A sly glint came to his eye then, as if he was about to say something mischievous. |
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His hair will be carefully dishevelled, he will be unshaven, and he will wear a sly grin. |
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She secretly envied the maid for her ability to remain so sly and untouched by pain. |
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Each side tries to take the scientific high ground, pointing to the gender split with a cough or a sly look. |
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Was he also taking a sly dig at the Canadian pretense that we don't engage in American dreaming? |
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His eyebrows were raised, mouth puckered, his eyes sly, defying me to ask more questions. |
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This grimly comical tone, with its overtly sly humor, is what ultimately elevates the film to a level of near brilliance. |
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He knew the locations of the sly groggeries, brothels, bookie outlets, and gambling and booze dens. |
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He was sharply perceptive and had an earthy, sly humour which put an edge on his nice irony. |
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This sly charmer is so small that everyone and everything towers above him. |
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The artist's show of drawings and paper constructions continued his sly, joyous subversion of traditional mediums. |
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This is just one of the reasons why this sly, sci-fi spoof of a short film is such a welcome surprise. |
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You just disappeared and Eileen told me that you had eloped with a man you'd been seeing on the sly. |
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Philip was a sly and somewhat oleaginous character but also an effective, resolute, and respected king. |
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Unfaithful, sly, smooth-talking and quick-witted, 350 million people tuned in from around the world to find out who shot him. |
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Once a sly grogger had been convicted and paid his fine, he was in grave jeopardy. |
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Scotch was so scarce it was not unusual for empty bottles to be refilled with fake stuff and sold off in dark alleyways by sly groggers. |
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In 1883 a riot erupted at the Mackay racecourse when a sly grog dealer refused to serve the Islanders, who responded by throwing bottles. |
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Photographs convey their singularity and pragmatic making, but don't capture their sly humor and evocativeness. |
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He had on a sly grin and cackled louder and louder as he made his way closer to her. |
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Those who really wanted liquor found it at sly grog shops or across the city boundary. |
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He raised his head to look at her, meeting her eyes and giving her a sly smile, causing a faint blush to appear on her cheeks. |
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I used to know a teacher who took a couple of her sixth form students out in the car at lunchtime for a sly cigarette. |
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It's a vigorous language, by turns colloquial and formal, precise, even-toned, elegant, sly, ironic, subtle and funny. |
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His rare lyrical quality bears emotional depth without sickly sweetness, and sly humour without jokey or ironic irritants. |
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A sly and sophisticated writer, he could always get around the code of silence with indirection. |
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The movie is a sly comic romp that transforms the realities of rock and roll into a fantasy farce about joy, fame, and isolation. |
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Understated literary allusions and layers of irony give Victorian attitudes a sly contemporary look. |
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In the end, however, it is sly Odysseus's invention, the Trojan Horse, that permits the Greek forces to enter Troy with terrible consequences. |
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But that short eyebrow, sly grin and crooked jaw are now what make me, well, me. |
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She felt his beady little eyes staring down at her and his sly lips curved into a smile. |
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Maidenly honour is tricked into a fatal moment of weakness which the ballad-monger, as though with a sly wink, seems actually to condone. |
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The first aim of the Bolshevist seducer and sly talker is to make you doubt God. |
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She portrays herself as a witness of poetry's sly seizure of the grounds of self-knowledge. |
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The script is sharp, without an ounce of fat but with great moments of dialogue that retain a sly, wry wit. |
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She was a rather cunning and sly teenager by nature, accented by her narrow brown eyes and usual smirk. |
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They were sly and quick with words and a smile, cunningly tricking their foes. |
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In March 1873 Whitbread left far away Mount Freeling Station for the smelters at Bolla Bollana, to investigate a report of sly grog selling. |
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Someone call the Washington Times and alert them to this sly wolfish masquerade! |
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The king's wife finds out his secret, and on the sly sends for the two children in the king's name. |
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Those raised in urban Western understanding of the psychology of the animal kingdom tend to view the fox as a cunning, sly, deceitful animal. |
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His comedies combine screwball dialogue, slapstick and, fascinatingly, sly social critique, where morality is never clear cut. |
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Diplomacy as a game values the sly, the cunning, the underhanded, the crafty. |
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Lord knows the girl had made enough sly remarks about them getting together. |
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His persona is by turns clueless, sly and naughty, meekly desperate, monstrously infantile and always theatrically aware of his audience. |
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He could make you hear his sly smile, he could make you cry at a sad story, he could make you believe a tall tale. |
