Sentences with word «coyness»

And yet by rushing through the stuff that a lot of audience probably came to see, Fung may be confusing simple coyness with genuine subversion.

But the movie's coyness in committing to a point of view about the assassination and its focus on the hapless interviewer rather than the killer ultimately rob the movie of interest and meaning.

Sean Dyche doesn't seem a man built for coyness, but he's suggested that Burnley, who broke their transfer record to bring in Steven Defour from Anderlecht, might have to do so again before the window closes.

I roared with laughter at Streepâ $ ™ s coyness over showing her ex-husband her body while she was standing up, as â $ œThings have sagged a bit since you last saw itâ $.

Though in recent years there has been a revival of theological interest in St Thomas, [8] a certain coyness often remains when contemporary writers discuss his doctrine of the sacrifice of the Mass..

It's a type of comedy defended by coyness.

And even if there is generally an improved understanding of God, to say that this is because of a progressive divine revelation rather than because of our own increased understanding through the years is tantamount to saying that our earlier ignorance is God's fault for not revealing more sooner, It hardly seems necessary to blame human ignorance on a divine coyness, or to picture God rationing out carefully increased doses of self - revelation.

Attaching a peculiarly negative significance to the mark he has made, he lost his once abiding respect for Who's Who in America, he says without coyness, when it requested his biography 10 years ago.

There was none of the «proper» post-prime ministerial coyness that our Tony normally pretends to.

That's a particular problem when the film is about transgender transitioning, a subject that isn't illuminated by decorous coyness, which is what director Tom Hooper has in sensibly sized spades.

To some degree, this is to be expected in screwball comedy, given that a majority of the films of the genre had to balance Production Code coyness (unless it was a pre-Code film like Lubitsch's Living) and Hollywood sentimentality.

Well, it's good enough that I didn't begrudge it the appropriation of Bowie's «Starman,» which in a lesser film would be an act of criminal coyness.

And the film's nudging coyness fully matches its obviousness when Vichy premier Philippe Petain (Claude Rich) makes a cameo appearance, though he's never identified in either the dialogue or the credits.

It's certainly quick enough although Ferrari's coyness on exact figures seems somewhat ridiculous, quoting times of «under 3sec» for its 0 - 60mph time and 0 - 124mph in «under 7sec».

He's a big boy compared to his mama, and his quirky, friendly ways make up for her initial coyness.

When PeterS talks about ``... a sophisticated coyness about a dislike of the other people they have to share those spaces with» I think immediately of poor George Monbiot and his lament that the bus he had to take from Oxford to Cambridge went through the most dreary places.

After weeks of coyness, MLA Sandra Jansen, 53 (Calgary - North West) finally announced her candidacy for the Progressive Conservative leadership contest.

You complain about Miley Cyrus grinding some guy singing about coyness and helping a girl overcome it?

The coyness of God even to make Himself known in finite form for everyone to see is also admittedly unsatisfying, and this is a burden of any believer (ie.

Of its nature, such a way of thinking is supremely jealous: It resents the coyness of being in withholding itself from clear and precise ideas, and it resents any form of novelty that might upset its invariable order of essences, anything new — any way of thinking or speaking of being — that might try to come forth into the open.

While having once forgotten the old maxim that the Labour Party owes more to Methodism than to Marx, Tony Blair appears, since leaving office, to have repented of his coyness about «doing God».

Lord Ashcroft has always defended his coyness over his tax affairs by insisting on his right to privacy.

The overall effect is seductive in its coyness, its simplicity.

However, his coyness is about as new as Mayor Bloomberg's shoes.

No, I suspect there are two reasons for his coyness.

Millions of users have enjoyed the app's straightforward and effective matching system, which cuts the coyness out of dating by just letting guys say «Hey, I like you.»

There's neither coyness nor self - importance in Brokeback Mountain — just close, compassionate observation, deeply committed performances, a bone - deep feeling for hardscrabble Western lives.

While the souped - up trailers and kitschy title promise harmless exploitation fun (forever deferred by the haunting absence of a theatre - set shootout nixed in the wake of last summer's Aurora massacre), Beall fancies this a ground - level history of Los Angeles, surely born of his coyness about cribbing from The Untouchables in every respect but the setting.

Discovered on an Essex railway platform and just 17 years old at the time of filming, Jarvis's debut performance could be described as the kind of lightning - in - a-bottle creation that happens when charismatic amateurs plays close to the bone, were it not for the intelligence and shading of her line readings, her quicksilver switches from aggression to coyness and her intuitive awareness of her character's own limitations as a performer.

The intended irony is clear enough, but the coyness makes the scene ugly.

Yet, despite us knowing about apprenticeships for ages, there is still a coyness in the way government talks about them.

Jetson makes up for her coyness with his extroverted and quirky ways.

Coyness is one of their unique traits.

The coyness with which Howard's figures indicate their interior and intimate lives is precisely their charm.

The women are suggestive, and refer to other artworks as diverse as Persian miniatures, ukiyo - e prints from Japan, and John Singer Sargent's Madame X. With their bare, rounded shoulders and graceful hands, they seem poised to seduce, and yet they are completely engaged in their own affairs and thus devoid of affectation and coyness.

In part that coyness is understandable: the problem (s) are complex, interwoven and responsibility is, by the nature of the system, diffuse.

Coyness, apparently, has no place in patent drafting.