Sentences with phrase «in furtive»

Seemingly crafted out of countless late nights spent in furtive dialogue with self, nature and others, the show offers suggestions of urban influences and psychological musings that beautifully coalesce into a hypnotic inner world.

An employee at First Street Gallery, a program for adults with developmental disabilities, Rae creates works from colored pencil and graphite that exude a strange power and sense of menace that depict fierce and frightened - looking women that seem to be hiding or escaping in furtive dream - like adventures, emerging out of or disappearing into ornate floral patterns, shrouded in luxuriant foliage, or on the verge of vanishing into abstraction.

From stage directions delivered in furtive whispers to the cackle of the witches and the grim resolution of Lady Macbeth, Cumming astounds.

Surreptitiously, Frankie explores his sexual desires for other men, on the internet, and in furtive encounters.

The romance plays out in furtive moments between twoyoung lovers who are eventually separ Mary's Wedding, Theater more

Over time, in furtive and stolen moments, Eliza develops a bond with the creature, communicating with it / him through sign language and offerings of hard - boiled eggs.

Psychologists tell us in furtive talking - head sequences about the boys» disconnection from reality.

The nefarious creature I speak of is the Admin... a name only whispered in furtive whispers only in the darkest corridors of AIS.

David remains in furtive, fitful love with Keith, a tall, dark, handsome cop with anger - management issues.

Not exact matches

Yet Mother's Day was a furtive opening to women in the Protestant calendar.

«Nor can we remain silent in the face of other more furtive, but no less serious and real, forms of euthanasia.

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.

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!

And I would be deeply suspicious of those who condemn such gossip if they also claimed that they never succumbed to a furtive glance at the National Enquirer while standing in line at the supermarket.

It's a treat to see Ritter return to the leather jackets, scarves and fingerless gloves again; her character isn't quite like anything else on television, with furtive glances and desperate gambles revealing some worrisome cracks in her smart - alecky veneer.

I THINK * I say this with fingers crossed and a furtive prayer that I'm not proved wrong * that Summer is finally over here in Kentucky.

When they are little it can be just the beginning act of getting them to open their mouths long enough to get those first furtive but all important cleanings in -LSB-...]

Prince Charles has been deeply troublesome in his present role, but has been restricted to scribbled - out notes and the odd furtive discussion.

Remote - sensor cams deployed in a Himalayan valley at altitudes of up to 5,000 meters help ecologists gather data on one of the world's most furtive animals

Interestingly, Ioannidis predicted that more researchers in the field are not necessarily better — especially if they are overly competitive and furtive, like the fractured U.S. intelligence community, which failed to share information that might have prevented the September 11, 2001, terrorist strikes on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

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

is a furtive business in Britain.

The film's striking images — an isolated gothic mansard - roofed mansion standing alone on the prairie, the dark silhouette of a scarecrow in the field, an enlarged shoot of grain coming up through the soil, a grasshopper chomping a head of wheat, a wine glass under water following a furtive tryst — are charged with emotion and meaning, never there just for effect.

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 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.

And yes, Inspector Lestrade huffs and puffs at the unconventional crime - solver and Mycroft is a furtive figure in the high echelons of the British government.

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.

It's that quick labelling that suggests fear and loathing, of course, but like comrade - in - ideological - arms Neil Labute, Solondz, at his best, mines in his characters this naked, furtive helplessness to the vicissitudes of cruelty and love.

Farrell gives a mannered yet heart - clutching performance, his expressive eyes glimmer, casting furtive glances at Short Sighted Woman (Rachel Weisz)-- none of the characters except David are given names that we learn — and there's longing there, and also treachery and trust in the parity of his gaze.

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.

She's uniquely skilled, it seems, at playing somewhat furtive observer types, given her equally impressive work in Noah Baumbach's Mistress America.

Rylance's character is understandably more distant and mysterious, but while he could have played furtive or cagey, he instead opts to steep Rudolf in quiet dignity.

Everything is in motion: Up and down corridors the characters go, past doors that open a crack or close abruptly, past clockwork chores or furtive, half - glimpsed trysts.

Naishtat, who's 26 and previously attended a fine arts school in France, speaks in monotone and shoots furtive glances left and right while he speaks, like one of the paranoid subjects of his movie.

A master of furtive looks, tones and gestures, he's got the uncanny ability to convey the hidden corners of rage and lust in a normally mild - mannered and always good - hearted guy.

What are we to make of their furtive meetings in diners and by the waterfront?

Heineman seems so wrapped up in the details of capturing his furtive images that he neglects explaining what makes them so compelling.

Table 19 also includes the bride's former nanny, Jo Flanagan (June Squibb), who's genial and nosy and tells charming stories about the bride and her brother; Renzo Eckberg (Tony Revolori), a teenager who came to the reception only after being assured by his mother that he was being seated at the «singles table,» and who seems to have no social skills; and Walter Thimple (Stephen Merchant), one of the strangest characters I've seen in awhile — a sweet, nervous, exceedingly furtive man who lies about everything.

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.

It is a film that speaks its words through glances both furtive and longing, through conversations in door frames, through toy trains and fedoras and santa hats.

He's a successful executive in 1940s New York whose life begins to unbutton when he falls out of love with his wife of many years, Pat (Patricia Clarkson), and into a fine, furtive romance with a younger woman, Kay (Rachel McAdams).

It is a movie about the unspoken moments of desire, the subtle gestures, the furtive glances, and the batted - eyelashes we have to decode when falling in love, but are too deep in a place of vulnerability to play our hand.

After a furtive glance or two in «Avengers: Age of Ultron,» the superheroic couple may be inching closer to a love connection in the new film — while also being pitted against each other in the superhero civil war.

Instead, it's a showcase for Sally Hawkins to give one of the most heartfelt and sincere bad performances since Jodie Foster in «Nell,» all precious furtive glances and mysterious smiling.

Furtive, I say, because the moles are the favorite food of the Jub - Jub Owls, a rare species that hunt hereabouts by night, swooping in the gloaming and snatching unwary moles like an invisible hand.

evo's accounts department checks the receipts far too carefully these days, so we make do with some scorchingly sour Haribo and a furtive look at Playboy in a service station near Strasbourg.

On the freeway outside Marrakech, the feeling of lightness intensified when we hit the gas at 70 mph and made a quick, furtive burst to 100 mph (there are radar cops everywhere in Morocco).

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.

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