dance.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2022

A capering figure silhouette on the door depicted Rich Uncle Pennybags, the Monopoly Man.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2021

He has described Flavor, with his comic-strip grin and giant clock medallion, as “a visual character with audio bonuses”: the capering hypeman in a band otherwise defined by stony-faced gravitas.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 6, 2020

“It was pleasant, in a way, to know that outside their windows, the devil was still capering in a flare of brimstone.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson