pixieish

It had knots and ropes and a pixie, because, as she later recounted, he thinks of her as a pixieish troublemaker.

“The blond, pixieish Miss Mills gives a restrained, natural and gratifyingly mature performance. She is a likable youngster whose mannerisms and speech are unaffected and convincing.”

Carrie was similar to the other Robins in some ways: she wore the same suit, the pixieish boots, and, at 13 years old, was as sharp as she was witty.

One member of this circle was Thomas G. Corcoran, a pixieish, ebullient, accordion-playing Irishman known as Tommy the Cork, who had been an aide to Franklin Roosevelt and had since become a legend in Washington as a political fixer and a fund-raiser nonpareil.

Still, for all his world-vaulting omnivorousness and pixieish humor, Sjon is a deeply personal writer, and the most powerful reading of “CoDex 1962” is that it’s an attempt to wriggle out of the ultimate straitjacket: mortality itself.