Sentences with phrase «even furtive»

The conversations are often private, even furtive.

This goal is evident in John Boswell's efforts to establish the marginal, the sometimes tolerated, and even the furtive on an equal footing with the Christian tradition.

If we give even a furtive glance toward violence, we can not see God's eyes.

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Christopher Howse, however, finds that he's not centrally concerned with the confessional at all: «The real subject of the book is sex, and not the ordinary sex that Mum and Dad enjoyed, or even the romantic adultery of a Paolo and Francesca [da Rimini], but nasty furtive sex — of sex solicited by confessors, abuse of minors, girls or boys, of masturbation, guilt and shame.»

Their aesthetic bonds lie in a noir twilight (even in Caribbean sunshine) full of fretful voices and furtive tension.

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.

Even so, there is still a question about his near furtive treatment of the series.

Although Jones was often and perhaps even usually copied on Briffa emails, Jones wasn't copied on these furtive emails between Wahl and Briffa.