Sentences with phrase «of furtive»

The narrative composition of your paintings reflect the presence of a furtive third party.

Dash Snow's journey from the life of a furtive underground tagger to the upper - eschelon of New York galleries was uncalculated but no accident.

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

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.

They begin a tense series of furtive glances and curt conversations, both enchanted but unwilling to meet the other halfway.

The performances are compelling... lots of furtive glances and strained interaction.

Not exact matches

The mythos of the rock star would have us believe that there's a clear line that runs from those early furtive moments that young men have lip synching along to...

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

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

I believe that Muhammad was a furtive alcoholic because he dreamed from a paradise with rivers of wine.

Some women are beautiful and confident (Rachel McAdams), and others are furtive and full of self doubt (Noomie Rapace).

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.

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.»

Yet, when condemning the killing of sick and disabled people, the Holy Father also denounces «other more furtive, but no less serious and real, forms of euthanasia.»

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

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-...]

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

And over vast distances, the furtive force of dark energy overrules gravity.

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It's an intricately constructed, good romp of a movie, with a furtive humor that hits the mark like a curve ball.

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.

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.

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.

• A furtive, frustrating camera that refuses to let either Brooke Adams or us get a clear look at Art Hindle the morning after: he's carrying a bag of linty grey debris down to the garbage truck... Invasion of the Body Snatchers...

David Mackenzie brilliantly orchestrates the inner - workings of the cell blocks, effortlessly mapping out the spaces of the prison and the intricate exchanges of contraband, charged looks, furtive glances and hostile stare - downs between the inmates.

That's one of the best things about «Carol,» director Todd Haynes» glittering adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's scandalous 1952 novel «The Price of Salt,» about a furtive love affair between two women.

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.

Winstead lets her eyes do much of the talking, taking full advantage of her natural expressiveness with a buffet of icy stares, furtive glances and faux vulnerability.

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.

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.

But it's more than furtive glances and hands across a shoulder, it's a groundbreaking exploration of mid-century morales and behavior, not of right and wrong...

But none of it would be worth talking about were it not for the impeccable performances by Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung who say more here with silence and furtive glances than most actors do with dialogue over their entire careers.

With the help of a former high - ranking Scientologist, Theroux sets out to understand the furtive goings - on of the Church, armed with his irreverent humor and biting irony.

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.

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.

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.

Those with a high tolerance for whimsy may find moments like these sweet and affecting, since Gosling's gesture represents the furtive beginnings of his return to humanity's embrace.

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.

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).

We just bimble into Scottsdale, the nuggety ride pattering across the bumps, engine barely able to clear its throat, save a furtive and raucous getaway from a set of traffic lights.

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