Jonathan Richman, among others, spent his prime writing this kind of slyly humorous yet evocative music. |
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The self-defeating nature of imperialism is slyly suggested through a dramatic reversal that exploits the notion of the white man's burden. |
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The mathematician proudly gave his answer, glancing at me slyly out of the corner of his eye, as if he had outdone me in some way. |
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Upset over the turn of events, they slyly have her removed from their home, leaving both the maid and the young daughter distraught. |
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He slyly let the students' horse loose while they were grinding the corn, forcing them to rush after it, forgetting the meal. |
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He slyly begins to manipulate the situation by playing Cyrano for both youngsters. |
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He uses extremely creative images of the devil and demons in order to slyly subvert our expectations. |
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A brief portion featured the pair chattering about the pitfalls of marriage while slyly manoeuvering around a kitchen table. |
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As its slyly punning title suggests, this 1999 documentary is Herzog's tribute to his doppelganger. |
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The great genius behind this storyline was that Ward was slyly biting the hand that fed him. |
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Thinking slyly and foxily about the timing and style of one's pitches is not the same as back-sliding or moving to the right. |
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Its characters are calculatedly charming and the script slyly ends each of its tragic notes with a sight gag. |
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That terrible smile of his returned slyly, as if he knew precisely what he was doing. |
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Sinking into the large cushion on her armchair, she smiles slyly, as if just awakened from drowsing over the book shut on her lap. |
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Her ruby red lips were grinning slyly as she placed her arms around her lover's neck. |
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She sat there with her hair pulled back, her gamine face shining, her eyes slyly crinkling, and bit on her pencil. |
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In contrast to the dignified silence from the other side, even slyly whispered accusations are magnified to sound deafeningly crass. |
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From the street, the new interventions poke and peek out slyly above rooftops and through gaps in the street frontage. |
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As we roam the streets, they slyly peep at us and challenge us in 20 different guises. |
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She lets him do the talking while slyly poking a little fun at him along the way. |
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In a slyly clandestine work, Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles arranged for vendors to sell unflavored popsicles in front of the exhibition venues. |
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She marched right into class, sat down, and slyly waved at all her friends from last year. |
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Will they try to slyly get around it using regulatory amendments or special approaches? |
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Rebekah Camm, a soprano, was a slyly devious Mrs. Cat. Blythe Gaissert, a mezzo-soprano, sang pertly as Auntie Duck. |
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He is the champion of the risk-averse, and Prada has always slyly perverted the canons of impeccability that his brand embodies. |
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In that instance, as it is now, it was very comforting to know that I was wrong and he had been slyly enjoying his years in the land of the living. |
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Moll's film may well owe its inspiration to Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, and this film could just as easily be slyly retitled The Trouble With Harry. |
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His subjects gaze proudly, slyly, questioningly, provokingly or even exhaustedly into the camera. |
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Remembrance was sharp enough. Under questioning, he revealed a slyly insubordinate streak. |
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It is slyly witty, full of knowing asides, false starts and playful indirection. |
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The reports slyly question his comments that personally written blog posts predate his time as minster. |
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I hate that my daughter will grow up inundated by images that will slyly tell her she is not pretty enough. |
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With crisp, articulate draftsmanship and a penchant for queasily keyed-up colors, Sharrer presents slyly enigmatic events that are punctuated by surreal details. |
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The tympani seem to slyly attempt to set the whole thing off again but the woodwinds intervene and compete with a higher bid of poetic juggling. |
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Now beauty has crept into the revelation of contentious social issues, and poetry has slyly infiltrated their texts. |
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Result: they slyly legitimize the entry of the private healthcare employment agencies in the public health network. |
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Yet the ambiances and the influences are different on each track, evolving slyly, widening the palette of our eclectic musical tastes thus. |
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It's a quick, cheap, fun read that's entertaining and slyly apolitical. |
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Boyle's novels are wittily and slyly satiric about the earnest, innocent reforming utopians who questioned social attitudes and proselytised progressive, perfectionist ideals. |
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Leaving the Atocha Station A widely acclaimed debut novel with a slyly self-conscious look at a young poet just passing the time. |
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Below, another less obvious route twists off slyly to the south. |
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After slyly gaining entrance to the castle and accidentally saving the king from an assassination attempt, he is given prestige and title by the thankful ruler. |
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The imperious, self-involved mother dotes over her baby girl's hair and slyly inveigles the child to continue with her brilliant career as a shoplifter. |
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His mother looks around slyly, with a little smile on her face. |
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Today, they slyly tried to report indirect speech as direct speech. |
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At one point he slyly inserted a movement best described as a swimmer's flutter kick, a typical skewing of classical technique. |
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At times, the disturbing and disagreeable impression of having heard it all, slyly rises, one wrongly thinks he can no longer be surprised, disturbed or dazzled by new sounds or new melodies. |
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Born Nathan Thompson – he was nicknamed Giggs because of his tendency to slyly, even shyly, giggle, often at the absurdity of a given situation – he was influenced by the original sinners NWA and dirty south hip-hop. |
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The Charest government has not stopped relaxing the regulations since its arrival in power in 2003 in order to facilitate subcontracting, slyly making it legal for private agencies to get into the public health network. |
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Mellow and thoughtful, he isn't an introvert so much as slyly shy. |
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Man is ever busy with his immediate needs which slyly lead him to death. |
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Among the patients were three children who were being treated for severe burns and mutilations they suffered as a result of a slyly buried homemade bomb. |
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Taking advantage of the new anti-Strasbourg offensive launched by the Anglo-Saxon lobby, Mr Ferber is going beyond his role of rapporteur in order slyly to set himself up as Strasbourg's critic. |
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Contrary to what the executive committee and the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development would have us believe, this revision slyly but irremediably introduces genetically modified vines. |
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He was a shy, abrupt, slyly witty, and intensely thoughtful man. |
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Shortly before John Fowles's The Collector appeared, Enid Blyton deployed a couple of collectors in her 1957 Famous Five adventure, Five Go to Billycock Hill: her depiction of two myopic butterfly-lovers is slyly homophobic. |
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In a world where we've become used to fairytales being slyly reimagined in inverted commas, Branagh approaches the story with a straight face. |
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Throughout, du Boucheron steers clear of overpsychologizing, staying true to the medieval worldview even as he slyly creates a modern morality tale. |
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Eliza laughed slyly, passing her finger under her wide nosewing. |
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Along with being uncommonly intelligent, well-read, slyly humorous, and full of fascinating showbiz stories, Robert is a supremely professional actor. |
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In fact the best thing about The Muppets is how slyly self-knowing it is, with the characters mentioning the budget and how they have to have a montage. |
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