Sentences with phrase «many sidelong glances»

If we are raising the question of the basis and meaning of our life as Christians... then this can easily conceal a sidelong glance at what we suppose to be the easier and more comfortable life of other people, who will «also» get to heaven.

As long as I ignored the sidelong glances of my concerned, horrified companions, nothing would stand between me and my coveted french toast.

There will be a brief sidelong glance at a landscape, and then he's drawing it.

For every sidelong glance thrown my way, I've earned a compliment on Instagram.

Thanks so much, Lisa, I've become somewhat impervious to the stares and sidelong glances (at long last) xoxo

If you're yelling about your love for the Yankees at a funeral, for instance, you'll probably earn a few sidelong glances and disapproving looks.

The action of the romance is the film is reduced to slow - motion gestures, sidelong glances, and shared pauses, and, in turn, what we recall of the film is reduced to its essence: We may remember the impossibly rich red of a wall, the undulations of a pot of noodles, the patterns of Mrs. Chan's cheongsams, the smoke of Mr. Chow's cigarette.

After Aitch haltingly admits to Gal that Logan will be arriving shortly from London, it's apparent from the many sidelong glances exchanged by the two couples that extracting the boulder from the pool will be a cakewalk compared to getting rid of Logan.

Director Sebastian Leilo (recently an Oscar winner for last year's A Fantastic Woman) refrains from overplaying the potentially melodramatic material, instead keeping the drama to a series of terse exchanges, sidelong glances, and meaningful faces.

He starts to see a conspiracy forming with every dodged inquiry regarding missed expense reimbursement and a sinister plot behind the eyes of every sidelong glance.

It also drew quite a few sidelong glances, with people probably thinking, «there's a man with a mid-life crisis firmly in his grasp».

Some meet her gaze with a sharp, sidelong glance that pierces the clouds of her memory, and then she remembers them from Saba'ad: he rented out a wheelbarrow, he volunteered at the clinic, he sold goat milk.

Occasionally she catches the sidelong glances he casts her way and can't ignore the fluttering in her stomach when he is around, though he more than intimidates her.

And if you do get a sidelong glance for not dropping your r's, so what?It's a pittance to pay for the pleasure of putting away a plate of Farnham's clams — their gossamerthin cornflour coating crisped to the goldenest of browns, the briny clams firm but moist inside, tasting ineffably of the shallow waterway - slashed landscape just yards beyond the edge of your picnic table.

Horn, seated beside him, gave Kjartansson a sidelong glance.

We give each other sidelong glances as we glide by making mental lists and texting our partners.

Obsidian eyes confront the viewer, from sidelong glances to lens like focus.

As I made my gallery visits I rode up and down with some guy I did not recognize but who seemed to be casting sidelong glances at me.

His career might almost be defined as a series of sidelong glances at the doings of artists like Vito Acconci, Mr. Smithson, Bruce Nauman, Alice Aycock (to whom he was married in the early 1980s) and Claes Oldenburg.

The kids would give me peturbed, sidelong glances.

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Her words and gestures in the picture's second half are rarely significant enough to have subtext, and so while it's a point of identification that we don't know if Marianne's an impostor until Max does, the sidelong suspicious glances he casts at his wife are at best only intellectually relatable.