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From here, abstinence education looks like a sly attempt to shift the responsibility for iniquity from state to individual. |
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I'm starting to go faster at each race but I'm still not sly enough when it comes to hitting my adversaries! |
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Her letters therefore reveal a web of motives and sly manipulation that her uncomfortable position encouraged. |
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The Romans, who will resolutely overwhelm an adversary with the might of arms, they say Phoenicians are deceitful and sly. |
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In either case, the juxtaposition of sly humour and high drama seems to mirror the gap between Stiller's two personas, as farceur and tragedian. |
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The entire nation tuned in to watch his presentation of the 1994-1995 budget interspersed with Urdu couplets and sly digs at the opposition. |
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On rewatch, this feels like a sly joke on the part of Lost's writers, cluing us into what's in store for the audience and the castaways. |
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He loved gossip, had a wicked salacious eye, a sly coyness, and he actually snickered all the time, delicious and conspiratorial. |
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On the cover shot, Fleck sports a sly grin as if he knew what a wonderful journey he was about to embark on. |
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One of his friends referred to him as a very sly and funny and youthful man who dressed like an old man. |
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Cyclists take tows on the sly, grab drinks and food from them, and are paced back to the pack by them. |
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The pleasant task of helping pod the peas for Sunday lunch while eating the odd one on the sly should be part of childhood. |
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As a sly wind breathed wispily beneath my collared shirt, I opened the main doors to the school and stepped inside. |
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In your community alcoholism is a problem and so is joined to that, sly grog. |
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It is very rare for already mated females to copulate on the sly with males who are socially subordinate to their current mates. |
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Fascism is about corporatism and the slow, sly, insidious subversion of the democratic process, which you have very capably written about. |
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However famous a celebrity may be stateside, you can unearth a commercial they filmed for some rando foreign product on the sly. |
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Like some sly medieval scribe, Kurtz frequently embeds conceptual ideas, jokes or symbolic content in the drawings. |
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Suddenly the Gats treaty is not about trade at all, but a sly means to wipe away restrictions on business and industry, foreign and local. |
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Throughout the work, he debunks theories and rituals, and pokes sly fun at other writers and the foibles of his own characters. |
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He used to peel down to his jockstrap, muscles glistening, sly grin flashing, while firing cryptic answers at the media, which he loathed. |
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Realizing what he had done, he forced his way through the front of the bus and ran off, with a sly, toothless grin on his face. |
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It is a sly attempt to get this issue out of the way before the election proper starts. |
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There are references made to both of those movies, both in the form of sly sight gags and in scenes almost directly cribbed from them. |
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Possessing a quick eye, and sly about it, they never let slip an opportunity or an advantage when it comes their way. |
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The cross hairs impose a sly menace on the land, the small dots of calibration turn a life into an algebra problem. |
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She cocked her head to one side with a sly smile, like a toddler coaxing a treat from a grownup. |
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The moment Qambar's hard, sly face appeared on the screen, the gloomy living room lit up with hoots, howls, clapping and whistling. |
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The box fills with civic worthies, ladies in floral hats, and the occasional chinless wonder who has wangled a sly invitation. |
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Using crocodile tears and empty promises of true love, Trudy plays Norval like a violin, suckering him into her and Emmy's sly scenario. |
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Rylance was unforgettable as the mordantly sly king in Richard III, giving a brilliant new twist to a classic role. |
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I was hoping he would open his eyes, give a little sly smile, and jump off that table. |
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I sensed a sly, sudden presence to my right, perhaps a cat or a dog, then heard a shrill, piping voice that might have come from a child made of metal. |
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With Australian spies among their number, they face a season-long barrage of insults and sly remarks if the world champions add the Captain Cook Cup to their trophy haul. |
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But your first single will be a sly interpretation of a pop classic, a cutting, winking comment on the throw-away existential flukiness of your new-found celebrity. |
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Amid the glamour in the slammer, Marshall's cynical and superficial film lets the sly digs at American corruption bubble away underneath the frothy surface. |
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The play has not only sly wit, it is very cunningly constructed. |
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Until her death in 1996, she was still renowned for her wit, her sly gamesmanship in her personal relations, and her stoicism in the face of deadly disease. |
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The husky voice, the delivery, the winking humor, and the sly references to acting conventions gone by all suggested a bona-fide artiste, not just a painted gorgon. |
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The sly, literate prose filtered through wavering vocals still dwells in corners of life either too big or too small to express with such uncanny eloquence. |
