Sentences with phrase «as furtive»

At this point, control is transferred to the player, as Josh's car - to - car search for his spouse serves as a furtive tutorial.

Their reputation as furtive and successful exterminators grew after feral cats were introduced to the parking lot of the Wilshire Division nearly six years ago.

But as the furtive feline pounces, he discovers that he can't fly and travels down, down, down — twisting and turning as only cats do — until he lands in the arms of a sidewalk merchant.

As Nick and Naomi first meet, she puts up her hair, rolls up her sleeves, and gets ready for work; behind her, Nick looms in the background, training a gaze on her back that could only be described as furtive.

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Monument characterizes the assaults as «furtive and fleeting.»

As deliverance practitioner John Tancock helpfully says of demons: «They are grubby, dirty and furtive.

But in church it is so sad to see the furtive worried looks of men saying in hushed tones that they are taken, as if I was automatically interested in seducing them just because I'm not married!

Some journalists saw him as a slightly sinister, furtive, cold figure, always pacing the corridors while on his mobile phone, talking almost daily to his close friend George Galloway, whom he addressed as «chief».

Although a furtive few probably survived through the 1930s, the last confirmed Sierra wolverine was shot as a specimen in 1922.

As the gay community sought to define itself, it's not surprising that sex, once furtive and approached with no small amount of fear and shame, suddenly became openly and publicly celebrated and sought after, and in a handful of American cities, the gay scene became the center of a wildly celebratory orgy that lasted until 1981, when the discovery of AIDS led many men to reexamine their sexual habits.

As her inamorato, Fichtner has a furtive slyness to him that adds another vital layer to the proceedings.

As Bana's shrink presses Redgrave's furtive, fretful Rose for details about a life glimpsed in increasingly lurid fragments, you're tempted to wish all involved had abandoned the script and allowed a venerated performer to reflect on the many and happier acting opportunities that surely constitute her memories, and ours.

Although Dillon was already an established star by the time he made this film, having also appeared in such movies as «Over the Edge,» «My Bodyguard» and the S.E. Hinton adaptation «Tex,» «Rumble Fish» was perhaps the first that really showed off his considerable strengths as an actor in the way that he captures all the furtive, headlong energy and emotional turmoil of Rusty as he struggles to find his place in the world without simply giving audiences the James Dean impression that others might have supplied.

The movie called forth two of the year's most unintentionally hilarious performances, with Sally Hawkins, in the title role, doing lots of precious furtive glances and sneaky smiling, and Ethan Hawke, as her brutish husband, grunting.

Furtive glances are about as close as the two come to an actual relationship, but the film spends an inordinate amount of time on their wishes to be together.

Half - formed and not really resembling the adult version of itself, Tadpole recasts better movies as situation comedies and in so doing locates itself as a pretty nice (unoriginal) idea with few aspirations beyond inspiring a bidding war at Sundance for its furtive parsing.

Instead, his eyes had taken on a furtive quality, as though at any second he would be ready to reach for the taper and strike the small room into life.

The race going on between players is what keeps things intense, but you do have to be careful that people don't become too absorbed as you'll find folk hunkering down over their board and the table going silent, only the occasional grunt of frustrating to be heard amid the furtive glances at other boards to see who is doing what.

She's described as a rogue god and some fans theorize she might be the Furtive Pygmy, which — let's not go on a lore dive.

Another curious decision is the lack of online multiplayer, meaning that the only way you can play with others is to rope in some poor unsuspecting bastard and force him to sit on your couch alongside you for a local session, most likely as he casts furtive glances at you and re-evaluates just why you guys are friends in the first place.

There are faces, but they are depicted in ways that seem to cancel themselves out: a quick, semi-abstract mark, furtive smudges of paint, a collaged face cut out from another painting... Certainly these works present an accomplished artist asking questions about her own practice, questions such as: How can I paint the body in a more immediate way?

Furtive Gestures, Dave McKenzie's solo performance as a magician, which will explore the ways the gestures of black bodies (hands in pockets, shoulders askew, etc.) are said to signal danger or the need for surveillance.

Indeed, even though he believed them to be his most important works, Gainsborough saw the production of his landscapes as an almost furtive activity, undertaken in spite of his increasing pre-eminence in the art world.

Thematic group exhibitions include Audible Imagery: Sound and Photography; The Furtive Gaze, works by artists who use the camera as an instrument of surveillance; Camera / Action: Performance and Photography; and Anticipation, exploring strategies of slowness and suspense in time - based art.

His practice focuses — through video, installation, sculpture and furtive interventions — on the body as both an archive and a territory.

As the Narendra Modi app faces fire over the furtive nature of its data usage, a five - year - old US - based startup is facing the heat, too.