• Given Mr Kim's roguish reflexes and the past 50 years of hostility, achieving it will take patience and courage.

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  • When a program strays, the NCAA singles it out as roguish, a label that allows the lucrative NCAA ecosystem to escape serious investigation.

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  • If deterrence worked against a heavily-armed Soviet Union, ask sceptical Europeans, why would it not work against a roguish regime with just a handful of rockets?

    ECONOMIST: Getting defensive

  • This enabled him to secure the services of Brad Pitt, who turned in a career highlight performance as a roguish Irish-gypsy smuggler with a barely-comprehensible accent.

    BBC: Guy Ritchie's rise to fame

  • In two-and-a-half years, he has driven al-Qaeda into hiding, toppled two barbaric regimes and induced several other roguish states (including Iran and Libya) to rethink their ways.

    ECONOMIST: There are plenty of them, alas

  • As the famously roguish Casanova, Malkovich bears an imperious and occasionally self-mocking air, whether eloquently philosophizing, wading into the action himself, or merely watching his younger self carouse.

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  • Labour's desperate gerrymandering makes the Conservatives' simple decision to let their own London members decide whether they wanted the roguish Lord Archer as their candidate look admirable by comparison.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • He hires as a caretaker a street thug born in Senegal, Driss (Omar Sy), who treats him with an abundance of pity, and the two men form a roguish friendship.

    NEWYORKER: Strongmen

  • Jack Davenport plays the young, roguish gentleman who vies for Lady Windermere's affections - quite a change from his most famous role, as Steve in the ranchy BBC sitcom Coupling.

    BBC: Lady Windermere brims with talent

  • Doing something serious about their most roguish member would be a good way to prove wrong those doubters (including your columnist) who see ASEAN doomed by its own inaction to irrelevance.

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  • Even if Macau can pass muster with Wall Street and U.S. regulators, the bigger question may be what it portends for China whether its roguish success rides on the kinds of epic corruption that the Party recognizes as one of its most urgent threats.

    NEWYORKER: The God of Gamblers

  • Coming on the heels of The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844), in which a financially strapped and roguish outsider tries vainly to find a place in English society, Vanity Fair paints on a much broader canvass and finds the ultimate social climber in the talented, lovely and ever-conniving Becky Sharp.

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