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He said with a sly grin as Emerald busted out into hysteric laughter. |
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A smirk is a satisfied half smile, but you aren't going for the happy, sly look. |
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In Karen Engelmann's deliciously sly first novel, fortune lies behind each turn of the cards. |
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No sly glance across a crowded room, no awkward conversation steered round to that coy invitation for a first date. |
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A sly glance, an admiring word, their confidence in me to complete any mission. |
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Levy is dazed and robotic, and O'Hara is subtle and deadpan sly. |
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It's insulting to my morals as a decent human being to have to watch people degrade themselves on television and use sly tactics in order to win money. |
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Violence, comedy and sly social commentary swirl together and produce an impressively potent head rush. |
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Charming, suave, mischievous, irresistibly sly, a wooer insouciantly determined to win back his beloved by fair means or foul. |
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Should you throw a quick glance at the viewers, drawing them into sly conspiracy, or pal up with them, in a more sustained act of concord? |
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The children exchanged sly looks and jokes with their father behind their mother's back, conspiring against her remorselessness. |
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When his eyes opened, he managed a small smile, his eyes crinkling at the corners in the sly way they always did. |
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Here the self-pity has grown deliberate and sly, as a lovelorn American named Alex savors Paris self-importantly. |
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The translation, by Gerardjan Rijnders, results in a razor-sharp script, with a sly wink at the present day. |
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He is remembered as an inveterate drunkard, a sly politician, a notorious procrastinator, and altogether a bit of a clown. |
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Just ask one of NYPD's finest who recently failed to grab an eyeful on the sly. |
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Passing bills on the sly like this is a last-resort strategy for a government trying to make changes that do not have unanimous approval. |
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I found a pack of cigarettes, took one out, smoked it on the sly and decided it was not for me. |
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We do not deny the need for reform, but this reform must not be improvised in this way or brought in on the sly. |
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I am even more concerned when I think of Peru, because we can see the agreement was negotiated on the sly. |
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We would have found people to buy this publishing house but everything was done on the sly to allow the American company to reclaim Ginn quickly. |
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First of all, the Fifteen signed the agreement on the sly and under the smokescreen created by the Charter of Fundamental Rights. |
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It shows very clearly that no one can reintroduce a mini-Treaty on the sly now that the people have spoken. |
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You check it out, and discover that your 10-year-old son has been drinking on the sly. |
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The government has just announced the purchase of more tanks, but they were purchased on the sly. |
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On the sly, I took out some of those things and re-inserted some love poems. |
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But I can't take a sly, disgusting reference to the Great Famine of 1845-1852, sometimes known as the potato famine. |
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When not used to, dips 4 to 6 meters, it makes you feel like... remain horizontal and not to the sly devils! |
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We need to look for thoughtless or sly inclusion of opinion and bias in news reports and commentaries. |
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This sly illness had crept into your bones and powerless, you looked at me without really understanding. |
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Despite the sly tactics, they are more than capable of holding their own in a fair fight. |
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Syrinx, sly elusive instrument, go try To bloom again beside the pools where you await me! |
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Her sly, skewering banter and provocative cynicism were her defense in a male-dominated profession and also her selling point. |
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Her songs draw on Stevie Wonder, the Jackson 5, sly Stone, Curtis Mayfield, and contemporary hip-hop. |
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Are its users loud and proud harbingers of the sex-tech revolution, or just people who want to get a bit freaky on the sly? |
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In fact, some of us would like to think that Fallon meant it as a sly dig and knew exactly what he was asking. |
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Her occasional sketches are hit-or-miss, best when they have some sly subtext. |
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He looked at me curiously over his bifocals, a sly smile on his face. |
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It's hard to make unlikable characters interesting, but Igby somehow has just the right tone of sly humor, just the right hint of cartoonish sincerity. |
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But it is dispensed with such style, coupled to such a mixture of absurd silliness and sly knowingness about human nature, that you can't help falling for its charms. |
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The dialogue is often artful, with sly suggestions that the seeds of various Shakespearean plots and themes were sown in the muck of their messy affair. |
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Ray was oblivious to my cunning and sly plan, and I kept it that way. |
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It's not impossible that such a conspiracy is taking place, because there are many sly people who manipulate the dumb citizens for their own benefit. |
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She'd obviously met a bad bunch, for McCabe is immoral, deceitful and sly. |
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Stan nodded conspiratorially, a sly grin creeping over his face. |
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He seems touched but then can't resist having a sly dig at himself by pointing out that the really tender thing to have done would have been not to include it on the album. |
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Given his reluctance to admit the obvious, it's no surprise he still manages to aim a selection of sly digs at the Australian umpires and authorities. |
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Galloway asked them, with a sly grin, to look out for his car. |
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Younger and wirier than his charge, talking a mile a minute and singing during his chores, he nonetheless shows a careworn, weary face, and he drinks on the sly. |
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Unfortunately, the train to my conference left at 4 AM after a night spent trying to acquire a travel visa on the sly, which meant drinking a lot of vodka. |
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My mate knew a sly grogger, and by midnight we were well away. |
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Accordingly, an effective way to keep sly felines out of places they oughtn't be is by using strong pulsating ultrasonic waves, inaudible to the human ear. |
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Christine Goerke not only plays Armida with sly wit, but she also sings the exacting fioriture and lyrical arias with razor-sharp precision and elegant musicianship. |
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As the story edges ever closer to the Baum novel, characters transmogrify into the Tin Man and Scarecrow and there are endless sly references to the invisible Dorothy, cyclones and shoes. |
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We sense, or imagine we do, the Adrenalin pumping through her system and a sly wit informing her thoughts. |
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It is sly, clever after a fashion, and undeniably effective. |
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It's that first sly whiff of tobacco on the air, the steel-blue smoke slinking seductively across a shaft of light, the embers glowing brightly as a smoker draws in. |
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Of course, calling Descartes the first nerd grossly ignores his personal refinement, elegant prose style, sly wit, even his surprising career as a soldier of fortune. |
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They make zillions of dollars and this seems like a sly way to get more. |
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Acquaintances will surely pry about the willowy new outlines of your once sinewless figure, pumping you for diet tips amidst sly inquiries about wasting diseases. |
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Was voting for these awards a sly dig at the American establishment? |
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The sly grin on his face and the glint in Len's eyes said it all. |
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The remainder of Saw is spent unravelling the puzzle, offering sly red herrings and tracing the progress of a detective obsessed with cracking the case. |
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And then, with a sly reference to William Tecumseh Sherman and a joke about peeing in locker room showers, it all came to an end. |
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I just can't stand the man's style, the way he swaggers and struts and smirks and the way he looks sly and deceitful and the way Americans can't see it. |
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But then he perked up slightly, a sly grin coming onto his face. |
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Everything was done on the sly, and that is what we do not accept. |
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Let us not switch round the priorities on the sly. |
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Burke was boastful and sly regarding his Grammar of Motives, in which he introduces and applies his theory of Dramatism. |
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I think he's the man you see later on, quite nattily dressed, kind of a sly look about him, and he was called Old Tomorrow, there's a hint of that there too. |
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Slim and taciturn, a sly upward turn to his lips, a farseeing look, Jean Gabin Fanovona gives off a feeling of secrecy and one suspects that the race of musician to which he belongs is similar to that of magicians. |
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We start with Catullus and Juvenal, and I'm struck by how modern it all seems, how piss-taking, undeferential, sly, sarcastic and satirical. |
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And all the time she'd be brivetting about on the sly with any good-for-nothing young rascals she could get hold on. |
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The other varieties would include both the flamboyant dunker and the timid one who tries to dunk on the sly. |
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Of Vintage connected to the smart Glamour by way of moved Street-wear, new and authentic guaranteed articles, ceaselessly renewed of emoderato.com will allow each to build up to themselves a look at sly price. |
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It will backfire in the form of sly destructive acts against us. |
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Her eyes sparkling with intelligence, and trying hard to stifle her laughter, Millet adds a sly allusion to the jam and bread that is handed out as a free staple to hungry children at school. |
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As ever, Brown lightens the whole effect with sly touches of humour: where you might expect to see lifebelts he has hung a row of scurvy-beating cabbages. |
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Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery. |
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This maneuver, to be done in the summer season, and on the sly for sure, is meeting reluctance and even opposition, which the Prime Minister had not expected. |
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So make the most of those pratfalls and sly looks to camera, because Miranda Hart is moving on. |
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One of the major causes of that may be that the bill was apparently prepared on the sly, that a firm position was taken without even consulting the stakeholders. |
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Trying to eliminate certain exclusive privileges of Canada Post without debate, on the sly, quickly, through the back door, leaves us asking a tonne of questions. |
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So make the most of those pratfalls, catchphrases, and sly looks to camera, because Miranda Hart, right, is moving on. |
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Why does she want to dismantle the Canadian Television Fund on the sly? |
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We learned on the Friday morning that the Liberals, the Conservatives, and the NDP, a large contingent at that time, had decided unilaterally to introduce the bill on a Friday morning on the sly, to avoid discussion. |
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The Syndicat des communications de Radio-Canada would also like to make you aware of the fundamental changes that have been made on the sly at Radio-Canada International. |
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This diversion was enjoyed on the sly, and unknown to the ladies of the house. |
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The sly old rascal might easily be deceiving his daughter for a second time with regard to his smugglesome traits. |
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The next painter the sultan approached was a sly old dog with more suss than a Cockney two-card trickster. |
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Perhaps her genius is best appreciated in her sly, aphoristic brevity. |
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The assembly of materials, whacked-out scejarios, and sly political undertow mocks the seeming coherence and uselessness of the work. |
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Why did the Minister of the Environment wait so long to disclose more evidence that Mr. Jaffer did indeed act as a lobbyist and why did the minister do so on the sly on a Friday afternoon? |
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When this agreement was negotiated, on the sly, as I pointed out before, we should really have made sure that stringent constraints and monitoring methods were included, for overseeing work done there. |
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They bring in live-in partners on the sly. |
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The attack had sly ideas and a serrated edge. |
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Serkis performs the songs, accompanied by Dury's old band the Blockheads, and he does it with gusto and precision, getting both the costermonger roar and the sly, coy lounge-singer inflections. |
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Seeking to earn a quick buck on the sly, some travelers from Dubai, have started smuggling gold by air, hidden in a range of electronic goods. |
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Instead, the many pitfalls of the typical middle school relationship of victimizer and victim are revealed through wit, humor and a killer of a sly twist. |
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A few of them had an expression that I recognized from elementary school — the sly, intent look of children enjoying the spectacle of schoolmates being disciplined by a teacher. |
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The rest are Britten's sly send-ups of classic English-village types, including the harrumphing Police Superintendent Budd. |
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In every way it evokes layers of classicism old and new, in which traditions deriving from ancient Greece and the Baroque are hugger-mugger with 20th-century jazziness and sly vaudeville fun. |
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Suddenly its sly, subversive jive talk made sleazy sense. |
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They can no longer resort to the sly glance, the murmured remark that reveals the underestimated intelligence of the wife, the mother, the daughter. |
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Huston gave Colonel Davidson a sly glance and winked. |
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The Sirens, gleeful scourge of mariners, beguiling bane and cruelhearted joy, whom no man could abandon once he'd heard them, were left, they say, through sly Ulysses' ploy. |
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Before the book is relegated to the second-rank of Baker's fiction, though, consider the author's sly sense of humor and the absurdist, Vonnegutian context. |
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His features might have been called good, had there not lurked under the pent-house of his eye, that sly epicurean twinkle which indicates the cautious voluptuary. |
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He would permit Mrs Leeming, he said with a sly Irish smile, to visit the pit site only if she got a full night's sleep, no big-eye, no waiting up for the midnight sun. |
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As a talky, digressive, and also topic-ridden book, it has none of the feeling of sly inexorability that propels a reader of the early novels toward the promised end. |
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Sly fellows turn the notoriety acquired through public office into the real coin of the realm, plugola. |
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Sly has traded in his exploding arrows for a chocolate milk mustache, his waxy steroidism for cutesy cloddishness. |
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Christopher Sly, a drunken old tinker, is conned into watching The Taming of the Shrew as it is presented by a company of players. |
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Larry Gelbart's freewheeling Sly Fox seems starless without George C. Scott, but Barbara Cook's concert provides all the charisma one needs. |
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Brer Rabbit is constantly at odds with the likes of Brer Bear, Brer Wolf, and Sly Brer Fox. |
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He performs Sly with his usual care and dogged efficiency, but he never gets under the skin of the part, and the results are very bland. |
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Sly and the Family Stone were a veritable factory of fantastic songs, and they seemed to churn them out with no effort at all. |
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Then she was new wave, moving to the Bahamas for another trio of records, this time with reggae rhythm masters Sly and Robbie. |
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Dave Kelly, Steelie and Cleevie, Sly and Robbie, Bobby Digital, and Tony Kelly. |
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Here, though, he's a ponytailed bad-ass who incurs the wrath of Sly Stallone's hitman in a violent action yarn. |
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Antonio Banderas is a sociopathic hired gun trying to kill rival hitman Sly Stallone in an underrated action film. |
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Sly Stone and his band were the funkiest group around and had already had a top ten hit single on both sides of the Atlantic with Dance To The Music. |
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Sly convincingly concludes that Schubert's works during this era demonstrate his experimentation with the relationship between thematic and structural recapitulatory devices. |
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